"Just a Feeling" 4

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=85 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="005dba33.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="009ef530.jpg" border=0 width="239" height="83" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 1"><U>"Just a Feeling" 1</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id40.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 2"><U>"Just a Feeling" 2</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id41.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 3"><U>"Just a Feeling" 3</U></A><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><B>"Just a Feeling" 4</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Symbol" >   ·   </FONT><A HREF="id45.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling 5"><U>"Just a Feeling" 5</U></A></div> <div>  |    <A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us"><U> home</U></A></div> <div> back to  <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just a Feeling"><U><B>"Just a Feeling"</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=395 BGCOLOR="#99FF00" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="81824243.gif"> <div>     </div> <div> "Just a Feeling" 4</div> <div> <B>This page and the next are the only ones in this set that are frame-by-frame.  Again, I've left out any spaces between the pics to make it easier to watch Frodo's (and Sam's) movements by scrolling down the page.  I thought here of Sean Astin's statement that he'd spent "hundreds of hours" staring into Elijah Wood's eyes.  To use a  cliche, if Frodo could bore a hole through Sam with his eyes here, he would.  Is Frodo trying to "read" Sam?  Trying to figure out if he really believes what he's saying, or if he has the same realization Frodo does and is just covering it up?  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>While this is going on, something else is happening gradually.  This seems an unlikely place to see an echo of a </B><A HREF="http://www.frodolivesin.us/FotR/id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frodolivesin.us/FotR/id4.htm"><U><B>"boys will be boys" moment</B></U></A><B> from early in </B><I><B>FotR</B></I><B>, but, well, these </B><I><B>are </B></I><B>the same two boys, and they've known each other for a long time.  I'm not sure who starts the action, here.  Sam's the one who does most of the moving, but he seems to be reacting to Frodo - even though Frodo's not physically pushing him out of the way.  Perhaps Sam is just planning to turn around and take his place in the lead again, but keeps his gaze on Frodo as he's doing so, to make sure he's all right.  Whatever it is that Sam's doing, Frodo keeps his eyes locked on him, and "follows" him through the turn, putting himself in position to take the lead.  In both </B><I><B>TTT </B></I><B>and </B><I><B>RotK</B></I><B>, there are several places where Frodo takes the lead back from Sam, and I can't help feeling that they're significant.  Whether they're all planned to have the </B><I><B>same </B></I><B>significance, I don't know.  That would take some intensive study... </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The closer we get to having Frodo in full profile, the closer he looks to accepting that Sam is who he is, and believes what he believes, and there's not much he can do about it.  But I get no sense at all that he's buying into Sam's hopes--just that he understands them.  He gives him what could almost be considered a small nod as he passes him (after another half-blink). </B></div> <div>  <A NAME="justafeeling4_top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="956204d0.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="333" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="90120500.jpg" border=0 width="800" height="336" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> 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