WampusCat wrote:Tennant, Frodo, Bean, Rickman ...
time for a cold shower.
Heh.
(Somehow I doubt that Tolkien ever intended for Frodo to be included in a list like that. Tough! I've always had a thing for Frodo.)
Or, as one friend of mine put it, "do you suppose that Tolkien ever imagined that people would one day think Frodo Baggins = sex god"? Or, as I used to call Movie Frodo, the Renaissance Angel Hobbit.
I don't think he (Tolkien) could ever have imagined such a thing.
Impenitent wrote:I recognise that film-Frodo did an excellent and convincing job, but I can't say I ever felt for him the way I do about the Frodo I've loved since my teens, the one Tolkien wrote.
I never had any complaint about Movie Frodo's looks.
Movie Frodo has the purity and spiritual nature of Frodo, but not quite the steel and certainly not the maturity of Book Frodo, whom I love.
Rickman as Valmont would have been devastating! I mean, the man is the bomb, right? He is the bomb. Blows them all out of the water.
Oh, he's the bomb. THE BOMB.
*wonders who Alan could have played in the LotR films*
Clarissa I read at the age of 17 - perfect age to become completely immersed in that story of innocence tempted and the subsquent betrayal suffered and fall from grace. Long and sprawling is right, but I loved it.
Yes, I read some great books at 17 ... all that rites of passage stuff ...
I have osgiliated my own thread with a vengeance, but well, it's MY thread.
"Frodo undertook his quest out of love - to save the world he knew from disaster at his own expense, if he could ... "
Letter no. 246, The Collected Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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