Laughter vs. Seriousness - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

dunedain_aragorn · 01-04-2003, 02:50 PM

In the movie Aragorn is *mostly* serious. In the book he was laughing and smiling MUCH more. He even joked, and laughed in Bree in the book! I'm not saying giving another reason why I am mad at them not staying true to the book,(I LOVED ttt)I'm just saying Aragorn should have been lighter. I mean, he IS a very serious character, and I like him that way, but maybe he could have smiled a BIT more. Does anyone else notice this with Aragorn and other characters?

eleanor_niphredil · 01-04-2003, 03:02 PM

Yeah, I noticed it with legolas. What has he got to be sad about? He landed himself in the Fellowship. Personaly, I would kill to get a place in the fellowship. In the book everyone was much more light-hearted.

Armani_Elf · 01-05-2003, 10:15 AM

a book can never be like a film. same goes vice versa. peace

Merri · 01-05-2003, 10:53 AM

I don't know . . . I'm not sure I would be very happy if I had been chosen to go on the Fellowship. I'm the kind of girl who'd rather stay at home, curled up by the fire reading a good book. Adventures are nice to read about, but not nice to live through But I think the seriousness is fitting- after all, they didn't have much to laugh about. In my opinion, Gimli added enough cheerfulness to the movie, though I would have liked Merry and Pippin to be a little more cheerful, as they're usually the pranksters.

LOTR_know-it-all55 · 01-05-2003, 12:10 PM

Aragorn smiled when Gandalf winked at least. Legolas smiled when Gimli couldn't see over the wall. But I do see reason for them not to be soo happy they are at war with the greatest evil in Middle-Earth and could be going to certain death. Not to say that I wouldn't give anything to be able to do something like that..

Cherie Centaur · 01-05-2003, 12:48 PM

I always thought some of them (like Legolas) needed to lighten up. A little off the subject but where's all the singing? Aragorn has sung only once so far and only in the Extended Version. Legolas, the Elf, hasn't sung once!!! Poor Tolkien having to do all that rhyming and no one will put one song in the movies. 'Tis so sad.

dunedain_aragorn · 01-05-2003, 12:55 PM

Exactly Cherie Centaur! And when Aragorn sang, he was all sad! In the book he was kinda sad, but he was telling them a tale! Ooh yeah, everybody read my new signature, I larv (love) it!

aragornreborn · 01-05-2003, 01:03 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> everybody read my new signature, I larv (love) it! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yeah it is good. I've already sent it to all my friends to remind them how great Aragorn is. lol.Anyway, back on subject, yeah I think Aragorn should have been lighter. It would have worked, too, if they had spread out some of the humor so Gimli didn't get it all. In the movie, it seems like Aragorn is always sad or serious. Sure, he smiles a few times, but in the book he is more light-hearted. You can't live in such depressing times without having a lighter moment every now and then. So, I better here some jokes and laughter from him in TTT spec ed. and ROTK or... I don't know what I'll do.

Elanor · 01-05-2003, 03:07 PM

I thought Viggo Mortensen had a great smile and lovely twinkly eyes, and he did have a sense of humour! Ok, he wasn't joking around, but he was amused by things, and wasn't always serious.I hope they leave in the bit in the Houses of Healing with Merry, when he jokes about not bringing pipeweed to a careless hobbit. I don't expect that to make the cut though...

Gorwingel · 01-05-2003, 03:14 PM

Maybe they just made him extra serious because in the movie they don't have the time and so they need to get the point across quickly, that he is facing this great choice and everything.He did have some funny moments, like when Gimli is talking about the dwarf women, and when he meets Legolas for the first time after he falls over the cliff.

VanimaEdhel · 01-05-2003, 03:44 PM

Erm...would you particularly have a desire to see any of them try to sing loudly? I mean Mr. Mortensen kind of sings in the Midgewater Marshes in the Extended Version, but I do not think any of them were really...well...voicetrained.I will be curious to see if they have Mr. Bloom sing the "To the Sea!" song towards the end of the RotK...And I actually found Legolas to be a bit abrasive in his...perkiness...in the books. He dances and sings a bit more than I could imagine anyone doing in a position such as that he is in. I mean, if they do not destroy this ring, *Poof!* evil wins and Middle Earth becomes dark and evil. I do not think he was so naive as to not think about this...

