<P> In 2012, Wood sold his $1.75 million home in Santa Monica, California, purchased a $698,750 home in Austin, Texas - December 3, 2012 . </P> <P> Wood is a music lover, owning a collection of roughly 4,000 vinyl records and CDs . He has cited The Smashing Pumpkins as his favorite band . </P> <P> Wood has a tattoo of the number nine written in the Sindarin language, which uses the Tengwar script, and in the English language (rather than Quenya as is widely believed), below his waist on the right side . It refers to his character as one of the Fellowship of the Ring . By coincidence, he had a voice role in a film titled 9 . The other actors of "The Fellowship" got the same tattoo, with the exception of John Rhys - Davies, whose stunt double got the tattoo instead . </P> <P> In May 2006, Autograph Collector Magazine published its list of 10 Best & 10 Worst Hollywood Autograph Signers; Wood was ranked #7 of Best Signers . </P>

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