Movie Characters Revisited: Frodo - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

William Cloud Hicklin · 09-05-2012, 11:59 AM

Too passive, and too young.

Frodo was, in the books, definitely older, wiser, and as CT puts it, "more long-headed" than the other hobbits. It's no accident at all that Tolkien made him the same age as Bilbo was at the time of his adventure, 50: a middle-aged bachelor getting set in his ways.

Movie-Frodo comes across as a teenage emo.

09-05-2012, 11:59 AM	#23
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Too passive, and too young. Frodo was, in the books, definitely older, wiser, and as CT puts it, "more long-headed" than the other hobbits. It's no accident at all that Tolkien made him the same age as Bilbo was at the time of his adventure, 50: a middle-aged bachelor getting set in his ways. Movie-Frodo comes across as a teenage emo. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.