"The bratty look"? I missed it! I'll have to pop that DVD right back in the computer!
But do you mean that grin? If so, I do remember that and loved it, but I had interpreted Frodo's grin not just as relief to have evaded them, but a smile at Bilbo's discomfiture. Frodo seems to stand a bit apart from Bilbo's feud with the S-B's, in the book and in the film (in which it is only glimpsed). I always thought Frodo probably found the whole thing a bit amusing, a tempest in a teapot over an offense that happened before his time, even if Frodo didn't like the S-B's either -- simply because they were unpleasant.
Frodo ended up letting Bag End go to them, which tells me that he wasn't that personally invested in the whole squabble.
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Re: Golden Frodo
Date: 2005-11-07 07:47 pm (UTC)But do you mean that grin? If so, I do remember that and loved it, but I had interpreted Frodo's grin not just as relief to have evaded them, but a smile at Bilbo's discomfiture. Frodo seems to stand a bit apart from Bilbo's feud with the S-B's, in the book and in the film (in which it is only glimpsed). I always thought Frodo probably found the whole thing a bit amusing, a tempest in a teapot over an offense that happened before his time, even if Frodo didn't like the S-B's either -- simply because they were unpleasant.
Frodo ended up letting Bag End go to them, which tells me that he wasn't that personally invested in the whole squabble.
Just my opinion, of course.