Arwen Imladris · 01-05-2003, 04:18 PM

What did legolas care? He could just escape any time and go off to Valinor. I don't mean to put down Legolas, but he has a much better reason to be happy than Aragorn.

eleanor_niphredil · 01-06-2003, 12:55 AM

Merry and Pippin had a little singing bit in the extended version as well, but I agree that I would not want to hear the others sing. And feel free to put Legolas down, I do it all the time!

The Silver-shod Muse · 01-06-2003, 12:12 PM

I do hope that Legolas sings his Sea song! Even if Bloom can't sing, it isn't difficult to overlay someone else's voice so it sounds like Legolas. <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Adventures are nice to read about, but not nice to live through <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Merri, you sound like Bilbo before he went away with the dwarves to slay Smaug in Erebor. You might have an adventure yet!

sassyfriend · 09-02-2011, 02:34 PM

Loved when Aragorn got that look of laughter on his face when Merry and Pippin tackled Boromir to the ground. I laugh when that comes on. But Yes it would've been nice to see Aragorn and Legolas and even Boromir smile/laugh more!!!!!

Lotrelf · 03-30-2014, 05:15 AM

Like book, they didn't have enough time and strength. Time, 'cause everything happened very quickly; and, strength because movie characters are too 'human' to be like the book ones.

01-04-2003, 02:50 PM	#1
dunedain_aragorn Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: a Mcdonald's Happy Meal Posts: 47	Laughter vs. Seriousness In the movie Aragorn is mostly serious. In the book he was laughing and smiling MUCH more. He even joked, and laughed in Bree in the book! I'm not saying giving another reason why I am mad at them not staying true to the book,(I LOVED ttt)I'm just saying Aragorn should have been lighter. I mean, he IS a very serious character, and I like him that way, but maybe he could have smiled a BIT more. Does anyone else notice this with Aragorn and other characters? __________________ "I must take leave, I have not slept since Dunnharrow, and I am weary."said Aragorn. Merry seized his hand and kissed it."I am frightfully sorry, we have been a nuisance to you since Bree." Aragorn laughed and left them. "Was there ever any like him?" said Pippin,"Except for Gandalf of course. I believe they must be related."

01-04-2003, 03:02 PM	#2
eleanor_niphredil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: england Posts: 805	Yeah, I noticed it with legolas. What has he got to be sad about? He landed himself in the Fellowship. Personaly, I would kill to get a place in the fellowship. In the book everyone was much more light-hearted. __________________ Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to spend my time on this forum. And by the way, for any of you turning into a penguin, stop it. ~* I am Pippin took in the Female Fellowship*~

01-05-2003, 10:15 AM	#3
Armani_Elf Animated Skeleton Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: a mere Ghostly Wanderer Posts: 29	a book can never be like a film. same goes vice versa. <P>peace __________________ An elf in an Armani suit

01-05-2003, 10:53 AM	#4
Merri Wight Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Shire Posts: 221	I don't know . . . I'm not sure I would be very happy if I had been chosen to go on the Fellowship. I'm the kind of girl who'd rather stay at home, curled up by the fire reading a good book. Adventures are nice to read about, but not nice to live through <P>But I think the seriousness is fitting- after all, they didn't have much to laugh about. In my opinion, Gimli added enough cheerfulness to the movie, though I would have liked Merry and Pippin to be a little more cheerful, as they're usually the pranksters. __________________ Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon. -Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card.

01-05-2003, 12:10 PM	#5
LOTR_know-it-all55 Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Meduseld Posts: 46	Aragorn smiled when Gandalf winked at least. Legolas smiled when Gimli couldn't see over the wall. But I do see reason for them not to be soo happy they are at war with the greatest evil in Middle-Earth and could be going to certain death. Not to say that I wouldn't give anything to be able to do something like that.. __________________ Legolas Greenleaf, long under tree in joy thou hast lived.Beware of the Sea! If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore, thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more.

01-05-2003, 12:48 PM	#6
Cherie Centaur Haunting Spirit Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cottage Cheese near the Gap Posts: 95	I always thought some of them (like Legolas) needed to lighten up. A little off the subject but where's all the singing? Aragorn has sung only once so far and only in the Extended Version. Legolas, the Elf, hasn't sung once!!! Poor Tolkien having to do all that rhyming and no one will put one song in the movies. 'Tis so sad. __________________ Why do we let the monkey slide for popping the weasel? Just because he thought it was fun? Guys, we're dealing with a psycho.

