Thank you, White Gull. I'm glad you appreciated the work done on the manip.
I hadn't meant to imply that Frodo was a "Narcissus", White Gull, at least not in the traditional sense of a cold, heartless young man who refuses to love anyone but himself. I did not write clearly enough, to have given that impression.
I merely thought that Caravaggio's illustration of the myth--which is so much more evocative and ambivalent than the version of the story I quoted above (about the vain young man who gets his come-uppance)--leant itself well to an image of Frodo contemplating his own inner demons. That Frodo had a dark image of himself after the Quest, which grew darker after he got back to the Shire, was what I meant him to be looking at in the water, giving him that sorrow that is in his face. I didn't mean for the manip to project an image of Frodo in love with himself, like Narcissus in the myth. Quite the opposite!
Well, at least you can enjoy the manip for Frodo's physical beauty, which is no small thing. *g*
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Date: 2008-04-20 08:39 pm (UTC)I hadn't meant to imply that Frodo was a "Narcissus", White Gull, at least not in the traditional sense of a cold, heartless young man who refuses to love anyone but himself. I did not write clearly enough, to have given that impression.
I merely thought that Caravaggio's illustration of the myth--which is so much more evocative and ambivalent than the version of the story I quoted above (about the vain young man who gets his come-uppance)--leant itself well to an image of Frodo contemplating his own inner demons. That Frodo had a dark image of himself after the Quest, which grew darker after he got back to the Shire, was what I meant him to be looking at in the water, giving him that sorrow that is in his face. I didn't mean for the manip to project an image of Frodo in love with himself, like Narcissus in the myth. Quite the opposite!
Well, at least you can enjoy the manip for Frodo's physical beauty, which is no small thing. *g*