Age change in Théoden - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

William Cloud Hicklin · 01-15-2008, 07:43 AM

StW, now you're getting insulting. This debate has never been about geek-trivia and you know it. I couldn't give a rodent's patootie whether somebody's hair color is 'correct'.

The issue (or one of many issues) is meddling with characters, and it's an essential aspect of Theoden's personality in his last weeks that he be elderly. His spirit is willing, but his flesh weak: something that PBW got precisely backwards. His feats on the Pelennor are supposed to be *amazing* to the reader/audience, given his geriatricity.

(Besides, you don't have to cast an elderly actor to play an old man!)

01-15-2008, 07:43 AM	#4
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	StW, now you're getting insulting. This debate has never been about geek-trivia and you know it. I couldn't give a rodent's patootie whether somebody's hair color is 'correct'. The issue (or one of many issues) is meddling with characters, and it's an essential aspect of Theoden's personality in his last weeks that he be elderly. His spirit is willing, but his flesh weak: something that PBW got precisely backwards. His feats on the Pelennor are supposed to be amazing to the reader/audience, given his geriatricity. (Besides, you don't have to cast an elderly actor to play an old man!) __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.