[VanimaEdhel]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Please forgive a close-minded mule of a pescimist, but this in no alternate universe will ever be able to measure up to middle-earth <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I agree with you completely. The fact that all the people, including Elves, look as though they just walked out of a Hollywood beauty salon does not say much about the hairstyles. The Elves are not fair enough either. They look like regular humans (and they do not have pointy ears the director pointed out). Even in The Sil, which paints a more down-to-earth picture of the Elves, saying they were warlike and all, also painted a picture of the Elves as beautiful as well. In LTI and II, Tolkien does portray Elves as more normal and even as a bit fat sometimes, but that was in the beginning of the evolution of the concept of "Elves". Elves were originally to be small too, but they were made tall and beautiful later, at the time of the publishing of Lord of the Rings and the writing of The Silmarillion.<p>[ June 04, 2003: Message edited by: VanimaEdhel ]