About that fun that I mentioned...

[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

I thought that I had posted all the photoshoots that lemming23 bestowed upon me, but in sifting through my Photobucket account, I discovered that there is (a very large) one that I missed.

I'm quite certain that these have all been posted elsewhere, but there are bound to be people who have not seen them all, so, here they are. Some are the same image with slightly different coloration, but some seem to be exact duplicates. Not sure why that is, but I'm including everything.

I'm not overfond of this shoot, myself. I'm pretty sure that it was done around the time of his appendicitis, and he looks painfully thin and just plain uncomfortable in many of them. In fact, I'm tempted to think that the shots of him in the lighter-colored jacket were done at a different time, because he looks much healthier to me (or, maybe it's just the angle). In any case, there are still some striking shots here!

Anyway, without further ado:

Comments

[earths-daughter.livejournal.com]

Thank you.I had only seen a couple of these before.

[laeliacatt.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Bunnie! I had seen only a very few of these shots before. I agree that they seem to have been taken at different times. He didn't look at all well in those that feature the dark jacket.

But the light jacket and the blue t-shirt with the holes? I swear it looks like one of my parrots got ahold of that t-shirt to "distress" it for him. :D

[sams-star.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Bunnie--I'd never seen the ones in the light jacket--they're very nice!

The ones in the dark jacket

[wakerobin.livejournal.com]

I could be wrong, but I am fairly sure these were done in a photoshoot quite soon AFTER he got out of hospital. He was really quite ill, god bless'em. He lost a ridiculous amount of weight, given how slight he was to begin with. And yet, still so beautiful it almost hurts to look at him.

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[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

That would make sense, as well. As his operation was Aug. 6, these could have been taken shortly thereafter, before he was feeling quite himself. I only know for certain that the pics hit the internet in mid-October, and the first thing I thought about them (well, besides *squee!*) was that they had to have been taken when he was not feeling well.

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[wakerobin.livejournal.com]

Creepy as it may sound, am I the only one who want to hear the whole story of this situation? I've gleaned some things from random, int'l reports and put together other stuff, e.g., he was feeling poorly for months before, including the MTV Movie Awards. The really scary part is, the appendix burst literally days after he'd flown back from Australia or thereabouts. If that puppy had burst 30,000 ft. up, he'd be a goner. And that he lost almost 25 lbs, which is ridiculous, given that he only weighed about 140, tops, to begin with. I think if all the facts ever come out, we'll be stunned at how close we came to losing dear Frodo.

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[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

I don't know or remember many details, but I do remember him saying that he felt ill for quite some time (I don't know about months... is that even possible?), but he has a really high tolerance for pain, so he pushed it aside. And then, suddenly, he was on the floor in pain and literally crying.

I think his weight after the loss was not that different from what it is now, but he's so much healthier, now! People say he looks to thin, and that may be so, but there's no mistaking it for the sort of wasting-away thinness brought on by illness.

I've often thought about how close he came to dying. And then there was the morning of 9/11, when he was due to fly out of NYC... :/

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[wakerobin.livejournal.com]

When you step back and consider, as every right-thinking admirer of The One Lad will do occasionally, he's gone through quite a few lives: 9/11, where he literally was on the flight that took off right before the doomed plane [same airline, same departing airport], the appendix that could have burst nowhere near a doctor, and I recall him talking about being broadsided and his car rolling appx. 2002, where he just walked away from it. Someone's watching over Elijah, I'm convinced of it - he's touched by God (or Eru or whatever there is out there).

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[sani-84.livejournal.com]

i didn't know about 9/11 and the broadsiding! well, he IS an angel, that's why he is touched by god. XD
Well, i believe he has a very hardworking guardian, or he is even loved by god so much (like he is by us, human beings, as well), that his guardian got the strict order to watch over him carefully. ;)

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[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Amazing stuff! And there's also the story about him driving the wrong way around a roudabout in NZ and a car was coming straight towards him. He panicked, shut his eyes and when he opened them the other car was gone and he was ok! He really does have a guardian angel!

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[bunniewabbit.livejournal.com]

I recall him talking about being broadsided and his car rolling appx. 2002, where he just walked away from it.

I don't remember that at all! Are you sure about that one? Wow.

Now, if we could just get whoever is watching over him to convince him to stop smoking... ;-)

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[(Anonymous)]

>Now, if we could just get whoever is watching over him to convince him to stop smoking... ;-)

I rest my case. ;)

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[sani-84.livejournal.com]

You are not the only one who wants to know more about this story. I read in several facts summary about him suffered of appendix, but was curious about details. So i started google about this fact, but never get to know more. So your report here gives me a better view. I've never known that he was so close to death. Poor Lij... Did he felt on the floor in pain? Was he on the way to somewhere or had he attended an event or sth like that? Really scary! And most of all, at that time i didn't paid much attention to Lij as i do now. So when he were really gone then, i even didn't notice!!! That would be really sad... Like Johnathan Brandis died several years ago, and i just noticed that through a small report in a small newspaper.. though in Lij's case there would be a much bigger tumult... I'm soo glad he is fine.

He is rather thin now, but not like a skeleton though. And he looks healthy.

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[wakerobin.livejournal.com]

I agree, he looks toned and fit thin now. And so bloody beautiful. According to the newspaper reports we got here, Elijah was at his mom's house in Santa Monica when he just doubled over. His mom (god bless her) scooped him up and threw him in the car and got him to the hospital with little time to spare. How horrifying for her...he's all grown up but you know he's still her baby.

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[sani-84.livejournal.com]

his mother has an incredible mother instinct, hasn't she? Bless her. And he is so lucky with this mother.

>he's all grown up but you know he's still her baby.

Yeah, for every caring mother her children will always be her little children. What a luck to be at that time in his mother's house. What would be happen if he were somewhere else with noone caring!

[chicoriumeyes.livejournal.com]

*is dead from that first soft focus one*

Thanks for posting all these. I absolutely adore this photoshoot!

[chickenlegs-11.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for posting these. I have to admit this is one of my favourite shoots because he makes me think of a starving beautiful artist. Very selfish of me I know to place aesthetic beauty over his health - but well, I just can't help it!! Like someone else said he's so beautiful it hurts to look at him!