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‘The Lord of the Rings’ Cast Honors Bernard Hill: ‘We Lost a Member of Our Family’

'The Lord of the Rings' cast — including Elijah Wood and Billy Boyd — paid tribute to Bernard Hill, who died at age 79 Sunday.

Lord of the Rings cast members paid tribute to late costar Bernard Hill at the Liverpool Comic Con event over the weekend. Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, and Sean Astin, who played the four Hobbits in the fantasy franchise, said they had lost a member of their family. Monaghan, who played Merry, made a post on Instagram Sunday in Hill’s memory, writing in a caption “The Broken king has passed to the grey havens but he will always be remembered.”

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