Hugo Weaving is NOT Elrond

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Wendy" 
<hebrideanblack at e...> wrote:
>> Wendy:
> 
> Heh heh heh . . . I still can't get over it. I am *totally* 
creeped 
> out by Elrond in the films. And the thing is, I hadn't seen any of 
> the Matrix films until about a month ago, so my creeped-outness by 
> this actor is unconnected. I'm not sure if I ever saw him in 
> anything else and don't remember, or if he just comes across as 
> creepy to me in general. But it's creating trouble for me with the 
> LotR movies. My husband keeps telling me that Elrond is cool, and 
> trustworthy . . . but I just DON'T believe it. He creeps me out! 
> Evil! (I'm speaking here as someone who *has* read the trilogy and 
> so should know these things, but it's been more than 15 years ago, 
> and I honestly don't remember how it ends).

Speaking as a total Tolkein nerd, I have to say, Hugo Weaving is 
miscast.  By the time of Fellowship of the Ring - Elrond is second  
highest ranked Elf after Galadriel.  He's not a pureblood (there's 
that word again!) elf - because his father Earendil was the product 
of a union between an Elf Princess and a mortal man (no not the 
Beren and Luthien one).  In the books, Elrond is warm, humane and 
wise.  He does not hate the race of men as seems to be being said in 
the films.  Now don't get me wrong - I love the films and I believe 
Peter Jackson is deliberately setting up Elrond as anti-mortal so 
that there is dramatic tension about the Aragorn-Arwen thing, but 
there is a big difference between the character in the movies and 
the one in the books.
> 
> On a related note, yesterday I finally saw the LotR trailer (when 
> seeing Matrix Revloutions, LOL). And it made me cry. Gah. I'm 
going 
> to be a wreck. I cried at least 5 times watching TT (I really got 
> going while Smeagol/Gollum fought with himself). I think the new 
> film is going to be worse. If I'm already sobbing at just 45 
seconds 
> of thrown-together scenes . . . . ARGH! I think I'd better bring a 
> box of tissues to the cinema with me. ::grin::
> 
> :-)
> Wendy

One calendar month to go today... and really counting.  And if any 
of you found Helms Deep heavy, wait til you see the Battle of the 
Pelennor Fields.  There is also a documentary on the making of this 
battle at Newline's LOTR site.

June