His huge following has even come up with stories about him, creating sites such as The Adventures Of Figwit and The Secret Diary Of Figwit.
It's big enough for a New Zealand TV crew to make a documentary about it, and about the two young ladies as they head off to Edinburgh where Bret McKenzie, the NZ actor who played Figwit, has a show in the Fringe.
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Figwit (short for Frodo Is Great, Who Is That) and written him a poem: "Some say he can't talk...