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10. http://i.imgur.com/ScQCfDa.jpg

:(((((((((

Forget watching, I tear up just looking at that screencap. Though I don't think a screencap really properly captures the heartbreaking little arc of expressions his face goes through between whispering to her and watching her walk away.

I really hate what they did to Elrond in the movies and that Hugo Weaving was cast as him, but this is one moment he did a good job portraying what Elrond must've been feeling.

I'm primarily a fan of the books and read the books long before the movies, definitely love the books more, but tbh I thought movie Elrond was more interesting and...how do I say...more tangible, had a more distinct shape, I guess? than book Elrond, at least given how the story had to be adapted to the screen (a movie cannot involve a narrated appendix entry after the fact.) I liked Elrond a lot in the book but if they had been totally faithful to the book while adapting him to the screen he would have been boring and forgettable as shit and I think the movie version was wonderfully memorable and distinctive even if it wasn't totally faithful. Faithfulness is a really overrated and fairly useless quality all by itself.

Who said anything about being faithful to the book? Because I didn't. I don't need faithfulness, so your holier-than-thou lecture is misplaced. There's no such thing as one way to adapt a book into a movie. What they made isn't inherently the only way to do it or even the best way to do it. Elrond in the films was shitty and uninteresting.

Elrond in the films was shitty and uninteresting.

Okay, for you, but obviously not to the AYRT (or to me for that matter; I also enjoyed Weaving. For me he had gravitas.)

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that didn't read at all like a holier-than-thou lecture, wtf

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(Anonymous) - 2016-04-15 05:34 (UTC) - Expand

I'm sorry, I'm cracking up because I remember those edits that make it look like Aragorn is marrying Legolas...

I loved their relationship so much :( I'm a sucker for father-daughter relationships in general, but I usually don't see this type of relationship applied to these kinds of characters.

Yes. Honestly, Tolkien parent/child (and sibling) relationships in general interest me a lot, but this is definitely a favorite.

The entire ending of that moment from the second the Ring falls into the fire always makes me cry. Every single time. Even if I'm watching the movie in broken-up movies-on-tv format. Even if I missed the entire movie on tv and just catch the ending.

Those locks of his hair are really annoying me. /nothing else to add.

They're better than the style he had in the first take.

They look like humans.

And...? They're supposed to look like humans?

Some people don't like that they look so human in the movies and think they should be more ethereal. I just think they had to be acted by humans so they were never going to be ethereal enough for some.

I always feel so sorry for Elrond. His family life pretty much sucks from beginning to end and most of it wasn't even stuff he could get mad about.

Yes to this.

This is such a great moment. These movies had so many great moments. Honestly, while I love the books a lot more than the movies, IMO the movies outdid the books in the "great moments" area, where ideas and dynamics are crystallized into singular little actions.

I agree with this. She's just so happy. And he's happy for her but at the same time sad he's losing his daughter (and after already losing so many people in his life). He wants her to be happy even knowing what it means.

I loved all their scenes, but this one was so wonderful and concise. Arwen was so incredibly happy and Elrond was so utterly miserable but supporting her choice and trying to be happy for her anyway, and it only took about five seconds to convey. Especially the bit where she walks forward and he just stares after her looking like he wishes time would stand still and give him just one more moment with her as she moves further and further away from him with every step.

I hope some actual good stuff happened to Elrond for a change between this and sailing west.

IDK, I think his sons stayed with him until he left? I can't remember exactly what all the minor characters did afterwards, if Tolkien said anything about them.

But maybe he also had some lulz, at least according to some people: http://jesuisbetejesuispatissiere.tumblr.com/post/106232873242

Nothing is said in canon about what eventually happened to Elrond's sons, or even to Celeborn, who unlike the movie, did not sail at the same time as Galadriel. It's up to fan opinion what they would end up doing.

Also the bit in one of the earlier movies where she tells him he still has her love and starts crying!