To: Charles Henrickson
Ian Holm made a terrific older Bilbo in FotR, but I agree, he wouldn't be able to pull off the younger Bilbo. NOT TRUE! Remember, the ring has greatly slowed Bilbo's aging process. Look at the difference between Bilbo at the beginning of FOTR and at Rivendell. He's 111 years old but looks 50 - the age he would about be in The Hobbit.
151 posted on
12/09/2003 1:25:05 PM PST by
Xthe17th
(It's the Senate, Stupid! Repeal the 17th amendment. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/repeal17)
To: Xthe17th
I'm 50! I don't look as old as Ian Holm, even in the finding-the-ring flashback! Ian Holm is now 72. Even a ring of power wouldn't help him play the younger Bilbo over the course of a whole film.
152 posted on
12/09/2003 1:47:55 PM PST by
Charles Henrickson
(And there would be planty of close-ups in The Hobbit, not as in the little flashback.)
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