[ SECRET POSt #2491 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2491 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[0nemoresoul2thecall]


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03.
[Attack on Titan]


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[The Hobbit]


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05.
[South Park/The Place Beyond The Pines]


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06.
[One Piece]


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07.
[Chess the Musical]


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08.
[Horatio Hornblower]


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09.
[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]

















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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get why people are watching the movie and shipping it. I don't particularly ship it myself, but I'd be up for reading it if most of what I come across wasn't just unbelievably out of character. Bilbo is a middle-aged dude, not some young, delicate flower. And that's if they even let him be a dude; I've never seen so much gender-bending-to-turn-it-into-a-het-ship as in this fandom (and that goes for Bofur/Bilbo too, my movie ship of choice). Which is fine, if it's your thing, but I'm just not interested (genderbent everyone is a different story).

Of course, it's possible I've just been unlucky and only come across the worst that's out there. In any case, blacklisting 'bagginshield' was one of my better decisions.

[fingalsanteater]

I thought Bilbo was still in the young adult stage since hobbits live longer than humans?

[(Anonymous)]

Hobbits were considered adults at 33; Bilbo was 50 at the time of The Hobbit, so he would probably be considered close to or just approaching middle age. While Bilbo himself proved to be very long-lived, he was the exception; hobbit life-span was just slightly longer than men (I want to say 95-100 was about the average).

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Frodo was a young adult, though probably would have seemed a bit older than he did in the Lord of the Rings movies. Bilbo was much closer to middle age.

[(Anonymous)]

Frodo is a young adult at the beginning of LotR (turning 33 on the day of the Long Expected Party) but, like Bilbo, he's actually 50 when he destroys the Ring. He wasn't a young wide-eyed innocent in the book, which I think is one of the huge differences with the book.

[fingalsanteater]

Ah, okay. I guess I was thinking he was closer to Frodo's age when he started his journey.

[(Anonymous)]

The irony is, he's supposed to be, but PJ&Co. wanted someone endearing for Frodo, so we go the wide-eyed 19-yr-old that was Elijah Wood.

In the book, Frodo ended up leaving the Shire right after his 50th birthday, and a notable point was made about him going on a quest at the same age Bilbo did. Movieverse gave a string impression of compressed timeline.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it might have been hard to get an actor who could portray both ages right since he does start out the book as 33. Although it might have been better to go older even with the time compression.

[(Anonymous)]

No, you're right. Frodo was 33, but 33 isn't the same in Hobbit years as it is in human years, it's the hobbit "coming of age". So Elijah Wood's look/chronological age is fairly close.

[(Anonymous)]

In the beginning of the book, yes (though I'd still say Elijah little young), but he's about 50 by the time the actual journey starts.