[ SECRET POST #2576 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2576 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

According to Appendix B of LOTR, Frodo was born in 2968 of the Third Age. Frodo leaves the Shire in 3018. He was therefore 50 years old, though that is less for a hobbit than it would be for a human.

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NAYRT

The way I always figured it is that hobbits come of age at 33, so 33 to them is like 21 to us; so 11 hobbit-years is the equivalent of 7 human years, and at 50 a hobbit is the equivalent of a human of about 32 years old.

[ryttu3k]

Yeah, basically. It's additionally complicated by Frodo getting the ring at 33, though, which stopped his aging. At the time of the War of the Ring, Frodo is 50 but looks 33, Pippin is 29, Merry is 36, and Sam is 38. (I think. Not sure of the precise months, aside from Frodo, and Pippin states his age in Minas Tirith.)

They should all look roooughly the same age - probably around the 18-25 range, in Hobbit equivalencies, and with Pippin looking a little younger than Frodo. They got Elijah Wood about right, but the others did look a little too old - more like their characters' chronological age instead of what the human equivalent was. Billy Boyd is probably the most off, given that he was in his mid-thirties when he should have been looking eighteen-ish (although he pulls off Pippin so well it's hard to imagine anyone else, admittedly!).

[(Anonymous)]

Since the One Ring was already in his possession from age 33, couldn't we pretend that this is the reason he looks so young in the movies?

[(Anonymous)]

Makes sense to me.

[(Anonymous)]

But the movies had to compress the timeline, it's intentional or Merry and Pippin would have been way too young

[rbhudson]

...Okay, that doesn't change the fact that they look younger than they are