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[ SECRET POST #4029 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4029 ⌋

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02. https://i.imgur.com/ccr6M8Y.png

So beautiful and ageless = blond guys with long hair?

Seems like the treatment to me. The visual blur hides their age lines and the blond hair blends into their skin more to hide hairlines.

I don't think they have to be blond, but the top photo is a good example of how you can be tall with high cheekbones and still not that great looking. Actually the dark haired elf to the right of Arwen is probably the best looking one there.

Yeah. They look like human movie extras with ears glued on, which is what they are, but elves are supposed to have that mystical magical blurry beauty thing. The people in the bottom pic aren't that great looking either in comparison, but they look unreal and airbrushed, which is more of a correct kind of look than glued on ears.

So really, we should thank 10 years of cinematic technological advancement rather than any improvement in extra casting.

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(Anonymous) - 2018-01-14 22:59 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2018-01-14 23:07 (UTC) - Expand

Yes. Because Liv Tyler is very blond and very male.

I wouldn't include Arwen as an example of good casting personally, but IA other than that.

Agreed.

Lee Pace was a surprisingly perfect choice, imo.

I can agree with this, though with the exception of Tauriel, who was very plain looking, imo. I never understood the casting of creepy Agent Smith as an elf.

Yes! This! I'll never forgive them for Elrond, smh.

I didn't think Arwen or Galadriel were cast well either. Pretty much only Lee Pace was elf-like to me but I hated what they did to Thranduil's character.

Pace was perfect until he opened his damn mouth. Does TVTropes still have that "Ooh, me accent's slipping!" page? Because Thranduil deserves top billing. Yeesh.

/late

Arwen & Co. look like they're judging you for wearing that skirt with those heels, and the background guys in the second picture just look kinda stoned.

*snickers madly*

Point, though really I've never bought into that whole idea that an entire race of people were, to the last, flawlessly beautiful. I think the famed grace of the Eldar was just... comparative, as in comparative to the other races living in grimy, war-ridden Middle Earth. Many of the the more notable elven characters in the stories were famed for their beauty, so that might have contributed to the overall impression.

Long long long history of mythology of fairy folk being beautiful and bewitching mortal men. Clearly the inspiration for Tolkein's elves.

But - *are* they actually more beautiful than mere mortals, or is it all a glamour?

Maybe she's born with it... maybe it's Maybelline. ;)

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tabaqui - 2018-01-15 00:16 (UTC) - Expand

The question that launched a thousand fairy stories. ;)

I disagree, because I think those things - unearthly beauty and grace and aesthetic perfection - are strongly associated with the basic concept of the elves, and what they're doing in the stories, and what they represent.

Personally, I think those ideas are better represented in-story by the philosophies and achievements of elven culture. Their ethereal cities, their transcendent music and writing, their famed and unique crafts, etc. And of course, their fate, undying but utterly tied to the world that is doomed to fade. I love all of that but I don't love the idea that they were all of them physically superior beyond what genetics, hygiene, immortality, and immunity to disease could grant. But yeah, it's a personal thing.

Fair enough

The cast in the bottom photo just look over-CGIed to me.

The cast in the top photo look like the inhabitants of the random planet of the week on ST:TNG. I’m sure they have super-advanced medicine and are secretly xenophobic fascists.

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