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Feb. 5th, 2009 04:26 pmSo I've been kind of having a Tolkien renaissance - picked Return of the King up again, read a whole bunch of fic/meta, am possibly writing srsly emo postquest Frodo/Sam crack in my school notebooks - and I needed icons. But I didn't want the movie.
Because I read LotR as such a kid, I had really clearly formed images of the characters long before the movies came out. And often, the movie images don't really gel with my preferred characterizations. Frex, one of the side effects of casting Lij as Frodo when he was just a little bairn is that movie!Frodo looks to be at least ten years Sam's junior, when in fact he ought to be, what, twelve years older? and that screws up their entire dynamic. And anyway I'd like to get away from movie images, and let my old visuals loose again.
Therefore, I have 14 hobbit icons, based on images from traditional portraiture. Feel more than free to snag any that catch your fancy - please comment and credit, thx.
( chasing Black Men up mountains from what my Sam says, though what for he don't make clear. )
Because I read LotR as such a kid, I had really clearly formed images of the characters long before the movies came out. And often, the movie images don't really gel with my preferred characterizations. Frex, one of the side effects of casting Lij as Frodo when he was just a little bairn is that movie!Frodo looks to be at least ten years Sam's junior, when in fact he ought to be, what, twelve years older? and that screws up their entire dynamic. And anyway I'd like to get away from movie images, and let my old visuals loose again.
Therefore, I have 14 hobbit icons, based on images from traditional portraiture. Feel more than free to snag any that catch your fancy - please comment and credit, thx.
( chasing Black Men up mountains from what my Sam says, though what for he don't make clear. )