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Polly Sandybanks · 04-21-2002, 05:56 AM

I love the cast! I think they're all perfect. I hope the cast of the next two movies will be just as good.I think it was great that most of the cast were not that well-known before, at least not to me. I think that if PJ had chosen big hollywood movie stars, or whatever, it wouldn't have been the same. I love it just the way it is.I agree that Robin Williams would have been a good Tom Bombadill.. but not quite as I imagined him. Maybe if they made him a bit bigger and fatter. Hmm.. Someone gave some suggestions of actors if it were to be a comedy. If that was the case, I think that Rowan Atkinson would have made a perfect Frodo.. don't you!?

KingCarlton · 04-21-2002, 06:34 AM

Polly Sandybanks – Thank you for joining this thread. Woe is me…did I overlook the BEAN…oh woe indeed ! Yeah he’d be great alright but not as Frodo, but Elrond….yeah. Rowan Atkinson as Elrond in the comedic version. Oh yes, this is a fun outing and not a critique.Cheers !

Nevfeniel · 04-21-2002, 07:58 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Here’s a cast of Comedians if the movie were to be made as a comedy - <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hey! What about Jerry Seinfeld?!

KingCarlton · 04-22-2002, 04:24 AM

I did put Seinfeld in the initial line up draft but I bumped him off for Bill Murray as Elrond, and now I think Atkinson would make a better Elrond, if you've seen his 'Blackadder' you would agree.Seinfeld would make a good Eomer, wise cracking at Wormtongue and Aragorn.Cheers !

Aosama, the Wandering Star · 04-25-2002, 11:25 PM

I really liked this cast. I mean, it could have been just terrible. But I liked Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen as Frodo and Gandalf, and Sean Astin as Sam. And, looking back, I see someone picking on Dominic Monaghan's nose. But it looks totally hobbity, and that is one of my favourite bits about casting him as Merry. But all in good fun; I suppose we all have our own versions of what looks "hobbity". And yes, I was as annoyed as anyone with the expansion of Arwen's role, but besides that I think Liv did a good job. But I have never been able to critize movies, so don't take my advice (obviously you have all seen the movie, or else I would tell you to) .

04-26-2002, 01:55 PM

AAGH!! LOL! That last cast list was so stinking hilarious, I really almost fell off my chair, fortunately my head caught on the corner of my bedpost and kept me from hitting the ground. ow! *rubs head* now, where were we? oh yeah. Well the only person I had a slight problem with was "Agent Elrond", because I was a Matrix freak when that first came out, and saw it like a million times, and so Hugo Weaving is hardwired into my brain as Agent Smith. Anyway, good job KC. _Penn

Cimmerian · 04-29-2002, 07:55 AM

The cast was excellent, espcially the warrior men - Aragorn and Boromeer! Gandalf and Surman were well cast as perfect wizard/istari looking old men. Gimli was really a dwarf. The elves were dainty and arrogant, as Yolkien meant to. Orcs and Uruks were great too. Hobbits...bleah!

Celebmundoiel · 04-30-2002, 02:10 PM

I think that the cast was great ( espcially Legolas..... don't mind me) All the actors had such depth in playing they're characters. I mean like it must have been hard since there characters are not normal humans and their emotions are quite diffrent towards things. And also the time period was so long ago.

Frodo Baggins · 05-01-2002, 09:53 AM

Dom Monaghan has a hobbit nose. they are slightly wierd shaped. He was perfect as Merry, you leave him alone! I don't care what PJ sez. Elrond looked good but was too stiff, he's way more fun-loving and kind in the books. When I see Weaving I see Elrond, i did not see The Matrix. Same with McKellen. I have seen nearly all of Wood's movie's but he will always be Frodo. Wood is a hobbit, he's so little and cute! Robin Williams would have made a great Bombadil. Guys, the ring preserves physically in the age one is when they found it, even though Frodo was 50 in the book he did not look a day over 33! that;s why he looks so young. May I say that Holm made a cute, cuddly, perfect Bilbo? Hehe

05-01-2002, 10:37 AM

KC, if we have Atkinson as Elrond, can ew have Tony Robinson (Baldrick) as Sam???!!!

