![]() Tolkien did not view his Hobbits that way: they were typical in appearance with English bucollic life, pot bellies and all: hardly like pixies, and certainly not elvish either: rather, diminutive versions of their English counterparts, but with rather largish feet. Most artists tend toward making Hobbits with "pixie" faces, ears and all, with lots of darling curly hair. We have been too influenced by artistic renditions, including (and especially) the movies! Now I will grant that Elijah Wood has a cute face, as also Billy Boyd, and some would say Dominic Monaghan: Sean Astin? Anyways, these are "cute" faces by human (esp. I imagine they appeared emaciated and sallow - very unlike the chubby, rosy cheeked Hobbits we tend to picture. I thought maybe since the orcs were bred in mockery of the Elves that orcs have bad eye site and Elves have great sight! I can't wait to see how the movie does this scene, maybe when we get a visual we will see how close a Hobbit can resemble an orc!Īnother thought that occurred to me is that our poor Hobbits had not had a decent meal in quite a while. ![]() I always tossed it up to the fact they were wearing orc clothing and there were many different orc breeds/size and there was lots of confusion between the orcs! William makes a good point that Treebeard almost mistaked them for orcs! The thing that gets me is the Hobbits have such cute faces and that was the main thing not hidden or disguised. Perhaps it is becouse they look different from the main "good hearted" races of Middle-Earth, it could be easy to assume they were made in mockery of something, with their big feet and short bodies, something Morgoth or Sauron would have created. "if I had seen you before I heard you, I should have just trodden on you, taking you for little Orcs, and found out my mistake afterwards. They were breed "in envy and mockery of the Elves" so why couldn´t some orcs be small, chubbie and have unproportioned big feet?Īnother encounter were hobbits were "almost" mistaken for orcs, were when tree-beard meet Merry and Pippin for the first time. Maybe by keeping orcs in the dark (no pun intended) Sauron let Frodo and Sam make it.Īs Colleen I belive orcs come in all sizes and shapes. Was it one Hobbit? Or an Elven warrior? Or were they looking for Gollum? The two orcs sniffing around were tracking Gollum, not the escaped prisioners. ![]() ![]() None of the orcs knew who or what they were looking for. Disguised as they were, Frodo and Sam could have passed for one of the smaller breeds. Second, there seem to be lots of different races of orcs - some big, some small. First, Frodo and Sam were wearing orc gear which disguised them at least somewhat. However, there are a few reasons I can think of. My only question: How could Frodo and Sam be mistaken for Orcs? Does anyone have any ideas on this? There seems to always be an explanation somewhere but this one totally baffles me. So, Sam and Frodo had no choice but to join the marching orcs. The slave driver halted the company and yelled again, "Come on, you slugs!" Recognizing the devices on their shields he assumed they were deserters. "Hi, you! Get up!" But Sam and Frodo did not move, did not speak. After half of the line had gone by, a slave driver spied them and flicked his whip at them. The orc troop marched by and it seemed that they would be overlooked sitting there at the side of the road. Sam agreed and he sat down next to Frodo and waited. "We’re trapped at last." And Frodo sank to the ground beneath the rock and bowed his head. He ran to the other side and looked over the brink into a dark pit of gloom. "We’re trapped," Frodo said and he looked wildly up at the frowning wall. Wk9, Bk6, Ch2, DISCUSSION: Sam and Frodo as Orcs?
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