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I agree. I have had those thoughts as well. His character had been one of the few that had not been needed in the film had he not been in the fellowship.

In my opinion, all of the scenes that had been there to add to his character had not done so. One of the scenes I am referring to had been the one that you said looked as though he had been on a skate board. I thought that such scenes were attempting to make up for the lack of depth in his character.

Anyway, you are not alone in your thinking.

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well i'm definately on the pro-Legolas side here.i've always seen him as a brilliant and interesting character.i thought Orlando did a great job with him,its not his fault he was given a few drab lines and not very much character development.and as for him being useless,well i thought he kicked @ss! i'm not trying to argue with you guys i'm just stating my opinion.

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Yeah, he doesn't do much. He has hardly any lines in the movies! He did do more in the books. I liked him better in the books too!

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I will agree, he has a LOT more depth to him in the books. As incredible a job PJ and Fran and all the others did with the screenwriting, I do wish they'd put in a bit more insight into Legolas' character as was in the books. But I guess we need him because otherwise there wouldn't be Nine Companions, only Eight, which would kind of mess up the plot a bit.

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yeah I can only agree with that. I think Legolas lost his depth in the movies. In the books there are still situations where the reader recognizes that he's an elf and since all elves have something special about them he's special too even though he's not really a main character.
And in the movies he really just hasn't got this special elvish thing anymore.. kinda hard to describe.

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It's interesting to read everyone's opinions here. Poor Legolas beging degraded to the skateboarding dude with the pointy ears!

I agree that it was a shame they didn't manage to add more of Tolkien's depth to his character but shamefully reduced him to a fangirl treat along 'we'll give 'em something pretty to distract them from the gore in the long battles scenes'.
And yes another (more experienced?) actor might also have been able to perform magic with the very thin material given, but that's not strikingly relevant now since the movie is made.

But I was thinking about Gimli, what is he doing in the Fellowship? Like Legolas he is mostly there as a representative for his race and a travelling companion to Aragorn. The other members of the Fellowship are given plot-carrying key roles by the script writers. But strictly speaking, if Legolas is superflous, so is Gimli. Gimli who many times especialy during TTT was reduced to the comic relief 'let's make jokes about the short guy so the audience don't fall asleep during all the running'.

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I find Legolas as a charactar OK but orlando?NAY
sure he may be "hot" but can he act?????NAY
in my honest opinion he is insipid,and does not deserve all the credit some give him as a GREAT "actor"

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Well to put it simply... obviously Legolas serves a huge purpose in the story... if you take out just one character, the story would just go all floppy. Take out Legolas, and you won't have an Elf in the Fellowship.

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I get your point, JF. What hit me first was that there isn't a single conversation between the hobbits and Leggie. Isn't that strange? He's supposed to defend Frodo and then he doesn't even talk to him during the journey!

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i agree that legolas wasn't written particularly well in the films, and it wouldn't make much difference to the plot if he'd been cut, but he still has to be there. i mean, people went nuts when PJ cut bombadil, so can you imagine what would have happened if he's have cut a member of the fellowship? and of course, there had to be an elf in the fellowship so that all the races were represented.

essentially, i think that peter jackson and co can't write rounded, interesting characters - in my opinion, every single character is duller and flatter in the film than in the book, it's just more obvious with legolas.

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^I don't agree in general that all characters are flatter in the movies (Frodo, Gollum or Aragorn are not). I totally understand that they had to change things to make a good movie of the book, but I agree with you that sometimes it didn't work out (like with Legolas). Well, I love tha book and the movie, but remember that the movie is still an interpretation of the book, and not more.

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yeah I agree with that. I think that Gollum e.g. was portrayed very well in the movies, I really really liked that.
To what Eä said about Gimli.. yeah, I can agree with you, but I think with Gimli it's not as bad as with Legolas, because Gimli still has some typically dwarvish character traits in my opinion.

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