[ SECRET POST #3486 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3486 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So was Frodo in the book. He got prettified. Awful warning.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, people who recieve the ring mostly stop aging at the point they get it. Frodo got the ring when he was 33 (which is early 20s in hobbit years) and basically stopped aging when he did so. Bilbo was alreadt 50 when he got the ring (about 40 in hobbit years) and stopped aging at that point instead. It's an actual plot point in the book.

So technically, he wasn't made to look that much younger than he was supposed to canonically look (prettier is a different matter.)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

That logic works if the movies had not compressed the timeline and implied that it was a lot less than 17 years between the party and setting out from the Shire.

[(Anonymous)]

Plus, I think the movies compressed the time between Frodo getting the ring the night of the party and when he and Sam set off. The other three hobbits don't age in that gap either and the movie doesn't do anything to indicate years passed. You can say they kept Frodo at the age he was supposed to be when he first got the ring and they made Sam, Merry, and Pippin already be roughly the ages they would have been later on, had they kept the years-long time jump.

[type_wild]

I'll have to admit that the young Frodo works in the films, probably becauses he's introduced as Bilbo's young junior from the get-go.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure Frodo was supposed to be a "young man"? I mean, yeah, they could've made him look older than Merry and Pippin, but frankly, I thought it worked. They were kind of going for that whole pure-heart naivety gets run through the muck in the face of ultimate evil thing.

[type_wild]

IIRC he was fifty-ish when he left the Shire in the book.

[(Anonymous)]

Hobbits do age differently from humans, if I recall correctly that's meant to be like... Early 30s in human terms?

[type_wild]

Thirty-something, at least, but there's still a lot of growing up happening between Elijah Wood's portrayal of him and the age he was in the book (oldest of the hobbits by far, to mention just one thing)

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, but it's more like mid-30s to early 20s, which sounds a lot less dramatic.

I do think Wood was too young, just saying, it's not so dramatic as all that.

TBH I do mentally picture Frodo with a receding hairline.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Adulthood for hobbits is 33 - I presume that to be equivalent of 21, because of the era Tolkien was writing in (i.e. before age of majority was moved down to 18). Keep in mind there are plenty of actors around showbiz who don't look "old" in their mid thirties and apply that concept to 50-year-old Frodo. He doesn't need a receding hairline, but he might look more mature than Elijah Wood did.

My beef with the movies is that Merry and Pippin were adults at the birthday party, but that's linked into the the removal of those intervening 17 years. Merry and Pippin would have been young children at the party, if one goes by book ages, dates and uncompressed timeline.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I mostly agree with you. I'm not saying that Frodo would have to have a receding hairline to be realistic in terms of age. I just picture him that way. It's just some weird headcanon I have. Very specific physical appearance.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Okay, yeah.

That does make me think that there are men who have receding hairlines even at 21. I have an impression my Dad did (he's been bald on top in all my memory).