Frodo baggins/sam/merry/pippin specifacations

Elessar the Elfstone · 03-16-2003, 02:53 PM

I am probably one of the youngest people to send a question to the forum, but I would like to know the specifacations of auditions of playing a Hobbit

eg Age: Hight: singing voice: etc.

Gwaimir Windgem · 03-16-2003, 11:09 PM

Welcome to the Entmoot, Elessar! Hope you have a good time here.

Alas, I would be glad to help you with your question, but I fear that my knowledge of this project is extremely limited.

Elvellyn · 03-17-2003, 12:01 AM

Hmm... perhaps they would just use taller supporting actors to make the hobbit actors look smaller?

Lady_of_the_Golden_Wood · 03-25-2003, 01:27 AM

Yah, I wonder how they will make the actors short

It just wouldn't be right to have a tall hobbit

hama1 · 03-28-2003, 02:34 AM

As a very wise director friend of mine said..."Brad, you don't need actors who are short. You need actors who can act short." Also, as Elvellyn mentioned, if actors protraying other characters are tall then the hobbits and Gimli will appear short by comparison. Also, the stage will have a rather severe rake or slant from front to back so with proper staging the hobbits and gimli, staged downstage from the other actors will appear even shorter.

03-16-2003, 02:53 PM	#1
Elessar the Elfstone Enting Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Usually located Bree Inn of the prancing pony Posts: 59	Frodo baggins/sam/merry/pippin specifacations I am probably one of the youngest people to send a question to the forum, but I would like to know the specifacations of auditions of playing a Hobbit eg Age: Hight: singing voice: etc.

03-16-2003, 11:09 PM	#2
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Welcome to the Entmoot, Elessar! Hope you have a good time here. Alas, I would be glad to help you with your question, but I fear that my knowledge of this project is extremely limited. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

03-17-2003, 12:01 AM	#3
Elvellyn The Redneck Elf Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In a house Posts: 539	Hmm... perhaps they would just use taller supporting actors to make the hobbit actors look smaller? __________________ Oliphants make great pets.

03-25-2003, 01:27 AM	#4
Lady_of_the_Golden_Wood The Precious Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Glasgow Posts: 204	Yah, I wonder how they will make the actors short It just wouldn't be right to have a tall hobbit __________________ was holding on hanging by a thread clinging to three words you said but words are meaningless in your absence.

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03-28-2003, 02:34 AM	#5
hama1 Elven Warrior Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: NY and MA Posts: 133	As a very wise director friend of mine said..."Brad, you don't need actors who are short. You need actors who can act short." Also, as Elvellyn mentioned, if actors protraying other characters are tall then the hobbits and Gimli will appear short by comparison. Also, the stage will have a rather severe rake or slant from front to back so with proper staging the hobbits and gimli, staged downstage from the other actors will appear even shorter.