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Second-guessing and Misunderstanding Tolkien

Deimos said:
On a side note: I see that you have the movie Holmes saying "Elementary, my dear Watson".
That leads me to believe that you are aware that the book Holmes never said it.
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To start with your second assumption, I'm practically certain I've never read anything by Conan Doyle.
What I do have is a 14-DVD box of the Rathbone / Bruce films spanning 1939 to 1946.
I haven't watched anything close to all of them, as I had the impression the wartime scripts took a steep nose-dive.
 
Look into the UK production of Sherlock Holmes 1984 -1994, with Jeremy Brett as Holmes.
I've seen a lot of "movie Holmes" and he comes incredibly close to the Doyle character, the closest by far.
And the stories are also true to Doyle's.
 
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Deimos said:
Look into the UK production of Sherlock Holmes 1984 -199, with Jeremy Brett as Holmes.
I've seen a lot of "movie Holmes" and he comes incredibly close to the Doyle character, the closest by far.
And the stories are also true to Doyle's.
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SECONDED! Jeremy Brett is amazing.
 
ZehnWaters said:
SECONDED! Jeremy Brett is amazing.
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A little Jeremy Brett trivia....which some of you may already know.

I was unfamiliar with him when I began watching the Holmes series (or thought I was).
Upon doing a little research I discovered that he played "Freddy" ( the love interest) in the 1964 movie "My Fair Lady" (Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn).
His "singing" in that movie, btw, is dubbed.
 
Radaghast said:

Thread derailment alert!

Yeah, Brett was the best, but I wish they'd have started him as Holmes at least half a decade earlier.
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Very much so. lol with my brother, I recently started "casting" for a Star Wars prequel trilogy that was made PRIOR to the Original Trilogy (so the prequel films if they were made in '52, '55, & '58). We cast Jeremy Brett as teenage Anakin Skywalker (provided he could pull off an American accent).
lol I did! I recognized him while watching it one time. I'm not surprised they dubbed in a voice for him, they did for Audrey Hepburn too.
 
Glorfindel Goldtress said:
Are Elrond and Arwen related? https://www.quora.com/Are-Elrond-and-Arwen-related?share=1
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It would appear that there are quite a few idiots, asking the same question.
Who are Elrond Half-elven and Arwen, and how are they related?
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How were Arwen and Elrond related? Did they have different mothers or the same mother?
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And look at one of the answers to this question!
 
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