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~ detail from "Frodo in His Study"
My "new" Frodo manip is actually a re-do, but a re-do from the ground up....
Recently, looking for a different work, I found a much better copy of the painting I used for my first version of this manip, Portrait of a Young Gentleman Reading (or, "Portrait of a Gentleman in his Study"), by Lorenzo Lotto. Goaded by its clarity, I made my own screencap of the image from FotR (Amon Hen) I had found on an internet gallery and used for the face last year, and re-did the manip.
I credit this to a fan of the manips who liked the first version of this particular Frodo Art Travesty so well, I wondered if I could improve upon it. The version I first did, which she saw, never fully pleased me because it was so small and murky, although it had its own charm. (It can be seen here.) I did not take it down from the Photobucket gallery, however, because it really does look like a different manip. The copy of the painting I made it from is so different (in colour values and in resolution), it makes the finished manip different, and I sort of like them both.
Below is the part of Tolkien's text that inspired me to make this manip in the first place, from the last chapter of The Return of the King, "The Grey Havens"....
One evening Sam came into the study and found his master looking very strange. He was very pale and his eyes seemed to see things far away.
‘What’s the matter, Mr. Frodo?’ said Sam.
‘I am wounded,’ he answered, ‘wounded; it will never really heal.’
But then he got up, and the turn seemed to pass, and he was quite himself the next day. It was not until afterwards that Sam recalled that the date was October the sixth. Two years before on that day it was dark in the dell under Weathertop.
~ "Portait of a Gentleman in His Study," by Lorenzo Lotto, c. 1527:
~ Mechtild
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Also, I do agree with you & Mews about that scene in the film - I'm certain that anyone who hadn't read the books would be at a loss to understand exactly why Frodo was leaving.
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Alas, I think it only contributes more of the sense that film-Frodo is an awfully fragile, sensitive little thing, blown about by every wind and prey to every emotional crisis.
They were doing a poll of film fans of "favourite hobbit;" Frodo was beat out by Sam (huge winner), and even Merry. *sob*
Again, it's not like I don't love film-Frodo, I do. But, remember, whenever I watch the films, the whole while my mind is "filling in" material about Frodo from the book, while I watch. I never see film-Frodo any other way.
Even if the film skipped over the Barrow scene, or Frodo talking ably and wisely (like a fellow prince) with the Lord Faramir, or if it failed to show the extent of his nobility and the depth of his mercy in the scene with Saruman in the Scouring, I am thinking all those things as I watch -- as if all that actually was filmed but is somewhere on the cutting room floor, LOL.
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It hurts.
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OT, did you see
"This is Sting," by Whiteling:
And I simply must post a big version of your icon, since that has become my favourite of all her drawings I've seen. Funny, too, since it isn't of Frodo!
"Este the Gentle," by Whiteling:
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Mechtild what a lovely way to celebrate. (((Hugs you)))
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If they did a poll of only book fans.. Frodo would do much better I think. Poor Frodo! Not appropriately appreciated in his home town and now not properly understood and appreciated by the masses in our own world where you think he would get a little justification!
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If they did a poll of only book fans.. Frodo would do much better I think.
I am sure you are right. Although, I think if all readers were polled, Sam would still be preferred to Frodo. Many readers revere and respect Frodo for what he did and who he was, but their affection often resides in Sam, who is more "homey" and accessible as a character, besides being tremendously brave and faithful, two virtues that are difficult not to love.