{"id":867853,"date":"2026-08-25T12:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867853\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:30:15","slug":"lord-of-the-rings-reunion-sets-dominic-monaghan-elijah-wood-at-ccxp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/867853\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord of the Rings Reunion Sets Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood at CCXP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFrodo and Merry are plotting new adventures to honor the 25th anniversary of the Lord of the Rings<\/a> film franchise. <\/p>\n

\n\tDominic Monaghan<\/a> is the second confirmed guest for the forthcoming CCXP26 fan event that takes place later this year in S\u00e3o Paulo,\u00a0Brazil<\/a>, following the previous announcement<\/a> that Elijah Wood<\/a>, aka Frodo Baggins himself, will attend. With the theme of \u201cFellowship Forever,\u201d this year\u2019s CCXP is held Dec. 3-6, and its full lineup will be announced soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMonaghan made his feature acting debut as Meriadoc \u201cMerry\u201d Brandybuck in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which was released in theaters Dec. 19, 2001, and also starred Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom. Based on the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien, the New Line movie was the first in director Peter Jackson<\/a>\u2018s trilogy that collectively surpassed $2.9 billion at the global box office and scored 17 Oscars.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCCXP has a tradition of bringing together the iconic names who have shaped pop culture history, and Fellowship Forever is the celebration that\u00a0The Lord of the Rings\u00a0fans truly deserved. Having Merry alongside Frodo on the CCXP26 stage is one of those moments that captures the very essence of the festival \u2014 epic, in the most literal sense of the word,\u201d says CCXP vp of content Roberto Fabri.<\/p>\n

\n\tMonaghan returns to CCXP after attending last year\u2019s edition, where he participated in panels and met with fans for autographs and photos. The British actor is also known for playing Charlie on Lost, along with his roles in the Star Wars and X-Men franchises. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast year\u2019s CCXP included a viral moment when Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet showed off his\u00a0dance moves to \u201cCrank That (Soulja Boy)\u201d<\/a>\u00a0while promoting his film\u00a0Marty Supreme.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther notable presentations in 2025 included a\u00a0Supernatural\u00a0reunion<\/a>; conversations with such stars as Kathryn Newton, Selton Mello and\u00a0Game of Thrones standout Tom Wlaschiha; and panels for projects like\u00a0It: Welcome to Derry<\/a>,\u00a0The Boys,\u00a0A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,\u00a0Anaconda,\u00a0The Secret Agent\u00a0and\u00a0Percy Jackson and the Olympians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frodo and Merry are plotting new adventures to honor the 25th anniversary of the Lord of the Rings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,11308,447,436719,59307,134,3389,20753,20752],"class_list":["post-867853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brazil","tag-celebrities","tag-dominic-monaghan","tag-elijah-wood","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-peter-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}