MATAMATA, New Zealand — A couple tying the knot in a "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" themed wedding had an unexpected guest crash the ceremony.

The wedding, hosted at The Hobbiton Movie Set in Matamata, New Zealand, was briefly interrupted when "Lord of the Rings" star Elijah Wood walked up and congratulated Sharik and Jessica Burgess-Stride.

The couple was finishing up some wedding paperwork when all of a sudden they heard the voice of Frodo Baggins the Hobbit.

"At first I thought ‘nah that’s not him,' then ‘oh (expletive), it is him,'" Sharik Burgess-Stride told the Waikato Herald .

In video captured by their wedding photographer and the location hosts, Wood quietly snuck his way onto the lush grass behind the wedding attendees, all dawned in cloaks and other "Lord of the

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