{"id":31843,"date":"2012-12-19T08:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/because-frodo-wasnt-already-tragic-enough.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:02:59","slug":"because-frodo-wasnt-already-tragic-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/because-frodo-wasnt-already-tragic-enough.html","title":{"rendered":"Because Frodo wasn&#39;t already tragic enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the LotR movies with a great passion, but, as in the book, the prolonged Passion of the Frodo begins to wear after a while.<\/p>\n<p>That said, this bit of movie trivia &#8212; how some make-up and costume tests were done to support a vision of Faramir&#39;s as to what a Ring-bound Frodo would turn into, a la proto-Gollum, is kind of cool. And given the visceral suffering by Elijah Wood&#39;s character, and the end-point of Smeagol, it&#39;s quite plausible. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Probably just as well it was one more thing that even the Extended Versions didn&#39;t include, but it&#39;s still a bit of fun.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/img.gawkerassets.com\/img\/188r0orje5ndgjpg\/medium.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/5969465\/what-frodo-would-have-looked-like-as-gollum?popular=true'>What Frodo would have looked like as Gollum<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the original script for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the ginger-haired Faramir has a vision of Frodo&#8217;s future, should the ring take hold of Frodo&#8217;s soul.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/7F8Qndvmspb' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the LotR movies with a great passion, but, as in the book, the prolonged Passion of the Frodo begins to wear after a while. That said, this bit of movie trivia &#8212; how some make-up and costume tests were done to support a vision of Faramir&#39;s as to what a Ring-bound Frodo would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/because-frodo-wasnt-already-tragic-enough.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because Frodo wasn&#39;t already tragic enough&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-lord-of-the-rings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3939,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/07\/consistency.html","url_meta":{"origin":31843,"position":0},"title":"Consistency","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Mar-03 11:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"I am Frodo. 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