[Avie]

My favourite (film) character is Gandalf. Ian McKellern just does such a brilliant job of conveying the complexity and depth of the character and even the horrible, jarring duel-with-Saruman scene in FOTR dosen't spoil his performance...gahhhh...what WAS PJ thinking to include that? he might as well have had them play a game of quidditch while he was about it...
Pet peeves include Faramir (O! Pray rescue me from the highest room of the tallest tower...etc etc...), Denethor (He's behind you! ) and and I'm probably gonna get royally flamed for this....Legolas. Easy on the eye but Orlando Bloom is more wooden than an entire Moot of Ents.
I also think that Hugo Weaving was horribly miscast as Elrond. He looks all wrong and his characterisation comes across as sinister and manipulative, for example, not telling Arwen that he had foreseen a son. His motives for doing this are certainly understandable, but I feel it undermines the integrity of the character.