[ SECRET POST #3395 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3395 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it's related or not, but when I read the books (a few years after seeing the movies) one of the things I was most surprised at was how much more fun Legolas was in the books than in the movies. In the books he's this cloudcuckoolander who squees about everything and is always annoyingly (in a good way) cheerful. In the movies he's too perfect and kind of dull except when he's interacting with Gimli or when Orlando Bloom is trying to make him more interesting by giving him weird background facial expressions. And of course, Gimli is like a fuckton more nuanced and competent in the books than in the movies, and is like...actually one of the most eloquent and quick-witted motherfuckers in the book, while Legolas is so silly and has the weirdest ideas of how to say things and what to say to people even if his phrasing sounds very elegant.

It kind of reminds me of the travesty the Harry Potter movies made out of the characters of Ron and Hermione (although I still absolutely adore 90% of the LOTR movies, and still prefer some things about them to the books.)

[philstar22]

This so much about Legolas and Gimli. They are both so much better in the books and so different. Legolas is more of the funny one and Gimli is more nuanced and badass.

Although, interestingly, Legolas is not nearly as complex as many of Tolkien's elves, mostly because he was a replacement character who was created because Tolkien needed an elf for the Fellowship who wasn't Glorfindel. The role was originally going to be played by Glorfindel, but Tolkien decided he was too powerful and would take away from Aragorn. So Legolas was a later edition and I think there are some places where it shows. This is also the reason he's never mentioned in the Hobbit. He didn't exist at that point.

But still, both of them are much more awesome in the book. I do love the movies, but they definitely missed some things with Legolas and Gimli.

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ayrt

That makes sense! Yeah Legolas's motivations and background were never really very well developed in the book compared to the other characters, which is a pity, but hey at least it gives more room for fans to speculate! ;)

[type_wild]

I read the books first, and was correspondingly disappointed at how Legolas was portrayed as Aragorn's Super Serious BFF instead of Gimli's inapropriately cheerful rawr-fated-rival-turned-BFF.