LOTR: Frodo TRANSFORMING into Gollum! (deleted scene)

A significant cut scene involved Faramir briefly seeing Frodo as Gollum, creating doubt about the ring. Despite Gollum being done with motion capture, Elijah Wood wore full makeup for this scene, as only his face needed altering.

[jreese]

Reminds me of the dummy they made of Ian Holm that showed up for like a 10th of a second in the first movie. The level of detail in these films is amazing.

[richieclean]

Except they didn't do Gollum only with MoCap. When they showed his transition in ROTK they had a mix of practical and CG...

[YavannaKementari-valar]

I still have such a soft spot for Frodo though in that state. He just looks so broken and scared and I wanna hug him and love him. 🥺💞

[TheOtherKine]

Dang, that make up and hair looked awesome

[QuriousG]

It’s an interesting idea. He still looks sweet though. His eyes look innocent. I don’t think the ring could ever really completely take him over.

[Claudespeedthegamer]

Frodo transformation would be so much disturbing than gollums

[NerdLifts]

When Smeagol was transforming Gollum they used makeup too.

[waffle]

It gives you an idea about how Bilbo and Frodo felt with Gollum. It's so tragic to see Frodo like that.

[bilbo.s_bestieOG]

Thank God they did not include these scenes! Frodo is a cute guy, I don't like to see him like this :(

[Melt.gibsont]

…also, Mr Woods already had the BIG BLUE EYES to play the part 🤭

[aquaman]

well in the beginning of the 3rd movie you can clearly see most of gollums transformation was all makeup until the end where his eyes changed and became bigger. then it turned to cgi.

[pharaohalhotep]

I think this is like, mid transformation. They did all of Gollum mid transformation with makeup too.

[jeskvell]

i still think Éomer should have more screen time

[DRich]

The film was already 4 hours long. What’s a couple more minutes?! Why not include this in the extended edition?!

[AnthonyLayfield]

Elijah Wood kinda looking like a female in this one 😅

[justinezafra]

If Frodo had been any more consumed by the ring, it would have been too late: he would have become a Republican ... 😱😮

[creaturedomes]

Frodo on the movie has to be the worst character ever. He is annoying and faints constantly like a baby. Is lazy and whines all the time. And that face doesn't help the situation.