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Originally Posted by Hitch
Sorry:
We're talking at cross-purposes, or I'm just being unclear (hardly surprising). I meant, the 33-34 age in the movie. I know the age/timeline in the books. ;-) I didn't take the age/timeline in the movie as correlating to the age/timeline in the book, given that whats-is-name was 20 when the movie was made, and looked it.
Hitch
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In the movie, Frodo's age was never revealed. And yes, he did look as if he was around 20, obviously. Sam actually looked older, but that might be caused by the fact that he was also fatter.
In the book, it was explained that Frodo (and Bilbo) kept looking way younger than they were, because of the effects of the ring. Even at 50, Frodo looked like he was in his thirties. Bilbo in the book would have looked much younger than Bilbo in the movie, as he was called "well preserved"; looking like 50 even when closing in on 100.
It would have been possible to put the 17 years of research into the movies, and have Frodo look like 20, but then, Sam and the others would have needed to look like close to forty. I don't think that would have worked very well.
Actually, I think that the entire 'looking young at an old age' was taken out of the movie to not confuse people who were not well versed in the LotR books.