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Elijah Wood's hobbit porn shock
Last updated 08 June 2004

What happens when the LOTR actors are confronted with their "online secret lives"?

'Lord of the Rings' star Elijah Wood got a bit of a shock at a press conference in the Czech Republic.

He was answering questions about his new film, an adaptation of the book 'Everything is Illuminated', when a fan wandered up to him and handed him an envelope.

It had written on the front that Elijah should sit down whilst opening the envelope, and inside was a photo. Here's how he reacted:

"Oh... that is so wrong! Oh...that is hilarious! There are some scary things on the internet."

"I don't know if you guys know about this. There are these websites that have pictures of various actors in 'Lord of the Rings' in homosexual positions, and that's one of the pictures that they just gave me."

"The frightening thing about it is they all look a little too real. So you kind of look at it and you're like 'I didn't do that... did I?'"