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Okay, now we're already deleting quotes from official interviews with the showrunners here? 😂
I didn't know that this is "forbidden language" here, seemed more like an idiomatic expression to me.
So of course my post doesn't make much sense anymore, so please click on the link and read the sentence of the interview before the remaining quote, too.
Anyone is welcome to post here, as long as they follow the rules. Some people seem to forget that TTF is a family-friendly forum. Sometimes reminders are necessary.
Who would have thought McKay would give such family-unfriendly interviews. I'm going to have to look a lot closer at what nasty things these showrunners are saying. 😉
I will say the turning of Tolkien's elves into super-heroes with a variety of powers is...upsetting. Galadriel has regularly scaled surfaces with minimal equipment. Legolas can Mario jump on falling stones and slide down Oliphant trunks. It's getting out of hand.
But he probably couldn't skateboard on shields, and Galadriel probably couldn't swim several thousand miles or climb a tower like Spiderman.
In any case, I'd like to see a Tolkien adaptation, not a new Marvel superhero.
Anyway, much worse is that so far Galadriel is portrayed as a toxic man who happens to look like a woman.
To me, that seemed like less of a super-power and more of a benefit due to his unusual lightness of weight. I may be wrong, but that was what I concluded after seeing it.
To me, that seemed like less of a super-power and more of a benefit due to his unusual lightness of weight. I may be wrong, but that was what I concluded after seeing it.
Yes, it is an elvish trait, not a superpower (except as viewed by jealous humans). It is in the book too. Legolas walked on top of the snow on Caradhras while the others struggled with the drifts.
To me, that seemed like less of a super-power and more of a benefit due to his unusual lightness of weight. I may be wrong, but that was what I concluded after seeing it.
My interpretation of Legolas walking on top of the snow was always that elves have a fundamentally different relationship with the world than us mortals. So, it's not that Legolas weighs less. More like he has some inherent "lightness of being".
If it was a question of simple physics, the Hobbits should have a great advantage walking around with those snow-shoe-sized feet.
You're joking right? Yes, of course you are.
You know very well why Legolas could walk on snow.
(Please tell me you do know why... please tell me that ...please...😱),
Strange (to me) that the films and the show give Hobbits unusually large feet [this is not based on Tolkien, as far as I read the descriptions], and also give them -- what I'd describe as a fairly sparse amount of foot hair -- at least for Hobbits.
Hobbit feet were not unusually large for their size, and they were "clad in a thick curling hair, much like the hair of their heads, which was commonly brown."
I say keep the fake feet off the actors, put more curly hair on their foots.
Strange (to me) that the films and the show give Hobbits unusually large feet [this is not based on Tolkien, as far as I read the descriptions], and also give them -- what I'd describe as a fairly sparse amount of foot hair -- at least for Hobbits.
Hobbit feet were not unusually large for their size, and they were "clad in a thick curling hair, much like the hair of their heads, which was commonly brown."
I say keep the fake feet off the actors, put more curly hair on their foots.