Mooning over "Golden Party Tent" Frodo....

[mechtild]

Yep, still procrastinating.

Because there can be no such thing as too many EE Party Tent screencaps, I pored over the scene in which Bilbo pulls Frodo aside, hiding from the arriving Sackville-Bagginses. Once they are out of danger, Bilbo tries to confide to Frodo what he plans to do. He struggles to say what he feels, but can't quite bring himself to do it. He ends up changing the subject and bringing the exchange to an abrupt close. Frodo mostly listens. I think this is a gorgeously played scene, and film-Frodo looks gorgeous in it. As I moved from frame to frame, I almost couldn't choose....


Frodo's face changed by only the tiniest increments as he listened to Bilbo, but I stared, enthralled, just the same.

I still am staring. How can he LOOK like that? My heart squeezes in my chest gazing at such finely-drawn emotions, expressed by a face of such incredible beauty. The lighting inside the tent doesn't hurt, either, producing, "Golden Frodo".

Here are some caps, appearing in film order.



Golden Party Tent Frodo:

































Ah, just look at those eyes, so dark, so brimming with affectionate feeling:





















And now, for the real drool-fest:












































Click HERE for table of Frodo and Elijah Wood Screencaps.



~ Mechtild

Comments

Frodo as David

[taerie.livejournal.com]

I was astonished to see that someone else had noticed the resemblance and I LOVE what you said describing his child/man beauty. Sets up an interesting conflict of instinct. Sometimes I don't know wether I want to snog him or feed him.

Re: Frodo as David

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I don't know wether I want to snog him or feed him.

HA! *LOL*

Why not both? He's a hobbit -- and a man ("the way to a man's [hobbit's] heart is through his stomach", as folk have said...).

P.S. Thanks for that info. on another way to make screencaptures. I know Texas-hobbit and others would definitely be interested in a program that can be downloaded free. Maybe ours was downloaded, too? I am terrible at the technical stuff, so I really don't know.

Re: Frodo as David

[taerie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am really bad at technical stuff too. That is why I was so glad to find an easy program.
Also explains why I have no idea how to share my screen captures. I have a huge collection of Frodo pics on my hard drive. Both grabbed from online sources and captured by myself. I am so glad my husband doesn't mind my hogging of computer resources. (He could probably do without the all Frodo all the time screensaver and desktop pics ;-)

Re: Frodo as David

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

I am able to show my caps the same way I show any of my images, which is by posting them at a free photo-hosting site. I use Photobucket. One merely needs to register (remembering to tick off everything correctly, such as specifying that the album is to be "public" and thus viewable by casual observers without passwords).

Once I get a goodly pile of caps in my Photobucket album for screencaps, I'll post the link to it, like I do to my "Frodo Art Travesties" manips. If you have ever opened that album (link is on left border of the journal page), all you are doing is opening a Photobucket album. You could do that with your own screencaptures -- put them in an album and then make the link available. I think a Photobucket album can be looked at by any browser, unless the owner locks it.

Re: Frodo as David OMG!!

[taerie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing me to this. This was GREAT! Did you do all these? What a great job! I do a bit of this sort of thing myself and I know how hard it is. What program do you use?
And last question is the most important.
Where can I see the rest of the cropped nude Frodo picture? LOL!
I didn't know about photobucket! I will check this out.. Thanks!

Re: Frodo as David OMG!!

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Well, I do keep a link to it under "links" on the left side of my opening journal page along with one to my fic, but you have to scroll down to see it, I'll admit. Otherwise there's a link on my "User's Info." page, but who looks at that? you may well ask.

Anyway, here's a link to the album:

http://photobucket.com/albums/v382/mechtild/Frodo%20Art%20Travesties/

If you just click open the first one, you can just keep clicking, "Next," to view them full-size. Otherwise, just click on the image you are interested in and it will enlarge. There are two pages. Actually, there is probably something to click at the top to access Photobucket, too, if you are interested in checking out what they have to offer.

I started making them to entertain myself and other besotted posters in Frodo's Harem, a thread at Khazad-dum (a Tolkien messageboard). The first ones I made were meant to be funny, since we were always talking about film Frodo's "art masterpiece"-classical beauty. But I soon found that I could make really beautiful images of him, too. Others were merely excuses to see him dressed in the costume and look of another era.

He really is a splendid model!

To make them, I used the photoshopping programs we already had loaded on our machine at home. For almost all the manipping I used the older, Microsoft Digital Image Pro 7.0, because I understood more easily how to find the things I needed on it. For almost all the cropping and re-sizing I used ACDSee 7.0 which does those functions more easily. ACDSee does everything the other program does and more, but I don't understand how to use most of its functions or how to access the tools. I don't really know how to use either of them properly; I just kept learning things as I fiddle. People who manip a lot seem to prefer PhotoShop.