by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday September 19, 2012 @03:54PM (#41391483)
I haven't seen any of the trailers, but I read somewhere that they were adding a female Elf to the company, because it was too much of a sausage-fest. Please, please, please tell me that it's not true. It was bad enough that PJ added elves to the Battle of Helm's Deep. Most Jacksonisms I can live with, but changing the fundamental makeup of the company by adding an entirely new character is just too much.
Legolas is there logically; he just was not mentioned in "The Hobbit" as Tolkien had not yet created him.
"Prince" Legolas is the son of the Elven King, Thranduil of the wood elves who reside in north eastern Mirkwood. Like Aragorn he chose to go without his royal title and amenities until he felt he had earned it.
The addition of Tauriel, or more accurately, the naming and extrapolation of the captain of the woodland guard, is all Jackson's creation.
If I remember the hobbit correctly, that's going to pretty well F up the script WRT the dwarve / elve racial tensions.
Couldn't they have just added a teenage female human with a crossbow without screwing up the story too much? I heard all fantasy-type movies are now required to have one of those in the cast.
Are they really adding an Elf to the company? (Score:0)
I haven't seen any of the trailers, but I read somewhere that they were adding a female Elf to the company, because it was too much of a sausage-fest. Please, please, please tell me that it's not true. It was bad enough that PJ added elves to the Battle of Helm's Deep. Most Jacksonisms I can live with, but changing the fundamental makeup of the company by adding an entirely new character is just too much.
Captcha is "ranting". Am I, really?
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Wouldn't surprise me. He's making 3 movies out of it. How much extraneous crap is Jackson cramming into the story in order to get 3 movies?
Also, I heard Legolas is in this. God.
Re:Are they really adding an Elf to the company? (Score:5, Funny)
By the look of things, PJ could turn Gandalf taking a dump into an entire movie all its own. "Hnnnn...you...shall...not...pass...hnnn".
Re:Are they really adding an Elf to the company? (Score:4, Funny)
Wait, so Orlando Bloom's going to play a female elf?
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Legolas isnt a girl?
I thought she was always playing hard to get with the hairy midget from the lotr movies.
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Wouldn't surprise me. He's making 3 movies out of it. How much extraneous crap is Jackson cramming into the story in order to get 3 movies?
Also, I heard Legolas is in this. God.
That would not be implausible since he was the son of the King of the elves of Mirkwood.
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"Prince" Legolas is the son of the Elven King, Thranduil of the wood elves who reside in north eastern Mirkwood. Like Aragorn he chose to go without his royal title and amenities until he felt he had earned it.
The addition of Tauriel, or more accurately, the naming and extrapolation of the captain of the woodland guard, is all Jackson's creation.
Re:Are they really adding an Elf to the company? (Score:5, Funny)
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"One does not simply rewrite the story!"
Apparently you never watched Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy or touched the books.
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If I remember the hobbit correctly, that's going to pretty well F up the script WRT the dwarve / elve racial tensions.
Couldn't they have just added a teenage female human with a crossbow without screwing up the story too much? I heard all fantasy-type movies are now required to have one of those in the cast.
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Oh no. Please, I hope I'm getting this wrong, but I've got a real bad feeling I'm gonna be right about this:
I read somewhere that they were adding a female Elf to the company, because ...
... he thinks he's remaking "snow white and the seven dwarfs"