I adore how Elijah Wood is so comfortable with a soft and sensible, kind, humble, yet confident masculinity that flies in the face of so much hyper-masculine bullshit.
It's truly impressive to me how solid he is in his identity, and from such a young age, too.
I would trust Elijah Wood with my life. He's just one of those rare men who radiate warmth and safety. I think if more men were like him, the world would definitely be a better place
21 January 2000 :: 20 years ago, portraits of the hobbits and other members of the Lord of the Rings cast are taken in New Zealand for two articles in Vanity Fair: a first glimpse of the hobbits, which would appear in the April 2000 issue of VF, and a slightly longer piece with full character portraits which appeared in the September issue.
It took the Ring two seconds to make both Isildur and Gollum claim it as their own.
It didn’t take much longer for it to make Bilbo do the same, as he kept it as the key “trick up his sleeve” during the Quest for Erebor and never considered harming it.
But in 17 full years and 6 months, it couldn’t make Frodo claim it. It took being inside Mt. Doom, the place where its power was absolute and drowned out all othere, to get Frodo to claim it.
Inside Mt. Doom, no bearer can resist the Ring. They will inevitably claim it there. But literally ALL of the other Ring-bearers who ever claimed it did so outside of Mt. Doom.
The Ring never needed to apply its utmost, Cracks-of-Doom-level pressure to make any previous Ring-bearer claim it. Frodo was the only one who resisted it so long and so well that it had to force itself upon him and break him just to get him to regard it as his own.
Frodo Baggins is the strongest mortal in the Third Age of Middle-Earth and no, I am not accepting questions at this time.
(Remember our beloved Samwise Gamgee never claimed the Ring, and didn’t have it long enough for it to really sink its teeth into him as deeply as it did into everyone else. I’m talking about those who actually claimed the Ring at some point in their lives.)
This is why I will stan Frodo till the day I die. He doesn't deserve the hate he gets when he was literally getting bombarded by the most evil object in all of Middle Earth and only breaks down once it's actually impossible to resist.
Anyway, to make a long story short, Frodo rules, and to slander him is blasphemy. Thank you OP for defending my sweet boy.
I was watching Lord of the Rings with Gollum. I'd managed to get a hold of the Ring and hid it with my dad because it looks exactly like his wedding ring (minus the inscription inside). I woke up just as Gollum was about to attack me.
Frodo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
VS.
William Thatcher, A Knight’s Tale (2001)
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Frodo Baggins, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
Portrayed by: Elijah Wood
Defeated Opponents:
- Dong Yilong [Henry Lau], Double World (2020)
- Prince Chauncley [Daniel Radcliffe], Miracle Workers: The Dark Ages (2020)
“The bluest of blue eyes, the burden, the sacrifice, the sadness… When I was in middle school and the movies were coming out, you were either an Aragorn girl or a Legolas girl. I was a Frodo girl.”
William Thatcher, A Knight’s Tale (2001)
Portrayed by: Heath Ledger
Defeated Opponents:
- King Arthur [Charlie Hunnam], King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
- King Vortigern [Jude Law], King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
“13-year-old me had such a HUGE crush on Will Thatcher / Ulrich von Liechtenstein, and you know what? 13-year-old me was RIGHT (and had much healthier taste in men). He's a dreamer, he's sweet (except maybe when you're dismissive about jousting...), he gives to others despite having little himself, he has the most charming, contagious smile. And to play us out... he's blonde! He's pissed! He'll see you in the lists! Lichtenstein! Lichtenstein!”
Additional Propaganda Under the Cut
Who is the Hottest Medieval Man?
Frodo Baggins [Elijah Wood] (Left)
William Thatcher [Heath Ledger] (Right)
Voting ended onDec 22, 2024
Additional Propaganda
For Frodo Baggins:
“cracks knuckles Okay, everyone. My time has come. Let me tell you all about the beautiful, wonderful treasure that is Frodo Baggins.
"He's intelligent. He can speak and write in Elvish, and he's mischievous, at least at the start of the story. His best friends are Merry and Pippin, and you can't tell me he didn't get into shenanigans with them once in a while. Whether it's repeatedly stealing Farmer Maggot's mushrooms as a kid in the book, or pushing Sam towards Rosie and cackling like a maniac afterwards in the movie, this makes him more relatable and imperfectly human, for lack of a better term, and you can't help but laugh with him.
"He's brave. Oh, he is so brave. Not in the sense that we would usually think- he's terrified the whole way through, and who wouldn't be in his situation? But he lets himself cry, lament his fate, feel whatever he needs to feel, do whatever he needs to do... and he gets up and keeps going anyway. He keeps going even though he's carrying something that's literally killing him, and rarely complains even though he'd be well within his rights to. This quote says it all, really: 'I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.'
"But most of all? He is so, so terribly kind. He's kind to everyone he meets, even to those who arguably don't deserve it, such as Gollum and Saruman. He loves the people/world he loves so much that he's willing to sacrifice himself to save them without any hesitation or thanks. And it's his kindness towards Gollum that actually ends up saving the day in the end! How could anyone not love him?”
For William Thatcher:
“HE'S SO CUTE AND BRAVE AND STUPID AND DETERMINED AND FUNNY AND POETIC AND HE HAS BIG BEAUTIFUL BROWN EYES AND FRECKLES AND HE'S BISEXUAL-CODED HE'S MY BOY I LOVE HIM SO MUCH”
“The only man that could have pulled off a David Bowie dance scene within a medieval ballroom.”
like i’m picturing him being really careful and looking at it and carrying it exactly like this while walking or riding through the woods and across rivers and up mountains and through valleys and he doesn’t drop it even once except at the very end where he tidily drops it into the volcano. frodo sam and the crew and even gollum wholly undisturbed. sauron can’t find him bc of the meditative aura surrounding him which is generated by his immense focus on not dropping it
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