McKellen on Frodo - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

HCIsland · 02-15-2003, 07:39 AM

I found this very interesting quote from Ian McKellen regarding the character of Frodo and Elijah Wood's portrayal of him. I'm curious what others think of this.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> In creating Frodo, Tolkien may well have been thinking back to the First World War and the lads who went on a terrible journey from which many never returned. Elijah reminds me of those statues of idealized young men on war-memorials throughout the world: more sublime than human and with a comlextion of molten marble.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>H.C.

02-15-2003, 07:39 AM	#1
HCIsland Zombie Cannibal Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 1,000	McKellen on Frodo I found this very interesting quote from Ian McKellen regarding the character of Frodo and Elijah Wood's portrayal of him. I'm curious what others think of this.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> In creating Frodo, Tolkien may well have been thinking back to the First World War and the lads who went on a terrible journey from which many never returned. Elijah reminds me of those statues of idealized young men on war-memorials throughout the world: more sublime than human and with a comlextion of molten marble.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>H.C. __________________ "Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed myself. Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse yet lay in the dregs." -Denethor