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Originally Posted by Bêthberry
Pre-cise-ly! It's that bald patch on the top, then. A braid to pull the sides up to cover it.
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Ah, another sign of age, ma'am, is the gradual loss of acuity. One might take a closer look at said picture to note that, just like on Orlando's bean, there is no recession there, whether sides or top. If you're looking for Amon Rûdh, you have a better chance with a map.
And, speaking of acuity, I would also note that as one gets older, mental acuity too feels the effects of time (read my posts if you're not sure). Maybe this is why, in the movie, Elrond drones on and on about the Battle of the Last Alliance and what that 'man' Isildur didn't do, so many years hence - few know now what he's even talking about. Legolas, in contrast, keeps his monologuing to a sentence or two. That being said...
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I keep forgetting that you New Order Mods probably don't know the heyday of REB, the infamous rpg Return of the Entish Bow and Revenge of the Entish Bow. It's probably a good thing many fangirls didn't read it, as what was done to Movie Legolas might have turned them into death-threatening maenads. We would have had letters from The Society for the Prevention of Cruel Stereotypes Towards Hair Stylists as well.
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Clear as mud.
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Originally Posted by Imladris
as I've said -- translating a book to a movie doesn't work. There are bookish elements and there are movie elements and the elves, I think, are decidedly bookish.
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Can't say that I agree. The elves could have been portrayed better. Legolas became a one-note assassin, and the elves at Helm's Deep were just cannon fodder. Lothlorien was too brief and too dark. We could have learned more about the elves via Legolas or Arwen as (1) we got to know these characters through the 12+ hours of the movie, and (2) PJ could have, using Gimli and Aragorn respectively, shown us why the elves were different. There were scenes that could have been cut to make time for an elf mini-micro-documentary. Just a few moments, now and then, to show how Legolas or Arwen viewed this Middle Earth.
Don't hate them because they are beautiful...