[Mithalwen]

I think the trouble with Legolas is that he isn't given a lot of dialogue in the books and a lot of the more profound stuff was discarded becasue it didn't "move the story along" (including just about my favourite lines from the whole book "I count you blessed Gimli son of Gloin")..... so while he gets plenty of fancy stunts his dialogue is limited to stating the obvious giving the illusionm of being "Prince Legolas the Perpetually Confused". In FOTR he seems so surprised by anything he encounters "Orcs!" , "Goblins!" "Crebain!" that I expecteted him to enter Lorien and exclaim "trees!" in complete bewilderment. Then in TTT old eagle eyes either fails to notice or doesn't bother to mention the hoardes of Warg-riders approaching... reducing him to resident pretty boy and "Laurel" to gimli's "Hardy".

I would add that I was very impressed by Karl Urban on looking at the EE ....he was probably the least known and experience of any in a major role and he more than held his own... I was nearly crying when he found Eowyn.....