Elijah Wood & More ‘LOTR’ Stars Support ‘Rings Of Power’ Cast Against Racist Trolls

The archetypal formed of The Lord of the Rings is sticking up for the divers caller tv series. After racist trolls criticized Amazon Prime Video’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power for its formed that includes respective radical of color, Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, and Billy Boyd united to nonstop a wide connection to the haters. The trio, who starred successful the iconic movie franchise, each wore matching achromatic T-shirts, with depictions of the franchise characters’ ears successful assorted tegument tones.

You Are All Welcome Here @LOTRonPrime @DonMarshall72 #RingsOfPower https://t.co/8txOhlHa2f pic.twitter.com/nWytILT0zG

— Elijah Wood (@elijahwood) September 7, 2022

Elijah, 41, shared the photograph of helium and his co-stars to Twitter, with the message, “You Are All Welcome Here.” Elijah stood successful betwixt Dominic, 45, and Billy, 54, and they each smiled astatine the camera with their mouths closed. Elijah besides included a nexus to an online store that sells antithetic articles of covering with the aforesaid visuals that support The Rings of Power.

Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee successful the phantasy movies, wore a achromatic chapeau with the aforesaid graphics of the divers ears successful a photograph helium shared to Twitter. Sean shared the aforesaid connection that his co-stars did, and helium besides included the nexus to the online store.

You are each invited here.#RingsOfPower @LOTRonPrime #MiddleEarth #Samwise @ElijahWood @BillyBoydActor @DomsWildThings @DonMarshall72 https://t.co/w2tdZ4nFwN pic.twitter.com/f4RsBKE9an

— Sean Astin (@SeanAstin) September 7, 2022

Billy Boyd, Elijah Wood, and Dominic Monaghan astatine Billy’s wedding successful December 2010 (Photo: Michael Mcgurk/Shutterstock)

Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power premiered September 1 and features a divers formed that includes Ismael Cruz Cordova, who plays Arondir, Lenny Henry, who plays Sadoc Burrows, and Nazanin Boniadi, who plays Bronwyn. Ahead of the show’s debut, Lenny applauded the show’s producers for its inclusive casting. “I didn’t spot anybody successful complaint of thing that looked similar maine for a precise agelong time, truthful that is lonely,” helium told The Times. “You’ve got each of these radical present saying the aforesaid things that I started saying successful 2000, which is, ‘The manufacture needs to alteration and tin it hurry up, please.’ ”

House of the Dragon, HBO’s new Game of Thrones prequel, has besides been criticized for its divers casting. Whoopi Goldberg was 1 of the archetypal stars successful Hollywood to support the divers casting of some shows and obstruction against the racist trolls.

“I privation to commencement by saying: These are not real,” Whoopi said connected the Sept. 6 occurrence of The View. “There are nary dragons, determination are nary hobbits, and determination are critics who are saying they were excessively woke by adding — yes — divers characters, Are you telling maine Black radical can’t beryllium fake too?’ ” Listen to Whoopi, folks, due to the fact that this disapproval is truthful unwarranted!