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What Frodo would have looked like as Gollum

19 December 2012 at 6:22 am

Elijah Wood like you’ve never seen him before…

Remember those few times in ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ when Frodo went all weird and nearly lost control to the One True Ring? Well turns out it nearly got a lot worse for Master Baggins.

[Related story: How dwarves caused problems on Hobbit set]
[Related story: The Hobbit vs. The Lord Of The Rings]

In the original draft for ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers’, Faramir has a vision of Frodo’s potential fate, should the one true ring take hold of his soul. Now, ten years after the film’s release in 2002, we finally get to see what that might have looked like in these newly released production shots.

According to Movie Ramblings, this is the real deal - the proposed concept from New Line Cinema that never made the cut. Creepy isn’t it?

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