Thanks so much for commenting, Whiteling! :) Your feelings and thoughts are always welcome and enrich any post.
I love that portrait, too, and still am looking to find a print of it, a real one, not just a copy made from the rather poor images available on the Internet or made as screencaps from the DVD.
"The Portrait" took quite a bit of mulling over, if I recall. Jan and I both loved the drawing, but it kept calling to her, to write something to it. Although the drawing is clearly based on the film character (when compared to Lee's drawings of Frodo before beginning to work on the films), it departs from film-Frodo in subtle ways, much more than the drawing that appears in the end credits, making it all the more evocative (in my opinion).
One of the things that inspired Jan to imagine Frodo younger per the Lee portrait is the slimness of his neck, as if he hasn't finished growing into his collar. Film-Frodo's neck is the neck of a grown man, even if his face is that of a youth.
In any case, it inspired a poem that speaks to the reader beautifully of both Frodo and Bilbo.
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Date: 2007-11-14 02:03 pm (UTC)I love that portrait, too, and still am looking to find a print of it, a real one, not just a copy made from the rather poor images available on the Internet or made as screencaps from the DVD.
"The Portrait" took quite a bit of mulling over, if I recall. Jan and I both loved the drawing, but it kept calling to her, to write something to it. Although the drawing is clearly based on the film character (when compared to Lee's drawings of Frodo before beginning to work on the films), it departs from film-Frodo in subtle ways, much more than the drawing that appears in the end credits, making it all the more evocative (in my opinion).
One of the things that inspired Jan to imagine Frodo younger per the Lee portrait is the slimness of his neck, as if he hasn't finished growing into his collar. Film-Frodo's neck is the neck of a grown man, even if his face is that of a youth.
In any case, it inspired a poem that speaks to the reader beautifully of both Frodo and Bilbo.