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Post subject:  Posted: March 5th, 2006, 11:28 pm |
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I liked the elves over-all in the films. They were beautiful and mystical. I guess the elves in LotR are different from the Hobbit because Tolkien's conception of Middle-earth wasn't fully developed yet. He did write the Hobbit quite a long time before he wrote LotR. Also, perhaps the Elves in LotR were more mindful of their short time left in Middle-earth, while the elves in the Hobbit were still enjoying life, not thinking so much about the diminishing into the West thing.
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Post subject: Posted: March 13th, 2006, 6:06 pm |
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Tolkien did write Hobbit way before LotR, but it's amazing how he seems to have had a very developed plan for LotR in his head even then. He introduces the Ring, Gollum and the Necromancer, which is all kind of a starting point to the LotR story.
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Post subject: Posted: July 30th, 2006, 4:35 pm |
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well when i watched the movies i didnt expect PJ to get the elves just right but i think he did the best job possible.
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Post subject: Posted: July 30th, 2006, 5:46 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: July 30th, 2006, 11:21 pm |
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I think PJ did a wonderful job depicting the Elves. They definitely looked the part, that's for sure. He even managed to make almost other worldly and magical. Just how I imagined them in the books.
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Post subject: Posted: August 2nd, 2006, 1:19 pm |
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He made way too many of them blonde IMO.
As for the second age elves I wasn't keen at all. The Noldor clad themselves in chain mail, not golden armour
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Post subject: Posted: August 4th, 2006, 5:12 pm |
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Nienor wrote: Hmm...I didn't remember that about the swords.
I thought they did well. The costuming was fabulous. They worked so hard to stay within certain kinds of textiles, mainly silks, and the clothes had such a natural feel to them. The landscapes were beautiful, too, though not always how I pictured them.
I thought they did as good a job as anyone could have, really.
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Post subject: Re: Did PJ do a good job depicting the Elves? Posted: October 7th, 2006, 5:36 pm |
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Aerandir wrote: What do you think? I love everything about the movie elves, but they don't seem to do justice to the elves from the books - for the Prologue Elves, they have the wrong weapons. They're supposed to have more longsword-type swords, as opposed to the curved ones, because they're Noldorin, and there was only ever one Noldorin Elf who had a curved sword, no matter what people say about Hadhafang having belonged to Idril - that's just something made up in the movie.
I think they were done superbly. The sword issue, I think, was just to give a sense of the change of time and history. If you look at swords in general, they have evolved into different pieces throughout history. Basically, two handed broad sword (as in LOTR), one handed broadsword(like Gladiator), cutlasses, sabres, fencing foils... _________________  
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