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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 540397" data-attributes="member: 363">The thing is, as others have pointed out, it seems like Grima is too...villainous looking. I like Brad Dourif, but I guess I've seen him in so many roles where he plays a craven or sinister or simply insane character that it seems like the casting of him for Wormtongue was typecasting. It would have been more interesting had he been someone you naturally want to trust, or someone who was very magnetic. Apparently he had to have those qualities, since Theoden fell under his sway, and Theoden wasn't a dummy. He comes off that way in the book initially mostly because we see him through the eyes of Eomer and Eowyn, who have seen through his lies. I'm not saying it was horrible casting, just that it would have been interesting to see Dourif play against type if he was going to be in this film anyway. Heck, maybe even as Elrond (which I also thought was well-cast; I'm just thinking out loud). He has an odd, otherworldy air about him, and it's hard to place his age. Of course, one could rationalize that Grima was, indeed, as magnetic as he must have been to influence Theoden some time back, and descended gradually into how he looks in the film.I think Walken is still very capable of giving strong performances. He just hasn't been cast in much of anything good lately.</blockquote>