The Lord of the Rings: The stars of the films come together again

US actor Josh Gad (39) brings the stars from "The Lord of the Rings" back together for his "Reunited Apart" YouTube show. Elijah Wood (39, Frodo), Sean Astin (49, Samweis), Orlando Bloom (43, Legolas), Dominic Monaghan (43, Merry), Billy Boyd (51, Pippin) and Ian dive into a short teaser for the upcoming episode McKellen (81, Gandalf) on a video call.

And the actors are obviously not the only "Lord of the Rings" actors who will be in the reunion special. Gad promised "many surprises" and Monaghan has already shown some more famous faces on Instagram. For an announcement of the show, which runs on Sunday, he posted a picture from the video conference: Sean Bean (Boromir), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn), John Rhys-Davies (Gimli ) or Liv Tyler (Arwen). Even director Peter Jackson is probably honored.

Gandalf is back

Wood and McKellen already gave a little foretaste of what fans could expect in the teaser when they reproduced some of the famous words from the film series: "I wish none of this would ever have happened," Wood quotes his character Frodo as "Gandalf "McKellen added in the video call and replied:" Everyone who experiences such times does it, but it is not in their power to decide. We just have to decide what we want to do with the time that is given to us. "