[Music] a lucky restaurant was hopping with Hobbits when three Lord of the Rings franchise Stars recently held a mini cast reunion over drinks and a meal in a sweet Instagram post on Sunday LR series actor Dominic Monahan shared a photo of himself seated at a table with his fellow Stars Elijah Wood and Billy Boyd all of whom played Hobbits in director Peter Jackson's oscar-winning Blockbuster adaptations of JRR tol keen's beloved fantasy novels some things never change Monahan wrote in the image's caption alongside his friends lifting their drinks for a toast the reunion came 23 years after the trio first appeared in The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001 they would go on a co-star in all three of Jackson's lodr projects also including 2002's the two towers and 2003s the Return of the King which won picture and 10 other statuettes at the 2004 Oscars it also followed another cast reunion that wood Monahan and Boyd shared with aoar star Orlando Bloom who played the elf legol list in all three films in May three Hobbits and an elf and the conversation tonight was vaulted Monahan captioned a shot of the forsome at the time would led the movie series as froto baggin who inherits the titular ring from his uncle billbo and embarks on a quest with with help from other Hobbits like Monahan's Mary and Boyd's Pippen to destroy it in May Warner Brothers announced that a slate of two new Lord of the Rings movies would feature Jackson returning as producer alongside longtime collaborators Fran Walsh and Philipa buens signaling a continuation of the franchise on the big screen Jackson earlier expanded on the story with a hobbit prequel trilogy following Martin Freeman as Bilbo on the small screen Amazon launched season 2 of its lord of the Rings the rings of power TV series on Thursday we're also going to be the fans taking in what I know even without having seen it is the most epic battle sequence that we have coming up for season 2 Star Cynthia D Robinson told Entertainment Weekly in a preview of new episodes it feels really cinematic this season you know in the first season that was the case as well but I just think we've got to top ourselves and I feel like we've done that so I'm excited just to watch it myself