Regarding book-Frodo as a "Perky chap with a cleft in his chin":
I ran across that description earlier this week, and I've been wondering for several days now: can anyone enlighten me on when Frodo (of the book) was "perky"? I have to admit I never thought of him that way. I always thought of him as a deep thinker, rather moody perhaps, more profound. But the thought of a "perky" Frodo has tremendous appeal.
My main view of book-Frodo is weary, increasingly hopeless, doggedly perseverant, that we see anytime during and after he crosses the Emyn Muil; but that contrasts with something else, surely, or Gandalf would not have described Frodo as "perky"? Help me out here.
This also deepens the contrast between Movie-Frodo and Book-Frodo, because the only time in the movie that Frodo is perky is at Bilbo's party. Definitely no "perky" after that.
I suppose for one thing, only a "perky" Frodo would have jumped up on a table at Bree and started singing about the man in the moon.
Maybe when he rolls Pippin over for bossing Sam around about breakfast and hot bathwater out in Green Hill country?
Any other perky moments?
--Helen
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