[Roccotari Eldandil]

I hope they don't overcheesify Legolas' stunts. However, I quite enjoyed the shieldboarding thing (snowboarding Elf! he he he!). Remember, Tolkien doesn't say every detail about how someone got where. PJ took a bit of poetic license, which I think is okay--<I>here</I>. Faramir, for example, ruined the movie for me. <BR>I do love Saucepan's idea though. Not to be put in the movie, of course; just as a funny parody thing. My idea from that quote would be that he slides down stairs on his shield, shoots over a parapet onto a cave troll that's pushing a siege tower, and kills it.<BR>But that ship thing sounds wonderful too...Legolas swinging off of mast, red sun in background, comes down fighting with knives out. <BR>To everybody who said he was in the movie just to kill stuff...that's his purpose in the book, too! He's just a sniper (mind you, that's important, but still). Though in the book he does have more depth--mostly expressed through his songs. I wonder if Orlando can sing? (snorts as she imagines him singing "To the Sea!")<BR>But I do think that Orlando's a good actor, and he could have handled a better developed part, if he had been given it.<P>p.s. Bernard Hill's little tap dancing thing was quite frightening for me too.