[stone of vision]

Greetings Frodo's friends

I admit i'm a bit lost and impressed by the myriad of ideas and thoughts in that thread.

I just can be in awe and try to share some of my musings inspired by the initial question: the two Frodo.

Two Frodos? Yes and no ( that's an normand answer, i'm normand [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img])
I ' ve ruminated it a long time and finally i think that there are, not one or two Frodo, but many of them.
As many as many of us who have read the book, or seen the movie and have decided that somewhere in a place called ME, in other time a hobbit called Frodo is living.
Frodo in the movie is PJ and EW 's imagination and ideas of his portrayal.
Frodo in the book is Tolkien's one.
Both of them are one version of "Frodo" the character , a side of the complexe personality Tolkien may have outlined with words and let the reader's mind achieve it, making its own personal vision of him.
So i guess, PJ's Frodo, is different, from mine, from Tolkien's or yours, according to our sensitiveness,likes or dislikes, in some details we want to skip or to keep.

I read the book before watching the movie, and the idea to confront an other opinion of what my mind has created, inspired by Tolkien's text amused me a lot. It was interesting to notice what i agreed, what was new and different for me and nevertheless valid or what was laughable and unlikely.

From the movie, from the book, from your various opinions , the psyche i have of Frodo is growing, improving and will keep on as long as new lights will be shed on that beautiful and fascinating character.

I like the movie very much and admire PJ's work but what i reproach the movie is, indeed that lack of free minding and imagination. Pictures and images will necessary influenced the people who had seen them as if the characters were prisonners of thoses images. Elijah's eyes will haunt some of us for a long time...
But i also believe,that, if the movie leads to read the book, then one could still find "his/her own Frodo" not totally the same and not totally different...