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[The Lord of the Rings]

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[The 100]

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[The Lord of the Rings]

Wow, shortest fingernails I've ever seen.

He probably just cuts them very short.

Maybe, but they don't look cut short to me, given how far back from the tip they've shrunk. If they were just cut short I think the quick would still probably be longer/end closer to the fingertips.

As someone who bit her nails constantly since childhood up until a few years ago, biting constantly at any bit of white that shows and not letting your nails ever get long enough to warrant being clipped is what causes the quick part of the nail to retreat back farther and father from the fingertips. This takes time to reverse (several months at least) when you stop biting them.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-03-12 02:31 (UTC) - Expand

(Anonymous) - 2016-03-12 02:34 (UTC) - Expand

I noticed that too! I guess they must be Elijah Wood's real nails, if they were using a hand model for those shots I'd expect they'd pick someone with less unusual fingernails (since they're focusing on the Ring.)

I always thought this was intentional; a visual representation of the character's deteriorated health and the hardships of the journey. I'd be really put off by nice looking nails here, tbh.

Like how the characters in Lost managed to have nice white teeth and access to razors all the time. Immersion lost in 0.03 seconds.

I WOULD agree with your interpretation, but he already has those chewed down nails early in the movie. Definitely at the scene where the hobbits hide from the ringwraith under the tree, if not even earlier. But maybe it was more of a "throw it in" thing for the directing team - like, "wow these nails are pretty gnarly...but that's good because it makes sense."

herpymcderp - 2016-03-12 00:09 (UTC) - Expand

Wow...never noticed that, but now I won't be able to unsee the next time I watch. I wonder if those are Elijah Wood's hands or someone else's?

Maybe it's a subtle way of showing his anxiety over the quest? Unless his nails are already that short at the beginning of the movie...

They're Elijah's. He does bite them, it's in the special features or commentary somewhere.

Huh, that's what mine look like. And yes, I've been a nervous chewer for 30+ years

LOL poor Frodo. Elijah Wood is a terrible nailbiter, or at least he was at the time. They talked about it somewhere in the extras or commentaries or zillion articles I read about the hobbits during that era.

Yeah, I distinctly remember at least one interview where he was super embarrassed about his gross nails, poor dude. But hey, I'm a lifelong biter myself, so I can relate.

tabaqui - 2016-03-12 03:54 (UTC) - Expand

I'd be stress-chewing them too

I remember sitting in the theater and noticing how chewed up his hands were and thinking props for authenticity.

Yikes, those look painful.

I always noticed it too, but I liked it as a character detail. Of course his nails are gonna be worn down and gross after going through all that nonsense.

I KNOW! I've always noticed that. It makes my fingers hurt to look at them.

(Anonymous) - 2016-03-12 01:08 (UTC) - Expand

I can't get past Hobbit feet. I feel bad about it. But I feel like I would enjoy the Hobbit characters more if not for their feet.

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philstar22 - 2016-03-12 01:07 (UTC) - Expand

My nails look like that and I've been biting them for as long as I can remember. In fact, they look a little shorter than his because today was a bad day and my nail-biting's anxiety-driven.

That always bugged me too, OP.

Aaaah his fingernails remind me of when I used to bite my nails constantly, which I did for YEARS (from the age of 5 to the age of 19) to the point where I literally never had more than a teeny fragment of white showing for several years on end, couldn't even remember what my fingers looked like with whites on their nails.

Then my dad showed me a picture of an infected hand from a bitten nail and I stopped dead right there and then. Never bit them again. In fact now after having unbitten nails for a few years my teeth kind of get set on edge at the thought of biting my nails, and I can't believe how weird it would feel to live without whites on my nails, so these kind of pictures or scenes in movies with actors who have such bitten nails always make me feel kinda squirmy and uncomfortable now.

They look like my dad's fingernails. He's chewed his nails since he was a toddler and now he's 70.

Isn't he from a farming community though? Having grown up on a farm, your nails break (though probably wouldn't be that short) and your hands are dirty all the time.

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(Anonymous) - 2016-03-12 07:23 (UTC) - Expand

it fits the character

Yes, it was always very noticable for me too, OP.
But I figured that would be normal for Hobbits. They had some sophisticated tools etc, but tiny nails scissors or cutters might not have been a thing. Most people in those societies would have bitten? That's what I thought, anyway.

But to know they are Elijah Wood's own nails? Oh dear. I'm so glad I used that ghastly nail paint stuff for months when I was a kid until I really, really stopped. Took aaaages to lose the habit.