Frodo is exceptional for a Hobbit in The Fellowship of the Ring, but by the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, he is just going to be plain old amazing, full stop. To "ennoble" them means to make them greater, to make them more noble. The "ignoble" are the lowly, ordinary people. After all, as we discuss in " What's Up With the Ending?" Tolkien wants these books to be about "the ennoblement of the ignoble" ( source, 220 in a letter to the Houghton Mifflin Co). Peter Jackson may make Frodo more beautiful than he is in the books, but Tolkien has a definite purpose in mind by keeping Frodo homely. So why pick a Hobbit hero as the center of the Lord of the Rings trilogies?
At the same time, he's not as obviously heroic as many of the other people in the Fellowship, say, Aragorn or Legolas. We don't see any of the Boffins, Bolgers, or Proudfoots volunteering to carry Sauron's One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. Oh sure, he may also be " taller than some and fairer than most cleft in his chin: perky chap with a bright eye" (10.34) but Frodo is still a Hobbit, and that means he's short, plump, and a bit plain.įrodo is an extraordinary Hobbit, that's for sure. In Tolkien's vision, poor Frodo is completely unromantic: " A stout little fellow with red cheeks" (10.34). Frooo ~ oodo!" – absolutely do not appear in the original novel. Those huge eyes – so often looking on the edge of tears, especially when Sam is imparting some piece of wisdom to "Mr. Probably the biggest change is Frodo's giant baby blue eyes. When Peter Jackson directed his film version of The Fellowship of the Rings, he made a lot of changes to the story line of the book. “Then I took that tape, its output to the VHS,” Woods laughed.(Click the character infographic to download.) “We went to the Miramax offices that night, back when Miramax was still a thing, and cut the scenes together,” Woods said. They shot two scenes for the audition in Griffith Park and one at Wood’s home. To get the part of Frodo right, Woods went to a dialect coach to perfect the Shire accent. He also asked a filmmaker friend to help him shoot the tape. But he decided to make one for his audition as Frodo Baggins. Wood had never made an audition tape before that and he noted that they weren’t a common practice then. Going an extra mile or should we say miles for the role Nervously thinking about the script, Wood knew he would have to do something more than simply reading for the part in a white room.
“It really came to life off of the page.” “It was so palpable and lifelike,” Wood said. After reading, Wood said, he was “immersed in the world.”
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Since the movie producers were keeping the script under wraps, Wood sat in a casting director’s office by himself and read the script for two hours. The next step was preparing for the audition, but Wood’s agent told him that he would need to go to the casting office to read the script. As the reality of a possibly great opportunity presented itself in front of him, he took it. Wood had already read The Hobbit and was familiar with the middle-Earth fantasy that J.R.R. But then his agent called and suggested the same thing. “There’s so much in Heavenly Creatures that establishes what he’s capable of as filmmaker and marrying the notion of a fantasy realm with an emotional honesty and depth,” Wood said.Īfter a friend suggested that Wood go in to audition for Frodo, Wood laughed it off. A fan of his work, especially his renowned 1994 psychological drama Heavenly Creatures, Wood admitted he could see why that would work. When Wood first heard that Peter Jackson, the movie director, was making Lord of the Rings, Wood thought it was an “incredible” idea. Elijah Wood | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival How did Elijah Wood hear about the movie and the role? Recently, in an interview with GQ, Wood revealed the lengths he went to, to get the historical part in the movie. One such role was of the ring-bearer himself, Frodo Baggins, played by Elijah Wood. The characters and the actors who played them in the movie left an unforgettable mark in cinema with their roles. The iconic trilogy set in dystopian middle-Earth, where the power of evil is growing and there’s only but a ring that can change the course of the future, still hasn’t lost its appeal amongst an ever-growing fan base. It has been 18 years since the last Lord of the Rings movie, The Return of the King debuted in theaters.
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