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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 9476873" data-attributes="member: 6906155"><p>You can add to that list <em>The Fellowship of the Ring</em>. Does anyone <em>not</em> think that cutting Glorfindel and giving his part to Arwen, rather than having her as someone who just sits around doing embroidery did not improve on the original text?</p><p></p><p>No, the dates really don't matter. They happened in the past, and that is all that matters for the PJ movies.</p><p></p><p>Nothing in the text rules out Numenorian fusion power. It's certainly a retelling of Atlantis, and Tolkien's source material had Oriculum. He just didn't really develop that material, presumably because he was more interested in Saxon myth than Greek.</p><p></p><p>This is an interesting observation. Has Star Trek coloured the way we see elves, and hence how they have been portrayed in the PJ movies and this TV show? In <em>The Hobbit </em>(novel) we see elves joking and teasing, singling frivolous songs, having wild parties in the middle of spider infested woods, and drinking themselves into a stupor on wine. They are largely serious in LotR, but that's because the circumstance are dire. In the animated movie Legolas (voiced by Anthony C3PO Daniels if I remember correctly) was characterised quite differently to the Orlando Bloom version. Tolkien left the character pretty underwritten, so wide open to interpretation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 9476873, member: 6906155"] You can add to that list [I]The Fellowship of the Ring[/I]. Does anyone [I]not[/I] think that cutting Glorfindel and giving his part to Arwen, rather than having her as someone who just sits around doing embroidery did not improve on the original text? No, the dates really don't matter. They happened in the past, and that is all that matters for the PJ movies. Nothing in the text rules out Numenorian fusion power. It's certainly a retelling of Atlantis, and Tolkien's source material had Oriculum. He just didn't really develop that material, presumably because he was more interested in Saxon myth than Greek. This is an interesting observation. Has Star Trek coloured the way we see elves, and hence how they have been portrayed in the PJ movies and this TV show? In [I]The Hobbit [/I](novel) we see elves joking and teasing, singling frivolous songs, having wild parties in the middle of spider infested woods, and drinking themselves into a stupor on wine. They are largely serious in LotR, but that's because the circumstance are dire. In the animated movie Legolas (voiced by Anthony C3PO Daniels if I remember correctly) was characterised quite differently to the Orlando Bloom version. Tolkien left the character pretty underwritten, so wide open to interpretation. [/QUOTE]
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