Thranduil/Haldir. That's... a new one
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Thranduil/Haldir. That's... a new one
Thranduil/Haldir. That's... a new one
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i suppose i shouldn't be surprised tho i mean he's p much the bicycle
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thran that is
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haldir less so
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(you know I never saw the appeal of that one)
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haldir that is
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I understand a fair number of people did/do think he's hot but I just can't see it
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and he never looked quite... delicate, I guess? enough for an elf for me
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#UNPOPULAR OPINION
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I AGREE
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I DUNNO HE ALWAYS LOOKED SORT OF
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SQUARISH?
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i don't want to say chunky because he didn't look overweight and that's kind of how that word is normally taken
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same with thick
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but those are sort of the words i think of
ναℓєяу
.....solid? Sturdy?
ναℓєяу
Vs ethereal
ναℓєяу
?
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maybe that's a good way of putting it :|a
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not that elves can't be solid but man he just never looked like an elf to me and i didn't like the blonde wig
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IT'S FUNNY I THINK I MIGHT HAVE LIKED HIM BETTER WITH DARKER HAIR...
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No I agree with you - he always looked like a man dressed as an elf to me.
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yeah exactly
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elrond sort of the same - he looks too old to me. But Elrond being half-elf half-man is a good way to explain that away, and he's pretty much nailed in other regards
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celeborn could have pulled off looking like an elf if not for that freakin wig
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Arwen also to me seemed like a woman dressed as an elf. -- and oh god yes Celeborn's hair
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legolas looks quite elvish to me though, as does arwen, galadriel, thranduil
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really?
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I could buy Arwen as an elf
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she has that sort of air of timelessness
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CELEBORN'S WIG IS LEGITIMATELY ONE OF THE PARTS OF THOSE DARN MOVIES I HATE THE MOST
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IT MIGHT BE THE MOST but what was done to faramir is difficult to compete with tbqh
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It's Liv's jaw line and the overly plumped lips. There's a softness to her that seems ... less elvish to me, if that makes any sense?
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who greenlit that wig though that's what i want to know
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yeah, I guess I could see that
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I'm pretty okay with her looks and overall how she acts but man sometimes she just seems to be
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reciting elvish
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rather than speaking it
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not ALWAYS sometimes she acts like it's her first language but not always
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She's... rounded? I don't mean that in a bad way. She is positively gorgeous. But it's a beauty that seems very earthy and human to me as opposed to the more ethereal less earthiness that Bloom and Blanchett
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have.... There's something about their facial structures that seem less earthy to me.
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yeah I've always thought she has enough of an ethereal quality that I buy it
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Ah yeah - I imagine it must be hard to really speak elvish like you're uh... speaking it.
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but different strokes and all
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and yeah.....
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With Celeborn, it was his 5 o'clock shadow that didn't sell it for me......
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though man on that note let me take a moment to fangirl about thranduil
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lee pace, man 
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Elrond... I could buy him more because I felt like Weaving really carried the gravity and complicated nature of Elrond well, even if he does look too old and not timeless enough.
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and yeah I never saw a shadow but that freakin wig THAT WIG and then all of the elves are supposed to be all unearthly and such in the films when in the books he's.... really not, he's not that personality
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Lee pace... I still need to actually watch the second Hobbit film.
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and when he was allowed to be more intense it was much easier for me to buy he was an elf
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when he was all delicate and calm i didn't, really, but when he was being all intense i could genuinely see it
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AND OH MAN
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lee is perf okay
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like
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SO IN INTERVIEWS
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when it is just lee pace, you know, not in character or anything
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he pronounces Legolas like just about everyone does
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Leg-olas basically. When he's Thranduil his pronunciation changes
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to the elvish way of saying things
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it's like Laegoulahs
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more drawn out and poetic and softer
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/chinhands
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I'M JUST LIKE ARE YOU REAL
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he is one of the most perfectly cast actors imo
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because he is one of the very, very few who honestly sells me on being an elf
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galadriel does it
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legolas manages it sometimes
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thranduil though he strolled out of middle earth wearing power like a cloak
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bahaha that makes me actually want to watch that hobbit film. I didn't go see it in theaters because I just.... :/
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But I want to see Thranduil.
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he's perf
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it weirds me out a little how perf he is because a lot of the time he's flawlessly in character while the script is blatently out of character
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and i'm like ????
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That is impressive
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like he flawlessly embodied him
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and then as i was walking away I was like 'wait that script was actually.... he wouldn't actually..... ?????????????'
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there's a few lines that are weird to the point that i just can't make them work but OTHER THAN THAT