Child of the 7th Age · 05-01-2002, 10:46 AM

Elija Wood has beautiful eyes. Whatever image of Frodo I conjure in my mind will ever after bear those searching blue eyes. But Frodo was supposed to be 50 when he left the Shire. Even if we assume that Frodo "froze" in time when he got the ring at age 33 and that Hobbits, on average, live about 20 years longer than Man (that seems to be about the average in the family trees that are given), Wood still doesn't look old enough. (After all Bilbo would have "frozen" his age around 50 when he got the Ring, and he looked twenty times older than Frodo.) But then, I can certainly think of commercial reasons why you'd want him to look like he's in his late teens.Did no one else have problems with the casting of Galadriel? She is certainly commanding, but there is a softness and gentleness which should be present and doesn't seem to be. Perhaps, this is actually more of a problem of editing rather than casting. I am hoping when they put he gift-giving scenes back into the Director's cut, my image will be modified. sharon, the 7th age hobbit

04-21-2002, 05:56 AM	#41
Polly Sandybanks Pile O'Bones Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 12	I love the cast! I think they're all perfect. I hope the cast of the next two movies will be just as good.<P>I think it was great that most of the cast were not that well-known before, at least not to me. I think that if PJ had chosen big hollywood movie stars, or whatever, it wouldn't have been the same. I love it just the way it is.<P>I agree that Robin Williams would have been a good Tom Bombadill.. but not quite as I imagined him. Maybe if they made him a bit bigger and fatter. Hmm.. <P>Someone gave some suggestions of actors if it were to be a comedy. If that was the case, I think that Rowan Atkinson would have made a perfect Frodo.. don't you!? __________________ In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

04-21-2002, 06:34 AM	#42
KingCarlton Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dream Kingdom Posts: 119	Polly Sandybanks – Thank you for joining this thread.<BR>Woe is me…did I overlook the BEAN…oh woe indeed ! Yeah he’d be great alright but not as Frodo, but Elrond….yeah. Rowan Atkinson as Elrond in the comedic version. <BR>Oh yes, this is a fun outing and not a critique.<P>Cheers ! __________________ Know ye People, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, And the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. Hither came Carlton, the King, black haired, bronze hued, mightily thewed, sullen eyed. Sword in hand, a warrior, a destroyer, a conqueror. With gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jewelled thrones of the Earth, under his sandalled feet.

04-21-2002, 07:58 AM	#43
Nevfeniel Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mithlond Posts: 783	<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Here’s a cast of Comedians if the movie were to be made as a comedy - <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Hey! What about Jerry Seinfeld?! __________________ Consider the purr a variety of audible tranquilizer. [. . .] For a few of us, there is one more purr, a secret purr. When we combine our secret purrs, we produce the Purr of Power. And that is simply the amplified amity we feel as furred and purred beings.

04-22-2002, 04:24 AM	#44
KingCarlton Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dream Kingdom Posts: 119	I did put Seinfeld in the initial line up draft but I bumped him off for Bill Murray as Elrond, and now I think Atkinson would make a better Elrond, if you've seen his 'Blackadder' you would agree.<P>Seinfeld would make a good Eomer, wise cracking at Wormtongue and Aragorn.<P>Cheers ! __________________ Know ye People, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, And the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. Hither came Carlton, the King, black haired, bronze hued, mightily thewed, sullen eyed. Sword in hand, a warrior, a destroyer, a conqueror. With gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jewelled thrones of the Earth, under his sandalled feet.

04-25-2002, 11:25 PM	#45
Aosama, the Wandering Star Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Middle-Earth Posts: 210	I really liked this cast. I mean, it could have been just terrible. But I liked Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen as Frodo and Gandalf, and Sean Astin as Sam. And, looking back, I see someone picking on Dominic Monaghan's nose. But it looks totally hobbity, and that is one of my favourite bits about casting him as Merry. But all in good fun; I suppose we all have our own versions of what looks "hobbity". <BR>And yes, I was as annoyed as anyone with the expansion of Arwen's role, but besides that I think Liv did a good job. But I have never been able to critize movies, so don't take my advice (obviously you have all seen the movie, or else I would tell you to) .

