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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Primitive Word Magic
Oh, for crying out loud! Peter Jackson and Company just had to do it! I mean, just when I thought we had driven a wooden stake through undead heart of this ludicrous elf-chick-in-The-Hobbit idea, that awful, queasy feeling in the pit of the stomach returns:
"... the biggest news is LOST star Evangeline Lilly will be Tauriel. PJ describes Tauriel as a Woodland Elf, ‘Her name means ‘daughter of Mirkwood’ and, beyond that, we must leave you guessing! (No, there is no romantic connection to Legolas.)‘ "Just for starters, the calendar entry in Appendix B of The Lord of the Rings for the year 1050 states: "About this time a shadow falls on Greenwood, and men begin to call it Mirkwood"So I must inquire why any elf of Greenwood Forest would have a name derived from what men only began to call the same forest after it became infected by the "evil power" that had "made a stronghold at Dol Guldur." I mean, wouldn't a real (and really old) elf have a name like "Daughter of Greenwood" and not something that -- etymologically -- sounds more like "Daughter of the Necromancer" or "Daughter of Sauron"? Wouldn't all of the other elves just call her "Mirky" for short, because of the shadow that seems to follow her everywhere she goes? Come to think of it, if this newly-relabeled Itaril (I mean "Tauriel") has a name derived from what men called the forest after it became evil, then wouldn't that make the newly-relabeled elf-chick less than 1050 years old (assuming that elves get their names at birth) and a mere child among that immortal race? Just think about this for a minute -- and it shouldn't take much longer than that -- and you can see the sloppy thinking and disregard for Tolkien's created world that went into this bogus "name." Furthermore, putting purely linguistic considerations aside (which Professor Tolkien would never have done), the forcible injecting of an unnecessary elf-chick into an adolescent English schoolboy story like The Hobbit sounds as heretical as letting Vicky Vale into the Bat Cave or Lois Lane into the Fortress of Solitude. Some things you just don't do without undermining the entire foundation of the genre. The whole idea sounds stupid, and the stupid new name for "stupid" -- i.e., "idiotic" -- sounds just as dumb. A pseudonym by any other misnomer would stlll stink as badly.
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Gruesome Spectre
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Tauriel would mean 'forest-daughter', not really green or mirk.
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Of Peudonyms for Misnomers
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Gruesome Spectre
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Pfft. They might as well just call her Arwen. The motives for greatly exaggerating her part in LOTR and making up a female elf character for The Hobbit would appear to be the same.
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Time for a Bladder Break
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If nothing else, though, I now know when to get up and take a bladder break during the films.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
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I don't care what they call her: she remains the same nauseatingly-obnoxious detestable story-ruining -...you-name-it...- extra useless character that has no business in the real TH.
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I think PJ is prejudiced against elves, and wants to make everyone else hate them too.
![]() ![]() Also, I'm more scared now then I was when I thought Itaril/Tauriel was Legolas's love interest...if she isn't his love interest, then she's likely someone else's. Which quite frankly scares me. If she ends up being Thranduil/Bilbo/Bard's love interest, I'm taking a knife to the screen. Same if she ends up being the one to slay Smaug/sneak the dwarves out of the dungeons/rescue them from the goblins.
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Popeye's Existential Conundrum
It seems clear to me that this re-branded demographic loss-leader of a "character" suffers from Popeye's Existential Conundrum:
"If I'm not me, who am I? And if I'm somebody else, then why do I look like me?"Recruiting this actress from the cast of the TV-movie "Lost" does seem rather appropriate, though, if one has a taste for unintended irony.
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
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When I heard the new name I thought of the geometrical shape a toros (like a ring doughnut) . Is maybe not inappropriate - a shape without proper substance and a heart and torus being Latin for cushion - I mean this is part of the padding needed to turn a short book into two long films. KERching!!!
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Tauriel? Tauriel!
No elven name can hide the smell. That sulfur stench from fan-fic wells Up from Jackson's scripting Hell.
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