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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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This is a minor commentary on an aspect of
the film FOTR, somewhat exasperating because I think the picture of Isildur in the movie, both in the prologue and in other allusions and views of him later in the movie, are unneccesarily dismissive and, i think, inaccurate. While listening to a cd of The Silmarillion I noticed this positive exploit of Isildur in the Akallabeth (after Amandil worried about Sauron's influence on Ar-Pharazon) Quote:
thinking he could use the Ring. There he is depicted much more sympathetically, and likeably as someone willing to grow and admit errors. At least a faint glimpse of this Isildur might have been shown (assuming PJ and friends had had an interest in doing so- a rather large assumption) merely by showing some debate or hesitation with the Ring before keeping it and a somewhat less Boromir type portrayal of him in the prologue. Someone with only a movie knowledge of Middle-earth would think Isildur was a sort of doofus Dark Ages type chieftain- not one of the Faithful Numenoreans. It is irritating to me because it would have been just as easy (I think) to portray him more accurately.
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) he does show us a brief moment of Isildur debating with himself whether to put the Ring on. Remember when the orcs ambushed Isildur and his men Isildur rips the Ring from his neck and hesitatingly puts it on his finger.While I never considered Isildur to be entirely bad, I doubt it would be worth a flash back to when Isildur collected the seeds from the white tree.
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the three movies I really rewatch) but had forgotten it when posting above. Yes, I do like that hesitation.
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