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Old 09-21-2011, 07:40 PM   #1
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According to this, Alfrid is "The Master of Laketown's 'conniving' servant".

So, it wasn't enough to invent one character, eh Mr. Jackson?
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Old 09-21-2011, 08:03 PM   #2
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But don't you get it, Zil? It's Grima's father!
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But don't you get it, Zil? It's Grima's father!
You know, sad as it is, the parallel with Wormtongue did cross my mind.

I really don't get the reasoning here. Is the Master himself not conniving enough on his own?
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They should have just named the character Anni-Frid, and had her be a female member of a traveling minstrel troupe. Now that's script engineering.
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I really don't get the reasoning here. Is the Master himself not conniving enough on his own?
Remember that it's PJ we're talking about.

I don't get the reasoning either, but there's just so much to complain about in his "Tolkien" movies that I'm tired of complaining.
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That's moreMoreMORE Jackson, if you please.
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About this Alfrid, I see more PJ and friends mucking with TH:
[QUOTE]Ryan Gage as Alfrid:[34] The Master of Laketown's "conniving" servant. Gage was originally cast to play Drogo Baggins, father of Frodo Baggins. According to Jackson, "Ryan is a great young actor who we originally cast in a small role, but we liked him so much, we promoted him to the much larger Alfrid part."[/QUOTE]

Not only invent a new character but make it a "much larger" part.

Well, like dwarf tossing in the LOTR movies, with PJ
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