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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 540202" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>Walken has become too much of a caricature of himself and would have brought even more complaints than the casting of Elrond, IMO.  I think that Brad Dourif did a tremendous job as Grima.  In the short amount of screen time he actually had, he managed to pack quite a range of emotional and subtext.  My two favorite moments are his look when Eomer asks what he really wants from Saruman as his treasure, and the split second where he realizes the size of Saruman's Army.  You can almost hear him wondering if he helped create a monster  Though we all know Saruman would have managed with or without him, that particular take on the look speaks to Grima's arrogance even as he realizes that he has helped bring the destruction of his own race to Middle Earth (or so anyone would have thoughts upon viewing the masses of orcs).<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>