[VanimaEdhel]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Ohhh, I am far too tall. Orlando is taller, however. He is no gymnast himself. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>He's only an inch taller than I am. While the character of Legolas is supposedly about 6'2" in the movie, Orlando Bloom is 5'11". The fact that I know that, on the other hand, is going to make me stare into the mirror telling myself that I am a freak for a good time...<P>Being that I fell in love with the character of Legolas six and a half years ago, when I was nine and first read the books, I was somewhat disappointed with Legolas in the first movie. All he seemed to do was run around yelling, "Crebain from Dunland", "Orcs!" and "Goblins!" and other ridiculously obvious things. I found myself yelling back, after a time, "No kidding!" and walking away thoroughly depressed that only in the Extended Edition did they mention that Legolas was son of Thranduil, and even then they did not say that he was Prince of Mirkwood. I, however, also walked away with a big crush on Orlando Bloom, thinking that he handled quite a small part, but with great importance, pretty well, considering this was his second movie ever (he had done theater, but the only other movie he was in was "Wilde").<P>On the other hand, with this movie, they developed his character far beyond what they had done in the first movie. I found myself respecting Orlando Bloom as an actor, more than as a cute face playing an amazing species (no matter how real The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and LT 1 and 2 make the Elves, they are still divine in my eyes). While he did not get his tongue around the Elvish quite as well as Liv Tyler seemed to, he did, in my eyes (now I am, in no regards, a language scholar), a good job with the words. And you also got to see the more playful Legolas that I envisioned via the books' description of him (and his relationship with Gimli, which they only even briefly touched on in the Extended Version DVD).<P>So, in conclusion: I am definitely going out to see "The Kelly Gang" (with *gags* Heath Ledger), "Pirates of the Caribbean" (with *sigh* Johnny Depp), "The Calcium Kid" (assuming that it comes here, to NY...it's a British indie, so I don't know), and "Troy" (with Brad Pitt, who actually is a pretty good actor, I'm realizing, and he gets more attractive as he gets older...he still doesn't look 38 to me)...and of course "RotK", but that's somewhat of a given. I hope that I will walk away from those movies with the same respect for him as an actor as I did after The Two Towers (he's still good-looking too...two good qualities in one actor: usually rare).<P>EDIT:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> And I also like when he starts yelling in elvish about how all the Rohirrim were going to die. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Showed how the stress and fear was getting to all of them...<P>And I found it funny that Legolas, the completely sanitary-looking Elf that, even after going through a battle, only had a little smudge of mud on his forehead, finally commented on the fact that Aragorn looked terrible. Aragorn always looks dirty though...<p>[ December 23, 2002: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]