[Failivrin]

i am sorry lord of angmar, it appeared that i had less time than i thought on the internet. so let me concentrate on the characters you mentioned and the ones i can remember saying were 'good' etc.

elrond: i thought he was good. i like hugo weaving as an actor because he is so varied. his performance of elrond is one of the ones i liked best in the whole movies (i actually thought he got it spot on) but the problem was the script. i really liked him FOTR but then the whole grey havens thing ruined it for me. that's why he was just 'good'.

aragorn: i tried to read LOTR when i was about 9, got bored and failed at the barrow downs. when the film came out i was die hard HP (oh the shame) and decided that i had better read LOTR all the same. the first thing i read was the children's movie guide so i could kind of associate it with teh book. i saw viggo mortensen an i thought he was pretty. then i read the book and his image seemed to fit that of aragorn in the book. that's why i liked him. i don't think he was 'amazing' because of that stupid accent that verges on english, american and danish much of the time.

eowyn: i didn't like her because i don't think miranda otto is a particularly good actress for this kind of film. like elijah wood, i don't think she has the depth to draw on for such a character. i always imagined eowyn as quitely suffering, whereas her performance seemed more obvious to me. i don't know, she just didn't click for me...

bilbo: many of you have expressed how delighted you were with ian holm's bilbo but he was another character that i just didn't find quite right. i can't quite put my finger on it, but i think it was the 'dramaticness' of his performance if you get my point. i don't know. i thought he was perfectly competent but he's not my kind of actor.

eomer: to be honest i wasn't that impressed with any of the new additions apart from wormtongue. i thought they were fine but they failed to make an impression. he was alright i suppose, but he wasn't EOMER.

i rag on merry and pippin because i don't like them. my point about mr boyd's scottish accent is that hobbits are menat to be from around warwickshire if we compare middle earth to the world. that is in england and they have an english accent there, not a scottish one. scottish is just as foreign as american. i just was not impressed with them. they weren't merry and pippin. they didn't impress me. they seemed to be there merely for comic relief. i DON'T think they're maturing nicely. they don't have that offhand, light tolkien humour of the two hobbits in flotsam and jetsam, they have stupid blockbuster slapstick humour. like the apple incident. it is irritating because i am a major tolkien purist and i can't cope with things being messed with. gimli's accent annoyed me because i couldn't decide whether it was welsh or scottish and he can't be from two places.

something i don't believe has been mentioned is the NAZGUL. what was with them? i mean the winged nazgul. i was always under the impression that they rode huge, contorted, grotesque bird like things, not dinosaurs. those things were DINOSAURS. there were no dinosaurs in middle earth. the other day i saw something the looked extremely like a pterodactyl in a film, but that might not have been TTT...