There are plenty of blockbusters coming from big franchises in the next few years, but perhaps none are as exciting as The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum. Little was known about The Hunt for Gollum at the time it was announced in 2024, other than Andy Serkis would return to star as Gollum and direct the film. A few weeks ago at CinemaCon, Warner Bros. officially announced The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, which was a double-edged sword. While exciting, it confirmed the fear that Viggo Mortensen would not reprise his role as Aragorn in the film with **Jamie Dornan **taking over the role. Other cast members include Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Elijah Wood as Frodo, **Leo Woodall **as Halvard, Lee Pace as Thranduil, and Kate Winslet as Marigol.

One of the stars from the original Lord of the Rings movie who is not yet confirmed to have a role in The Hunt for Gollum is Billy Boyd, who portrayed the beloved Peregrin Took in all three Peter Jackson-directed films of the early 2000s. Collider’s Maggie Lovitt recently moderated a Calgary Expo panel for Boyd and his co-star, Gimli actor John Rhys-Davies, where they both confirmed they knew Wood and McKellen were coming back as Frodo and Gandalf long before it was announced. When asked if it was hard to keep the secret, Boyd shrugged it off, “Oh, it’s quite easy. I forgot a lot,” he said with a laugh. He then spoke about how happy he is to see the franchise return, even if he’s not going to be part of it:

“I think I’m just happy that they’re looking into that universe again. And then it should be the right characters to tell the story. I think it’s great. And it’s great that Andy’s the one doing it. He’s a great artist, a great actor, and I think he’ll do a wonderful job in the film. I’m excited to see where it goes.”

The scores below reveal your true character. Your highest number is your match. Even a tie tells a story — the Fellowship was never made of simple people.

You carry something heavy — and you carry it alone, even when you don’t have to. You were not born for greatness, and that is precisely why greatness chose you. Your courage is not the roaring, sword-swinging kind; it is quiet, stubborn, and terrifying in its refusal to quit. The Ring weighs on you more than anyone can see, and still you walk toward the fire. That is not weakness. That is the rarest kind of strength there is.

You are, without question, the best of them. Not the most powerful, not the most celebrated — but the most essential. Your loyalty is not a trait; it is a force of nature. You would carry the person you love up the slopes of Mount Doom if it came to that, and we both know you’d do it without being asked. The world needs more people like you, and the world is lucky it has even one.

You were born to lead, and you have spent years running from it. The crown is yours by right, but you know better than anyone that right means nothing without the will and the worthiness to back it up. You are tempered by loss, shaped by long roads, and defined by a code of honour you hold to even when no one is watching. When you finally step forward, the world shifts. Because it was always waiting for you.

You have seen more than you let on, and you say less than you know — which is exactly as it should be. You are a catalyst: you do not fight the battles yourself, you ignite the people who can. Your wisdom comes not from books but from an age of watching what happens when it is ignored. You arrive precisely when you mean to, and your presence alone changes what is possible. A wizard is never late.

Graceful, perceptive, and almost preternaturally calm under pressure — you see things others miss and act before others react. You do not need to make a scene to be remarkable; your presence speaks for itself. You are loyal to those you choose to stand beside, and that choice is not made lightly. You have lived long enough to know that the most beautiful things in this world are also the most fragile, and that is why you fight to protect them.

You are loud, proud, and absolutely formidable — and beneath all of that is one of the most fiercely loyal hearts in Middle-earth. You don’t do anything by half measures. Your friendships are forged like iron, your grudges run as deep as mines, and your courage in battle is the kind that makes legends. You came into this fellowship suspicious of everyone and ended it willing to die for an elf. That is not a small thing. That is everything.

You think in centuries and act in absolutes. Order, dominion, control — not because you are cruel by nature, but because you have decided that the world left to itself always falls apart, and you are the only one with the vision and the will to hold it together. You were not always this. Something was lost, or taken, or betrayed, and the version of you that stands now is the answer to that wound. The tragedy is that you’re not entirely wrong — just entirely too far gone to course-correct.

You are a study in contradiction — pitiable and dangerous, cunning and broken, capable of both cruelty and something that once resembled love. You are defined by loss: of innocence, of self, of the one thing that gave your existence meaning. Two voices war inside you constantly, and the tragedy is that the better one sometimes wins, just not often enough, and never at the right moment. You are a warning, yes — but also a mirror. We are all a little Gollum, given the right ring and enough time.

Billy Boyd may not get the chance to reprise his role in The Hunt for Gollum, but he will return in a new Lord of the Rings movie that was confirmed not long ago. News broke earlier this year that popular late-night show host and famous Tolkien head Stephen Colbert is writing a new Lord of the Rings movie, Shadow of the Past, that will be set 14 years after Frodo’s passing. It will follow Sam, Merry, and Pippin as they set out to retrace the first steps of their adventure while Sam’s daughter, Elanor, sets out on a quest of her own. Sean Astin and Dominic Monaghan will return as Sam and Merry opposite Boyd, and Colbert is writing the script with **Peter McGee **and Philippa Boyens.

While Boyd declined to share any new details about the film, he did share a fun story about his trip on Colbert’s late show with Dominic Monaghan, where they finally stumped Colbert on something Tolkien-related he didn’t know. About the interaction, Boyd said, “As you all know, Stephen Colbert is a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. He told me he reads some part of it every day. Dom [Monaghan] and I were going on his show to promote our podcast, and they asked us to prep a question for Stephen… I figured a place name would be good — Stephen knows all the places in Lord of the Rings.”

Continuing, he said, “Dom came up with one about the spider, and I thought to myself, ‘Oh, that sounds difficult… I don’t even know that.’ The producers asked what question we were going to ask, and I started to tell them, but Dom stopped me, ‘No, don’t tell them… We want it to be real.” The question they settled on was asking where in the Fangorn Forest the Ents held Entmoot. “I could see it in Stephen’s eyes,” Boyd said. “He almost had it. He even took his glasses off. You could tell it was somewhere in his brain… but he couldn’t quite get there. And then I realized — I was the first person to stump Stephen Colbert.”

Stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of *The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum *and Shadow of the Past.

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