04-26-2002, 01:55 PM	#46
pennhothwen Guest Posts: n/a	AAGH!! LOL! That last cast list was so stinking hilarious, I really almost fell off my chair, fortunately my head caught on the corner of my bedpost and kept me from hitting the ground. ow! rubs head<BR>now, where were we? oh yeah. Well the only person I had a slight problem with was "Agent Elrond", because I was a Matrix freak when that first came out, and saw it like a million times, and so Hugo Weaving is hardwired into my brain as Agent Smith. Anyway, good job KC. _Penn

04-29-2002, 07:55 AM	#47
Cimmerian Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Aquilonia Posts: 382	The cast was excellent, espcially the warrior men - Aragorn and Boromeer!<BR>Gandalf and Surman were well cast as perfect wizard/istari looking old men.<BR>Gimli was really a dwarf.<BR>The elves were dainty and arrogant, as Yolkien meant to.<BR>Orcs and Uruks were great too.<BR>Hobbits...bleah! __________________ IN STEEL I TRUST, BY CROM!

04-30-2002, 02:10 PM	#48
Celebmundoiel Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Lothlorien Posts: 32	I think that the cast was great ( espcially Legolas..... don't mind me) All the actors had such depth in playing they're characters. I mean like it must have been hard since there characters are not normal humans and their emotions are quite diffrent towards things. And also the time period was so long ago. __________________ Roaming in the night through the shadows. You cannot hear me, you cannot see me. I am as agile as a cat. As I run I am low to the ground. I climb trees in a second and run on the branches as if they were the earth’s surface. My appearance is deceitful, I can take life as well as spare. I am Celebmundoiel.

05-01-2002, 09:53 AM	#49
Frodo Baggins Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Bag-End, Under-Hill, Hobbiton-across-the Water Posts: 606	Dom Monaghan has a hobbit nose. they are slightly wierd shaped. He was perfect as Merry, you leave him alone! I don't care what PJ sez. Elrond looked good but was too stiff, he's way more fun-loving and kind in the books. When I see Weaving I see Elrond, i did not see The Matrix. Same with McKellen. I have seen nearly all of Wood's movie's but he will always be Frodo. Wood is a hobbit, he's so little and cute! Robin Williams would have made a great Bombadil. Guys, the ring preserves physically in the age one is when they found it, even though Frodo was 50 in the book he did not look a day over 33! that;s why he looks so young. May I say that Holm made a cute, cuddly, perfect Bilbo? Hehe __________________ "I'm your huckleberry....that's just my game."

05-01-2002, 10:37 AM	#50
nevtalathiel Guest Posts: n/a	KC, if we have Atkinson as Elrond, can ew have Tony Robinson (Baldrick) as Sam???!!!

05-01-2002, 10:46 AM	#51
Child of the 7th Age Spirit of the Lonely Star Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5,135	Elija Wood has beautiful eyes. Whatever image of Frodo I conjure in my mind will ever after bear those searching blue eyes. <P>But Frodo was supposed to be 50 when he left the Shire. Even if we assume that Frodo "froze" in time when he got the ring at age 33 and that Hobbits, on average, live about 20 years longer than Man (that seems to be about the average in the family trees that are given), Wood still doesn't look old enough. (After all Bilbo would have "frozen" his age around 50 when he got the Ring, and he looked twenty times older than Frodo.) But then, I can certainly think of commercial reasons why you'd want him to look like he's in his late teens.<P>Did no one else have problems with the casting of Galadriel? She is certainly commanding, but there is a softness and gentleness which should be present and doesn't seem to be. Perhaps, this is actually more of a problem of editing rather than casting. I am hoping when they put he gift-giving scenes back into the Director's cut, my image will be modified. sharon, the 7th age hobbit __________________ Multitasking women are never too busy to vote.