05-05-2003, 11:34 PM | #21 |
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Please keep discussion of the movies to the movies forum.
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05-06-2003, 10:50 AM | #24 |
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I think readers dislike Legolas because he may seem relatively useless to to the fellowship, and because he isn't the coolest, badassest character. And many people don't like movie Legolas because "he doesn't even do anything and he's the only one you hear about." Frankly they're jealous. Perhaps.
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Uh, Lai...
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I didn't make this ambiguous thread. It's not quite clear if it is about book or movie.
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05-06-2003, 04:26 PM | #27 |
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As I was reading this, I was going to make the same comment as Khamul, but he beat me to it. If I had seen this when it was only the first two posts, I would have moved it to the other forum, but since then the discussion has turned from ambiguity to being basically about the character of Legolas (with a tangent discussion about Aragorn), so I'm leaving it here. Comments about movie Legolas can be made in one of the several threads about him in that forum.
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05-08-2003, 01:34 PM | #28 |
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i'm sorry this turned out to be a movie thread but i'd just like to say that (as a last say sort of thing) Legolas (Orlando Bloom) only did nothing in the film because it was his flippin' first film.
He's a newbie just like me.
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There's no need to apologize -- I was just remarking that since it was placed here and the discussion has been less about the movie that I would be leaving it here.
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the character of Legolas in the book wasn't too often mentioned (so I guess he wasn't that important in the movie either) ... we don't know that much about him
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05-08-2003, 05:21 PM | #31 |
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the reason people think this is because legolas got a horriable part. i mean, to anyone who hasnt read the books and reliazed that he is REALLY cool and aragon the same. i dont go on either sides but the part in the movie (for legolas) sucked while aragons rocked hard core!
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05-08-2003, 05:25 PM | #32 |
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I guess that had to have a main character (which was almost Aragorn). but we shoud go back to the book, really
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Allright, my restraint is failing.
Everybody, this thread is in the books forum. Either /stuff/ the films or get a mod to move this thread. Sowwy bout dat, folks.
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I thought the book Legolas was very funny.
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Well, you see, the problem with that is that we have a strict policy here that ALL discussion of the movies be confined to the movie forum (see thread at top of this forum), since really, the movie is just an interpretation of TLotR. This forum is exclusively for discussion of the book, and the movie has no relevance here. That is why any movie discussion is confined to that forum.
So as I said, the course of this particular discussion led us to analyzing the character of Legolas and his relations with the other members of the Fellowship. That is a perfectly legitimate discussion, and logically fits here. Again, the movie is irrelevant here (IOW, it is not appropriate to use movie Legolas in analyses of the book or in defense of arguments pertaining to the books, because the movie isn't the source material. Conversely, we do use instances from the book when discussing the movie in its forum, because the book is the source material.) There are, as I said, at least two or three threads in the movie forum that would be entirely appropriate to discuss Legolas as he is portrayed in the movies, and I encourage anyone who wishes to do so to, well, do so! But posting about the movie here makes no sense, because in this forum we discuss the books! Now doesn't that make sense, everyone? BTW, welcome to Entmoot, IthilienPrincess. |
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It makes sense, of course.
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Sad, isn't it, that some people only watch those (erhem) movies without reading the books...But it's their own choice.
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