Does anyone still give a crap about Lord Of The Rings?

[Casual Shinji]

I care about LotR a great deal.

Don't really know how I feel about this new movie though. A bit anxious, I guess.

 

[Casual Shinji]

See the thing about Peter Jackson's film making is that he's very sentimental and he loves making throwbacks to his previous films. For example, in King Kong one of the animal cages in the ship is labeled "Sumatran Rat Monkey" and anyone who's seen Braindead/Dead Alive might get that reference. Also casting Sean Astin as Sam was a somewhat sentimental decision as Jackson worked with his father, John Astin in The Frightners, (and Sean's daughter appeared as a Hobbit child in Return of the King meaning Jackson has worked with three generations of the Astin family.) Also, like Alfred Hitchcock, he appears in all his films. The Hobbit gives him licence to indulge a little bit by including characters from the LotR films that may only ever had minor roles if any at all in The Hobbit and Legolas is a good example.

Ooh, a reference post!

How about the Dimholt Road in Return of the King? It's the same area where they shot the opening scene for Braindead.

 

[Littaly]

...So... they're adding Legolas and a bunch of other characters to appease the squealing fangirls who want to watch pretty blonde elves bounce around in tights? And just all out making up characters?

Ugh.

I don't think that's the case, at least I don't think that's the reason he's in it. And someone please correct me if I have my facts wrong here.

- minor spoilers ahead -

Legolas is the prince of the elves that Bilbo and the dwarves encounter in The Hobbit. He's not actually in the book, but there is nothing that contradicts him being there, on the contrary, it makes perfect sense that he would be there. The main reason (I assume) that he doesn't make an appearance in the book, is because Lord of the Rings wasn't even thought of by the time The Hobbit was written, so either his character didn't exist at the time, or it wasn't known that he would eventually come to play a bigger role.

Pretty much the same thing goes for Saruman, Elrond and Galadriel, they are actually involved in some pretty significant stuff during the events of The Hobbit, but the stuff is never mentioned in the book, instead you get a re-telling of it in Fellowship of the Ring.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is, yeah, Legolas appearing will probably make the fangirls happy, but I don't think that's why he's in it.

 

[standokan]

I read the title and was like already getting my rage up but thank you I needed a new wallpaper.