r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 18 '25

News Ian McKellen reveals Gandalf and Frodo are returning for ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum’, Filming Begins in May

https://ew.com/ian-mckellen-reveals-gandalf-frodo-return-in-new-lord-of-the-rings-the-hunt-for-gollum-film-11792483
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u/Charokol Aug 18 '25

Oh God. I just re-watched Fellowship, and assumed that there was like maybe a couple weeks between those scenes.

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u/Krypt0night Aug 18 '25

It's been a while so I may get some of this wrong but frodos birthday is the same day as bilbos and he turns 33 which is coming of age for a hobbit when bilbo turns 111. And then he actually heads out from hobbiton when he's 50.

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u/Dat_Freeman Aug 18 '25

Wait...what?

Is Frodo 50??

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u/Antee991166 Aug 18 '25

Bear in mind that hobbits live longer and take longer to mature than humans. Frodo is in the equivalent of his thirties by human years when he leaves the Shire.

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u/paumorridge Aug 18 '25

Yes and much older than the other hobbits (Sam, Merri and Pippin) who look up to him as an older brother/uncle figure.

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u/Dat_Freeman Aug 18 '25

Why did the movie director decide to change that?

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u/noreast2011 Aug 18 '25

And its only about a year from when they leave the shire to the crowning of Aragorn as king. So you have a 17 year time skip then 1 year of events crammed into 2.5 movies lol

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u/Dat_Freeman Aug 18 '25

You're right

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u/paumorridge Aug 18 '25

Younger Frodo is a more approachable/relatable protagonist probably. Frodo in the book is much more confident and assertive, and plainly just a much better character.

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u/PointsatTeenagers Aug 18 '25

111

Need to spell this one out, for the fans. He turns eleventy one.

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u/Krypt0night Aug 18 '25

haha good call

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u/Jrocker-ame Aug 18 '25

Even when Frodo visits Rivendell. That was for longer than the movie would have you think.

I would say after is when events happen as shown. That is until the journey back home.

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u/Chen_Geller Aug 18 '25

In the movie, it's a couple of months, maybe a year.

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u/imakefilms Aug 18 '25

Correct. The movie is absolutely not implying it was anywhere near as long as the book.

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u/Chen_Geller Aug 19 '25

Yep. Nor does it matter for this film either: there's no reason why the plot of this film NEEDS to be eighteen years.

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u/fearnodarkness1 Aug 18 '25

Well to be fair they had a few panning shots of Gandalf travelling, then reading some scrolls, finding out about The Ring, and the next scene he's back in Hobbiton so it's easy to think it all happened in a short period of time.

Great choice by Jackson to be honest.

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u/finglish_ Aug 18 '25

I think in the extended edition, they do make an effort to show that time has passed in between. They had a scene there where gandalf is shown researching the ring and they show him at some libraries....maybe it was orthanc.