gollum's appearance

[King of the North]

I was recently re-watching the commentary on the Two Towers EE and Dominic Monaghan said something that got me thinking. He said that sometimes gollum looks old, young, like a cat, like a frog, like a dog, and sometimes like a bus. How many of you think he looks like a bus, cuz I do.

[Boromir88]

I don't see how he looks like a bus...I don't see how somebody can connect the physical appearance of a person to that of an object. I've never done that..."Wow you look like a fork this morning," but I guess people have.
How many of you think he looks like a bus, cuz I do.
Perhaps you should try to explain why you think he looks like a bus, and in what instances he does?

[Lord Melkor]

Lads, I think Dominic was joking when he said that Gollum sometimes looked like a bus. ;) Otherwise one might also truly believe him when he said that "Buckleberry Ferry!" was the best line in the entire movie. :p

[Encaitare]

He looks like a bus because he has big shiny eyes like headlights. :p

Perhaps this is a thread better suited to Mirth?

[Mithalwen]

Wouldn't say bus about gollum cos the phrase is usually "looks like the back end of a...." and he is a bit scrawny...... but as for other inanimate objects ... hour-glass and pear shaped are in common use....

[King of the North]

lol, i was joking, i just thought what Dominic said was soooooo funny

[Avie]

Bus, toad, cat or lizard. All made possible by Apple's "Shake" and Pixar's "Renderman" I grovel at the feet of the amazing computer wizardry! Gollum is just astonishing and kudos to that pair of compoanies (same CEO).

[Milord Aldagrim]

I think Gollum sometimes looks like a lizard.

[Milady Revenwyn]

I think they made Gollum way too cute. In that one scene where he's on all fours, he looks up at Frodo in that same adoring way a dog looks at its master.

[Milord Aldagrim]

Well, he did act like a little puppy sometimes to get what he wanted. I think they made him look like that because Jackson wanted people to feel sorry for him a little bit. It might have worked a little too well.

[The Only Real Estel]

Hmm, I never really saw a bus in Gollum. I saw a sports car on occasion, sometimes a stretch limo but never really a bus.

Otherwise one might also truly believe him when he said that "Buckleberry Ferry!" was the best line in the entire movie

And that he really did have his foot pierced by a 'splinter made of titanium' while filming the dock scene in the Shire. :p

[Ruoutorin]

I would avoid taking anthing that Dominic Monaghan says about Gollum seriously. He's an actor, and not a Tolkien scholar. He's just trying to say that Gollum is a character with different personalities.

[Beanamir of Gondor]

I agree that Gollum was waaaaaay too cute. He made me angrier as a cute little grovelling lizard (with the same fingernails as Elijah Wood) than in the book, where I imagined him to be a little creepier.

And tho Dom might just be an actor... he was right about the cat/frog/dog part. If not the bus.

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[radagastly]

Maybe Dom meant 'buss,' an old-fashioned word for 'kiss,' though I can't see a mouth that eats worms, raw fish (probably raw orc) and ring-fingers being very kissable. Especially before the invention of the toothbrush.

He might have meant 'bus' as in bus-boy, the guy who cleans up the mess off the tables in a restaurant after a meal. Gollum certainly qualifies as a mess, as do most bus-boys. I don't think Gollum would leave food spatters all over him, though, even if they were from other peoples meals. I don't think he'd be that picky.

Actually, there is a single shot of Gollum in Moria peering over the top of a ladder rung (or something like that) during "Fellowship" where his eyes sort of glow like the headlights of a bus.

Encaitare:
He looks like a bus because he has big shiny eyes like headlights.

This may actually be the reason.

[Letty]

In the book Tolkien describes Gollum as "a black creature",not as a grey one.
And he says Gollum`s hair is rare, but not five hairs altogether!!!!