Movie inspired sterio-types
 

I didn't know if this should go in the movies section or here. Anyway. I've come to relize how much the movies have had an influence on how we think about the LotR characters. Examples:

Legolas: pritty boy
Aragorn: a manly man who can't stand to take a bath

For some reason I don't think people thought of Legolas or Aragorn this way before the movies. If I'm wrong please tell me. Also, put up more examples if you can think of them.

You're right! The movies did influence how we think of the characters alot differently than we used to. For another example:

Pippin: a complete moron (he's not that stupid in the book)

Sam: a hobbit with no life who's obsessed with Frodo

Faramir: AS CORRUPTED AS HIS BROTHER! (out of anything in the movies, this bothers me the most)

There's more too, but I won't post those now. A good point you brought up, Rose Cotton. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

all elves have blonde hair.
Fordo was a waekling and gay
celeborn is a boring elf with no backround

who writes trashy love novels! Sorry, I couldn't resist. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

All of the elves seem really stuck-up and have no personalities in the movies, too.

yeh they are like Galadriel the pyshco freak and also all men were evil

Celeborn: Elf with bad regrowth... Who had boring background, who writes trashy love novels... lol

Frodo: Freaky little hobbit who likes to wear jewellery rounf his neck...

Galadriel: Must be related to Professor Xavier in X-MEN bcause of her mind reading gift...

Sam: Who has a serious case of separation anxiety...

Merry&Pippin: Drunk 98% of the time..

Legolas: Spokesperson for Clairol.

Boromir is always dead, or sending subliminal messages to Frodo about the ring.

And *cough* showing his funky groove!

Yeh, Boromir, that dead one from the first movie.

Am I the only person who thinks Celeborn is the coolest guy alive?

Galadriel: freeeeaaaaky!!

Aragorn: *puts a clothespeg on her nose*

Arwen: annoyyyyyyiiiiing!!

Eowyn: grrrrr

Legolas: dye job

And of course, all hobbits are stupid little weaklings who run straight into the arms of their enemies and always yell for someone to help them instead of fighting.

Gimli is there for comic relief.

"He's short and he's fat! Ha ha ha!"

[ May 03, 2003: Message edited by: Lindril Arvilya ]

I believe that Frodo only saw the ring a few times in the book, but in the movie it's just popping up everywhere.
Elrond: well, the movies just makes you want to hate him (especially the extended version of FotR.) He seems so impatience and angry, which is unlike an elf.
Treebeard: selfish. [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]
Butterbur: cruel and mean-hearted; doesn't like hobbits.
....and so on, and so forth.
But, yes, the Faramir one did anger me too.

Whoa, time out. How did you pick THAT up from the movies?

I don't agree about the Elves- they were cold, but I liked them anyhow. Most of them, at least. Only really nasty people get the idea of him being gay, and wow! Fordo! Waekling! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Just kidding [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

~Menelien

Gimli: a fat butterball whose ego is the only thing bigger than his waist [img]smilies/eek.gif[/img]
Ents: Lazy trees who think the world should solve or destroy itself and only care about themselves

[ May 03, 2003: Message edited by: RiderOfRohan ]

hmmm ok so this might not make much sense but arwen is rathersome a...errr Tie-fondler!

Ents: Slow stupid trees that out to be made into paper...


lol... and yes, of course Brormir showing his funky groove...

I also think Celeborn is pertty cool.. But to the other people who think the elves are cold and mean.. Well they really had to decide what was going to happen with the ring.. it would be pretty stressful, think about it..

Galadriel: All powerful, queen of the world type character

Arwen: Shieldmaidens are acceptable ME characters!

Celeborn: Henpecked!

Hobbits: Brave but never any good at fighting. I mean Merry helped to kill the Lord of the Nazgul for heavens sake!

Eowyn: Designed to seem more suited to Aragorn than Arwen

Faramir: Aaargh.

When I first read the books, I thought she was too. Then she met Faramir and it was all better again. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

We are being led to believe that hobbits only fight with rocks, like common schoolyard bullies!

Bilbo - A schitzophrenic old man.

Theoden - A selfish ruler who doesn't give lembas about Rohan.

Frodo - A depressed, angsty guy who when trouble shows up, can only stare at the attacker with huge blue eyes.

Sam - A clingy hobbit with boundary issues. All I could think of.

they make elves out to be a very cold and "holier-than-thou" complex, while in the books they were very lighthearted and nice.

and is it just me, or do you only see like 4 dwarves in the entire movie? It makes it look like dwarves are greedy and only interested in gold and diamonds, and they're only in it because otherwise they'd lose all of their gold.

then it makes hobbits look like wimps witout any backbone, and that they only care about themselves and their shire.

