--- title: Elijah Wood Riding a Scooter Photo Becomes HIlarious Meme description: A photo of Elijah Wood riding a scooter in Austin became an instant meme supplying the internet with endless laughter. canonical: https://time.com/5407405/elijah-wood-meme/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-26T20:11:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:07.388Z og:title: Elijah Wood Casually Rides Atop Scooter Into Meme Status og:description: As one does og:url: https://time.com/5407405/elijah-wood-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt387a231d8c0f4dea/69893b33096a940c8f6a38c9/elijahwoodbecomesmeme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Los Angeles Special Screening And Q&A Of "Mandy" At Beyond Fest - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Elijah Wood Casually Rides Atop Scooter Into Meme Status twitter:description: As one does twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt387a231d8c0f4dea/69893b33096a940c8f6a38c9/elijahwoodbecomesmeme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Elijah Wood Casually Rides Atop Scooter Into Meme Status > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic) Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 26, 2018 8:11 PM UTC [_Lord of the Rings_](http://time.com/5376610/fall-of-gondolin-jrr-tolkien/) star [Elijah Wood](http://time.com/4547843/elijah-wood-on-daniel-radcliffe-doppelganger/) confirmed that he’s living his best, most unbothered life when an image of him cheerfully riding a motorized scooter surfaced on Twitter this week. The photo, which was [posted on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Massawyrm/status/1044375635366432768) by writer C. Robert Cargill, shows Wood en route to somewhere exciting while in town in Austin, Texas, where Wood’s production company SpectreVision is showing their virtual reality game _Transference_at [Fantastic Fest](https://fantasticfest.com/about), the largest genre film festival in the United States specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action. As might be expected, the Internet instantly fell in love with the light-hearted photo of Wood and wasted no time in promoting it to meme status. Fan sounded off on social media with plenty of good-natured ribbing about Wood and his rental scooter — and if you’re wondering, yes, plenty of _Lord of the Rings_ and Frodo jokes were made. See the best memes and jokes about Elijah Wood’s Austin scooter ride below. > [](https://twitter.com/rumpfshaker/status/1045031435730587648) > [](https://twitter.com/gavinfckr/status/1044853442295070720) > [](https://twitter.com/NeilaK20/status/1045018496059494400) > [](https://twitter.com/seancofficial/status/1044818959479050241) > [](https://twitter.com/JustinQuizon/status/1044638821210443776) > [](https://twitter.com/WillRinehart/status/1044999812570140674) > [](https://twitter.com/NickdeSemlyen/status/1044610857345470464) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5407405/elijah-wood-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5407405/elijah-wood-meme/"},"headline":"Elijah Wood Casually Rides Atop Scooter Into Meme Status","datePublished":"2018-09-26T20:11:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:07.388Z","description":"As one does","url":"https://time.com/5407405/elijah-wood-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt387a231d8c0f4dea/69893b33096a940c8f6a38c9/elijahwoodbecomesmeme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt387a231d8c0f4dea/69893b33096a940c8f6a38c9/elijahwoodbecomesmeme.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Los Angeles Special Screening And Q&A Of \"Mandy\" At Beyond Fest - Arrivals","caption":"Los Angeles Special Screening And Q&A Of \"Mandy\" At Beyond Fest - Arrivals","creditText":"Paul Archuleta—FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5407405/elijah-wood-meme/","name":"Elijah Wood Casually Rides Atop Scooter Into Meme Status"}}]}] ```