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Cont'd. from the previous entry....
Note: once again I brightened and sharpened these images.
Here is an unretouched frame from the sequence:
Frodo has begun to fiddle with the Ring, the camera watching his hands turn it about in close-up. The voice of the Ring begins to be heard, whispering, "Baggins, Baggins...."
At first Frodo relaxes at the sound of it, as if falling into a trance....
The camera moves closer. His face has begun to sweat:
Tension begins to show, as if Frodo is sensing and feeling something less than pleasant.
Suddenly, over the top of the chant-like whispering of his name, Pippin's voice is heard calling out, "Baggins" -- the name which was not to be uttered outside of the Shire.
In extreme close-up, Frodo winces. The sound seems to recall him, dragging him back to consciousness:
~ To be cont'd...
For the next Bree screencap entry click HERE.
Click HERE for table of other Frodo [and Elijah Wood] screencaps.
~ Mechtild
Note: once again I brightened and sharpened these images.
Here is an unretouched frame from the sequence:
Frodo has begun to fiddle with the Ring, the camera watching his hands turn it about in close-up. The voice of the Ring begins to be heard, whispering, "Baggins, Baggins...."
At first Frodo relaxes at the sound of it, as if falling into a trance....
The camera moves closer. His face has begun to sweat:
Tension begins to show, as if Frodo is sensing and feeling something less than pleasant.
Suddenly, over the top of the chant-like whispering of his name, Pippin's voice is heard calling out, "Baggins" -- the name which was not to be uttered outside of the Shire.
In extreme close-up, Frodo winces. The sound seems to recall him, dragging him back to consciousness:
~ To be cont'd...
For the next Bree screencap entry click HERE.
Click HERE for table of other Frodo [and Elijah Wood] screencaps.
~ Mechtild
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I was agreeing with Este in the previous entry about the darkness of his eyes, "deep, dark, fathomless pools," she thought they looked. I agreed, his eyes are so dark in most of the frames they could be brown or black. Only in these last close-ups can one see they are blue, and only because I brightened them. Its a very, very intense effect, with the emotion zinging out of them.
Yes, the make-up is done beautifully. Once I lightened them I could just see with my theatre-person's eye the touch of colour on the cheeks and the darker stuff on the upper lids. It was perfect. I felt all swoony imagining myself the make-up artist, lucky soul.
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Really, is there anything more astonishingly beautiful than Frodo in Bree?
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You wench. :D
*Promptly joins you*
Really, is there anything more astonishingly beautiful than Frodo in Bree?
No, no, no, not in all of Eru's good Arda.
Ohmygawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwdohmylordyhubbahubbaguhguhguhguh.
*collapses into complete incoherency*
It's not Elijah I see here. It's Frodo.
(Which just goes to show what amazing things Elijah did with this role.)
GUUUUUUUUH.
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If you'll scroll down, you'll see I was amazed when I first saw the actor EW on the FotR DVD extras. What a shock! Not that I didn't like him, but how completely different he was! And it wasn't just the wig, costume and make-up (although they really do make quite a difference).
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I mentioned below the voice. Unfortunately, I can't do "voice caps," but I swooooooon for Frodo's vocal delivery, too. EW speaking as himself does nothing for me (except that he's obviously smart and endearing). It's the soft, light-baritone tone of Frodo's reflective, melodious delivery that is music to mine ear. As Keats said of someone else,
My ear is open like a greedy shark,
To catch the tunings of a voice divine.
Yeah....
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I might have known. You certainly were profuse! Are you sure that's spit?
Really, is there anything more astonishingly beautiful than Frodo in Bree?
No. At least, I'll agree until I get to some other scene and begin swooning over that one. But I think you are right: the sheer drama of the lighting in Bree brings out one of his best looks. Not to mention extended frames of him with his eyes closed. *sigh*
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As a sometime Faculty member, I find attention to detail is important. *licks way around to that cute angle of his jawline*
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And his eyelashes!!
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I agree. His face, even for film Frodo, is notably child-like in the extreme closeness. The proportion accentuates the look of a child's face: a small lower part of the face and huge eyes and brow (under the mop of hair), not to mention the extremely tender cheeks.
And the eyelashes! I just said to Mariole, one of the thrills of this series is the number of frames with his eyes closed. Oh, moan for such loveliness!
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Oh, my poor heart, please keep on beating!
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Ah, don't we love it? *heart beat quickens*
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Someone wrote in one of the threads at KD:
'Elijah/Frolijah is proof that God loves us.'
I am in full agreement.
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You have hit something major, there, which I often forget. He's acting! Elijah Wood's not "really" Frodo, somehow compelled to come and be photographed for this film. One of the shocks and pleasures of first watching the FotR EE DVD extras (since I wasn't in the fandom when it came out theatrically and I had seen NONE of the materials on TV or in the extras for the theatrical DVD), was how different the real EW was from the character he created.
