Defend OOTP against my horribly Muggle mind!

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> > evangelina839 at y... writes:
> 
> > as I was saying, near as I can tell Tolkien's works are WORLD 
> driven.  The 
> > characters are props.  Look for descriptions of people in the 
> books.  The main 
> > characters.  Legolas gets Blond, and bright-eyed and that's 
pretty 
> much it.  
> > Oh, and he has a nice voice, and he talks to trees so much he 
> sounds mildly 
> > scitzo.
> > 
> > Did I mention that Almost ALL (namely the ones he actually 
> mentions) elves 
> > are described as having a nice voice and being bright-eyed?
> > 
> 
"Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

> That is patronising to the elves. Legolas is a lot more than that. 
> All the peoples of LOTR are fleshed out with their own 
> characteristics, specch patterns, idiocyncracies etc.
> 
Me:
I really don't want to debate JRRT with JKR because all to often I am 
defending Harry on my Tolkien site and Fantasy lit in general to my 
all to snobby friends (of course, I did hang around with them through 
college and grad school so debating is a little fun ;) ) Anyway I 
wanted to make the quick point that if you would have read the 
discription of Legolas a little closer you would have noticed that he 
does not even have blonde hair...it was changed for the movie a la 
Dursley...so if you are going to make a point regarding a book using 
one example, the example better be founded. Imagine the posts among 
Tolkien geeks when the movie came out! You think this board nitpicks! 
ha! 
Anyway, I agree with Geoff. The characters in LTR and beyond 
(Tolkien's world streches to more than three/four books) are so 
developed they have there own bloodlines/ histories /backgrounds /not 
read about in any book etc. In fact, most Tolkien fans believe that 
JKR got her idea of writing down all of the Characters histories 
first FROM Tolkien who was a master at this. (How many people know 
that Galadriel is Arwen's Grandmother?) The guy wrote languages for 
gosh sakes! Also, Frodo as a character has an inner battle unlike I 
have seen yet in HP. I am *hoping* to see it mind you, at this point 
in my life I apreciate JKR more than Tolkien because of the humor and 
lightheartedness along with the depth. *That* Tolkien has very little 
of!
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