Did you know that Pippin was actually the oldest hobbit actor in real life? 🤯 Watching the immortal elves and wizards of Middle Earth blow out their birthday candles and turn into real humans 27 years later is the ultimate reality check. As the smoke clears, seeing Elijah Wood as Frodo and Ian McKellen's Gandalf morph into their 2026 ages is pure movie magic. The then and now aging transformations of Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom as Legolas, and the rest of the Fellowship prove that even legen