Elrond: THAT'S AGENT ELROND TO YOU, BUSTER!!!(it gets the point across)

Frodo: Moron

Merry: slug who's always eating something and takes up the parts that in my opinion would be better for Pippin!

Pippin: Adorable. Need I say more?

Gandalf: Old&Senile

Arwen: Simmilar to peach or Zelda; just waits and gets rescued, has NO personality!

Gimli: Another moron, less of one than Frodo (Ever notice how one of his eyes is usually wide open while the other one is half-closed?)

Sam: a FRIEND. He was Frodo's GARDENER, not his FRIEND! Plus in the scenes with him&Frodo I kept on being suspicious of some type of plot to somehow include annoying morals such as friends will always be there for you, the world is a happy place with sunshine&butterflies...yah

Sauron: I dunno what he was like, he just got messed up in my mind! HE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE AN EYE *sobs*! That takes the fun out of it!

Boromir: In the book he somehow reminded me of Faramir, tho he's not mentioned in the FOTR. In the movie I got a whole different view of him and I have a respect for his courage and strength (hey, it's hard not to admire anti-heroes!)

Needless to say, lotsa the main characters were- put bluntly- morons. But one thing that outraged me UTTERLY was how they cut out Tom Bombadil and Goldberry! HOW COULD THEY?!?!

Legolas - Surf dude (Cowabunga! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img])
Aragorn - Indiana Jones, Hans Solo type
Frodo - ow! that hurts (and then he dies)
Sam - Sidekick, regular sidekick
Eowyn - Stereotipical Tom Boy, wants to play baseball instead of dolls (or in this case swordfight)
Merry, Pippin, and Gimli - Comic Relief (hahahaha as they make one stupid joke after another)

That is all I got for now [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Arwen: missunderstood.... can acctually kill and ride a horse. Just a tad on the love sick side... With a bit of the eyes-for-eachother infection she caught from Aragorn... C'mon girl! grow a backbone!... ok that was harsh, but arwen needs to realise, the whole world does not revolve around aragorn... well, yeah now i think about it... acctually it does.. ill shut my mouth now and hide in a corner somewhere.

*launches herself at Gorwingel and claws his eyes out*
MERRY AND PIPPIN ARE NOT JUST COMIC RELIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img] [img]smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Just to get back on subject (at least seriously) a teensy bit, here's my two cents. I know that the movies caused people to see the characters differently. My knew way of seeing people:

Boromir: in the books, this guy really annoyed me... I mean, he seemed kind of a stuffed-shirt who only cared about himself and his city, plus the fact that he attacked Frodo and then had to go get himself killed, but after the movies, I really like him. I saw the FOTR for the first time and then I really thought about him and realized that he's just a guy trying to do what he thinks is right, but is under a lot of stress, etc...

Faramir: at first, just like everyone else, I was really ticked about the "I'm a jerk, gimme the ring" bit, but then my brother showed me this article he found and now I agree. It was going on about how even in the books, Faramir played good-cop/bad-cop and how he was really just using proven techniques to get Frodo to tell him everything. That is until he went all noble and let him go. But I still see him as a bit of a jerk now.

Arwen: I always liked her until her Arwen-warrior-princess role in FOTR. Now she just annoys me. And then after her exerting ride against the Nine, she just goes home and spends her time sewing and crying to Daddy Elrond about how she wants to see her man. Yeesh.

All Hobbits: I saw them as more their own species and not just shrunken humans with pointy ears and hair feet. The movies just didn't do it for me.

There's more, but this is good for now. Cheers,

Fea

Like I said, the girl should grow a backbone...

*seeing as though it's never gonna happen, Meela drugs Arwen and inserts a backbone into her back*

Thank you, Meela! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

It was a pleasure drugging Arwen [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Can I have a turn drugging her?!? [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Personaly I think it's mostly just us BDers that have painted that strange picture [img]smilies/redface.gif[/img] [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] !

I had something else to say, but I went brain-dead. I'll edit this when I remember what it was.

*Hands over Arwen and some drugs*

Have fun! [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]

yay! its an Arwen drug fest! lalala

[img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] *cough*back on topic not that I don't want to drug Arwen but...

Arwen: Stuck-up, headstrong, idiotic, always needs to be in the picture.

Aragorn: Never take a bath or be hygenic, hydrophobic, really (people are going to hate me) shy, hiding under a rock.

Boromir: Easily obsessed by jewelry.

Frodo: weak, giving-the-ring-to-the-next-person-he meets.

Sam: Obsessive, doesn't believe in evil.

Pippin: Biggest idiot in the world

Merry: Pippin clone with a bit more intelligence.

I'll stop now.