Mechtild's

what a beautifulf poem, and it is perfect for this!

I just have to say I could never be a director because I could of never cut this scene ;) the extended edition was such a treat all around but this scene captures so much of the book .. that slower pace almost a relish of each others company and *guh* Frodo's skin is glowing! er but I digress....

However, browsing the films to find the screencaps for that entry, I saw that there still were many scenes I wanted to cap, or cap in a different format, just for the beauty of them.

Yay! (-:

It's been long enough that I've been following and haven't commented--I've been holding off with the excuse that I'd comment when I finished my icon set from your stills and got them the way I want them and then show them to you. But I assume you are also mortal and, well, we may not live that long.(-; Thank you for all the wonderful caps and your Frodo-centric and Frodolijah enthusiasm. (I share this enthusiam, but I've diverted it into love for the rough draft version of Frodo, Bingo, which has been a fun muse for me, and for whose role-playing LJ I'm making the icons.) I am very grateful to you. And like any Frodo fan, I'm glad you're not sailing away yet and are staying to make us more entries. Thank you. (-:

I've enjoyed your commentary and Jan-u-wine's poems, though I've been more visually focused here and hope to go back and attend to your texts more. I so love the portion of her poem here imaging the tengwar on the page as stars transformed to falling petals--what a wonderful image.

The early scenes of happy, wry, Frodo in the film's adaptation of the book seem much more like book Frodo to me then most of how he is depicted after and I missed his sarcastic humor in the film, but was interested by what the adaptation achieved. In some scenes, I could see Frodolijah as the book's older Frodo whose physical age got slowed to just over coming of age by the ring, but this is one of the scenes when he barely seems coming of age, so it's perfect for depicting a younger wee Frodo.

I'm sorry for my delay in replying.

Yup, Bingo (was a different incarnation (even the dates and parents vary, thus I worked him in as Frodo's 6 years elder half brother in rping. (-; ) And yes, he was quite the Rambo Baggins taking Merry's role in early drafts of the Scouring. I love the change in Frodo's role to peacekeeper, making sure the hobbits don't become monsters themselves in taking vengence for their wrongs, beyond freeing themselves and getting back what they claimed as their own. I was just very tickled and touched by Tolkien's difficuty in letting go of the name Bingo when changing back and forth a couple times to Frodo. And Chris Tolkien's footnote on the origin of the Bingo name is one of my favorite footnotes ever. I knew about Bingo and Trotter from The Letters I read a couple decades ago, but I didn't know abut the HoME until after the first film came out, and it was such a joy to me.


That cart scene is quintessential Frodo and Gandalf--I love the lines they came up with there--very true to the characters--that was great fanfic writing there from Fran and Phillipa.

Now Bingo would kiss you for saying "earlier drafts" rather than "rough drafts"--he's a bit touchy about that, though he actually likes the terms "First Drafts" and "retro-drafts" best. :-P And yes, we did have a Trotter for a while, and I've done some backstory of Trotter and Bingo's adventures in Umbar and Khand saving southland hobbit children from slaver ships and rescuing endangered mumakil, this while the War of the Ring was taking place northward. (-;

But the larger game was totally cracked--it was a satiric and crazed game that started popping up on LJ in the late winter of 2002 called the Middle-earth Sockpuppet Theater, or MESPT. Journaling online, with its threaded interactions, was still a pretty new way of roleplaying back then. I started on LJ in May of 2002 in the post-FotR film mania, expressly to join it. What was so much fun was that obscure characters from the genealogical trees in the Appendices, The Silmarillion, Lost Tales, HoME--Valar, Elves, Humans, Orcs, would just pop up in threads as someone new joined in the fun, or one of the people who had 50 sockpuppets added another one. And some of the writers were hilarious. It was set post-quest, any character could be resurrected, and it was full of meta--some people played just for slap stick, some included continuity in their storylines, some posted mostly serious threads, lots of us liked mixing modes. Frodo and Sam married and were the most dysfunctional sitcom couple ever--their writers were very clever. Others reveled in coming up with plot devices to torment them--Sancho Proudfoot being the cleverest villain. Rosie torched the Shire with a flamethrower and ran off with Denethor, etc. People who were well versed in the fratricidal history of the elves developed those areas of Middle-earth and lovers of Rohan and Gondor developed those. The people who would come up with the best satire had the best grasp on the minutia of Middle-earth. It was so much easier to read the Silmarillion after playing with these folks. Icons of the players' choice--mostly actors and musicians--were used for the myriad characters not featured in the films. And some fun stuff was done through icon choice as well.

Most people dropped out of playing in 2003, but a few of us kept writing through 2005 with more emphasis on character and plot continuity than satire, and Bingo's been periodically posting still. I always thought of it as collaborative writing as much as role playing due to the wonderful format LJ gives for characters to set a scene and interact. I so miss having people to write with--I have a whole crew of hobbits that sprung up around Bingo, some also early drafts, and others; I really miss our Shire. I need to recruit.(-: I also need to set up that Bingo Bolger-Baggins Preservation Society community one of these days. (-;

Anyway, I could give you links to Bingo, and some early and later MESPT threads if you're interested in perusing them. And if you know of anyone who wants to write LoTR characters collaboratively and improvisationally with some hobbits and others with weird and traumatic pasts, send them my way. (-:

What a beautiful poem. What a beautiful hobbit.

What a beautiful poem, full of magic and wonder! And the screencaps are beautiful, too. I love that scene in the film; the interaction between Frodo and Bilbo is very touching, and of course Frodo's face is pure perfection. I could look at him for hours... But wait! It's exactly what I did!:)

This is one of my favorite scenes, I'm so glad that it was put back in in the EE. Thanks for the gorgeous screencaps and the beautiful poem.

Oh, I love that scene. Frodo looks utterly divine. *dreams*

Thank you!

What a beautiful post, my dear. The screencaps are fantastic, so many scenes didn't make it to the film - this one is one of my favourites.
Frodo's innocent and carefree life before the quest, doesn't he look very pretty, here? -
and Bilbo! Oh, how I love Bilbo here.

Jan's poem is just perfect for this.

"tomorrow
I shall find the Dragon
again.

He waits
there….

there,
beneath the grey of the bench,

there,
where my fingers
have made
a soft diamond
of the page's edge.

Mumma?

Do you want to see the Dragon, too?"

I don't know what to say but I simply LOVE this post!

Thanks, my dears!

Love you,
Julchen

There are so many scenes I missed in the films *sigh* but this one is just gorgeous as well as the wagon scene.

Have a wonderful weekend, mechtild, with lots of fun, sun and joy!

I'll stroll through your journal for the next days so you'll see me when you're back.

"I think that is because i *feel* love myself. It's a mater of the giving being as great as the 'getting', i imagine."

I can sooo feel this love, my dear. Between the lines your heart is beating, your soul is dancing... as well as mine.

Love,
Julchen