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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
if you think Legolas is hit hard, think about poor Elrond whose nobility and sacrifice is transformed in to a petulant MD and slightly creepy Dad... or Faramir.....
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Actually, I didn't mind either of those cases nearly so much.
With Elrond I suppose it's because I was never as interested in him as I was in Legolas (until I read the Silmarillion and decided I was Maglor reincarnated, anyway...), as lots of my Elrondite friends felt his altering keenly.
But with Faramir, aside from the slightly ridiculous plot-holes caused by the Nazgul sequence, I had few problems, because I felt Wenham was a good actor who was deling with a character inside the appropriate culture. Indeed, in TTT EE and ROTK I could find no faults with him, and enjoyed every second he was on screen. Oh for more Houses of Healing scenes with the goddess Miranda...
Legolas felt...rather jarringly modern in more ways than skating, and reading interviews with Orlie didn't help. It's a problem he has in
Kingdom of Heaven too. He couldn't be less "mediaeval"...