01-05-2003, 12:55 PM	#7
dunedain_aragorn Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: a Mcdonald's Happy Meal Posts: 47	Exactly Cherie Centaur! And when Aragorn sang, he was all sad! In the book he was kinda sad, but he was telling them a tale! Ooh yeah, everybody read my new signature, I larv (love) it! __________________ "I must take leave, I have not slept since Dunnharrow, and I am weary."said Aragorn. Merry seized his hand and kissed it."I am frightfully sorry, we have been a nuisance to you since Bree." Aragorn laughed and left them. "Was there ever any like him?" said Pippin,"Except for Gandalf of course. I believe they must be related."

01-05-2003, 01:03 PM	#8
aragornreborn Wight Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 182	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> everybody read my new signature, I larv (love) it! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Yeah it is good. I've already sent it to all my friends to remind them how great Aragorn is. lol.<P>Anyway, back on subject, yeah I think Aragorn should have been lighter. It would have worked, too, if they had spread out some of the humor so Gimli didn't get it all. In the movie, it seems like Aragorn is always sad or serious. Sure, he smiles a few times, but in the book he is more light-hearted. You can't live in such depressing times without having a lighter moment every now and then. So, I better here some jokes and laughter from him in TTT spec ed. and ROTK or... I don't know what I'll do. __________________ At the name of Jesus every knee should bow and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. - Phil. 2:10-11

01-05-2003, 03:07 PM	#9
Elanor Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: my own corner of the Shire Posts: 316	I thought Viggo Mortensen had a great smile and lovely twinkly eyes, and he did have a sense of humour! Ok, he wasn't joking around, but he was amused by things, and wasn't always serious.<P>I hope they leave in the bit in the Houses of Healing with Merry, when he jokes about not bringing pipeweed to a careless hobbit. I don't expect that to make the cut though... __________________ "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman (1906 - )

01-05-2003, 03:14 PM	#10
Gorwingel Beholder of the Mists Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Somewhere in the Northwest... for now Posts: 1,419	Maybe they just made him extra serious because in the movie they don't have the time and so they need to get the point across quickly, that he is facing this great choice and everything.<P>He did have some funny moments, like when Gimli is talking about the dwarf women, and when he meets Legolas for the first time after he falls over the cliff. __________________ Wanted - Wonderfully witty quote that consists of pure brilliance

01-05-2003, 03:44 PM	#11
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Erm...would you particularly have a desire to see any of them try to sing loudly? I mean Mr. Mortensen kind of sings in the Midgewater Marshes in the Extended Version, but I do not think any of them were really...well...voicetrained.<P>I will be curious to see if they have Mr. Bloom sing the "To the Sea!" song towards the end of the RotK...<P>And I actually found Legolas to be a bit abrasive in his...perkiness...in the books. He dances and sings a bit more than I could imagine anyone doing in a position such as that he is in. I mean, if they do not destroy this ring, Poof! evil wins and Middle Earth becomes dark and evil. I do not think he was so naive as to not think about this... __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes

01-05-2003, 04:18 PM	#12
Arwen Imladris Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a box with a fox Posts: 1,347	What did legolas care? He could just escape any time and go off to Valinor. I don't mean to put down Legolas, but he has a much better reason to be happy than Aragorn. __________________ "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up, sleepies, we must go, yes, we must go at once."

01-06-2003, 12:55 AM	#13
eleanor_niphredil Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: england Posts: 805	Merry and Pippin had a little singing bit in the extended version as well, but I agree that I would not want to hear the others sing.<BR>And feel free to put Legolas down, I do it all the time! __________________ Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to spend my time on this forum. And by the way, for any of you turning into a penguin, stop it. ~* I am Pippin took in the Female Fellowship*~

01-06-2003, 12:12 PM	#14
The Silver-shod Muse Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The shoulder of a poet, TX Posts: 388	I do hope that Legolas sings his Sea song! Even if Bloom can't sing, it isn't difficult to overlay someone else's voice so it sounds like Legolas.<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Adventures are nice to read about, but not nice to live through <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Merri, you sound like Bilbo before he went away with the dwarves to slay Smaug in Erebor. You might have an adventure yet! __________________ "'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis

09-02-2011, 02:34 PM	#15
sassyfriend Wight Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 165	Loved when Aragorn got that look of laughter on his face when Merry and Pippin tackled Boromir to the ground. I laugh when that comes on. But Yes it would've been nice to see Aragorn and Legolas and even Boromir smile/laugh more!!!!!

03-30-2014, 05:15 AM	#16
Lotrelf Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2014 Posts: 265	Like book, they didn't have enough time and strength. Time, 'cause everything happened very quickly; and, strength because movie characters are too 'human' to be like the book ones. __________________ A short saying oft contains much wisdom. ~Sophocles