These are some of the cutest paparazzi photos I’ve seen and I just had to share them. Elijah Wood, 27, was photographed at the Apple Store in LA on Saturday and he looked genuinely pleased to get his photo taken.

Best known for his role as protagonist hobbit Frodo in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Wood has not had as many big screen roles since the series wrapped. He’s done a lot of voiceover work, with a role in animated film Happy Feet and on videogames like “The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon.” He last appeared in The Oxford Murders, a film based on a novel by Argentinian mathematician Guillermo Martínez. Wood plays a graduate student in mathematics who tries to solve serial killings that are being committed using an elusive formula. The film was out in international markets earlier this year.

Last month, Wood appeared in the first episode of the third season of Jack Osbourne’s reality series Adrenaline Junkie. The show airs on UK station ITV2 Wednesdays at 9:00. He set a death-defying world record while taping the show, and was the first person to cross Victoria Falls, the largest waterfalls in the world by some measures, on ropes.

Earlier this year, Wood confirmed that a two part Hobbit film directed by Peter Jackson is in the works. He said he wasn’t sure his character, Frodo, would be involved as the story is “an ancillary tale” but that he would gladly reprise his character as it brings back good memories for him. Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro announced late this summer that they would be writing the Hobbit themselves, and there is buzz that it may be released in Imax format.

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