I'd just finished sobbing and swooning over this sublimely, otherworldly-gorgeous hobbit prince of a hero, and here's this American kid with rumpled hair slouching around his trailer, flipping through CD's and yukking it up with fellow cast members, every other word bleeped (and spoken in American diction), in a voice half an octave higher than his film voice. What a moment of cognitive and aesthetic dissonance!
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He's not real?
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I think the trend to be reduced to mumbling and speechlessness if running rampant here. :D
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Not Alone, I think that, too. In fact, when I was panting for RotK's release in theatres, I kept worrying when I had to go on a trip or take the plane: "What if I die before I get to see it? Please don't let that happen!!!!"
I plan to post the last set of this series tonight. Actually there are fewer caps on that page than the other set, but they are still worth looking at.
Curmudgeonly old swooner: "If Frodo's worth looking at, his screencaps are worth looking at!"
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"I kept worrying when I had to go on a trip or take the plane: "What if I die before I get to see it? Please don't let that happen!!!!"
I was exactly the same!! After FOTR the third film seemed so far off & I kept thinking "What if ..." Thankfully we both made it:)
I spent most of Sat evening looking back at many of your previous screencaps and reading the wonderful discussions that ensued - and a very pleasant few hours it was too!! Sometimes I wonder ... does he know? When he sees himself up there on the screen as Frodo - does he know how beautiful he is? I would love to know what thoughts go through his head but have to accept I never will. Not exactly the kind of question you can ask him when you get your few minutes at a con - "er Elijah - do you know how beautiful you are"? :D
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I think EW has to know how "cute" so many people think he is. He's been though irresistibly cute and engaging since he first walked on a stage as a child, according to his first agent. But as for "beautiful," he strikes me as a humble person, even about his looks. If he read about us swooning over his pictures from LotR, I am betting he would smile and say, "Ah, but it's Frodo whom they think is beautiful, it's not really me." And he'd be right, if I were consulted. Elijah has a very striking face that is very attractive and even beautiful but he really can make himself look like anything from Hollywood classic to absolutely goony. But EW as Frodo was sheer, take-your-breath-away beauty.
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Looking at the first caps, for the first time I noticed something I hadn't before, that his right eyelid is drooping more quickly than the left. How adorable.
*sighs and moans* *joins you all in the licking*
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Actually, that is a good note (about the eyelid.) Taerie pointed out to me in a post in the autumn that EW's two eyes are different. Many people's are, she noted, and his are no exception. She said (she's an artist) that an imperfect match between the sides of a face are what make it interesting.
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Your screencaps make me sigh, those eyes and those lashes. So gorgeous, the Bree scene is one of my favourite Frodo scene.
Thank you sweetheart for those lovely screencaps ((((hugs))))
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No wonder LotR fans went nuts over FotR. I am so sorry I didn't bother to see it until it was on video (too stuck-up, sure it couldn't be a good film), and sorrier still that I didn't start trying to figure out the internet and messageboards until RotK was about to come out. I missed A LOT.
Ah, those lashes! *sigh*
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I watched the DVD's (missed the movies at the theatre) I can't count how much and I will never get rid of them. never. I'm addicted to the books for about almost 30 years and I'm still reading them. And the movies are incredible. When I saw the Fellowship first I was near a heart attack - Frodo got a face, and isn't Elijah THE perfect Frodo?
I came here last February and I missed a lot too. looking here and there and there is so much to discover, it's amazing. I could spent the rest of my life here ... in middle earth ... with all the wonderful people around.
Thank you honey for being my friend! Hope to see you soon ((((hugs))))
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But I don't despair. In the months I've been on LJ (I only even heard rumours of its existence a year and a half ago), I can see that there still is and will be a little group left to gather around the fire, warming their hands and hearts (and libidos, if that is their bent) over tales of Frodo and the Ring, and the rest of the Tolkien creation.
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That's true. I started - a few weeks ago - walking through the journals of some of my friends ... from their very first beginning. It's a wonderful journey ...so much hobbit love still now ... but it's true - as you said - the Frodo fictions have become more and more less *sigh* ... for me - as I said - they will be always in my heart. They still are since ages.
I will continue my journey through my friends archive jounals tomorrow - and YOU will be the next on my list. I'm so curious and so looking forward to it. *big hobbit hugs for you*
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My journal is solidly Frodo-centric, although there are a few personal posts and posts about Brokeback Mountain. There are some cap series from two other Elijah Wood films, as I've probably mentioned, but just because they help me imagine his film-Frodo at a younger age.
Otherwise there are links to my unfinished fanfic (still toiling along) and my Frodo Art Travesty manips and the screencaps.
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That's what I wanted to hear, LOL! It sounds wonderful, I will enjoy my journey, I know it already and you will see me now and then. Promised.
(I can't keep my comments back, NEVER!) *hugs you*
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P.S. Is your icon from the film EW has been shooting recently in which he is a soldier?
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