they tried out having Frodo partway-transformed-to-Gollum makeup.

And he looked like he really enjoyed those teeth. I mean, no less so than the airbrush they used to make him veiny and gross, but he was showing off the teeth with great elan.

Agreed that it wouldn't really work in the movie. There is such a thing as too much explicitness, and I'm glad Jackson can sometimes pull back on the reins.

A Friday pic fest from the Tokyo premiere.

Happy Hobbits minus Sean.

Mmm, Dom has nice eyes.

Pretend you all just won Oscars!

What is Elijah wearing?

I think he did that print himself. . . .at least it's not that pattern on pattern thing he had on in the pictures from Japan.

(Also, ear-wormed with "Into the West" . . . luckily it doesn't make me cry.)

I should say that pattern on pattern thing he was wearing in other pictures from the Japanese RotK premiere I've seen.

Aren't there only two major papers in Chicago?? Seems like a lot of critics.

Two major dailies. Lots of weeklies in both the city and suburbs, as well as critics for most of the local TV and radio stations, a few magazines, and don't forget that there are still quite a few national magazines that are headquartered here.

Looking for a Gollum photo to use on a website mockup...found this instead.

My first thought upon seeing that was "Damn! Fiona Apple's skin is reeeally bad up close."

Apparently, they has a ceremony at the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo where they reinacted the scene at Mount Doom.

And this is the crazy pattern on pattern he was wearing before.

But he still has all his fingers.

"Damn! Fiona Apple's skin is reeeally bad up close."

Poor man. At age 23, he's only just gotten over being called a moppet, and already he's been accused of looking like Fiona Apple and Michael Jackson. Which, on some thought, they're actually the same accusation.

The re-enactment thing weirds me out like hearing about plays where the actors go out into the audience weirds me out. Fourth wall people! It's there for a reason. To give me peace.