Worst portrayal? Best?

[Lalaith]

Best acting: Ian McKellen, without a doubt.<BR>And Gollum. <BR>Worst: this is going to get me flamed, no doubt. but I think Elijah Wood's acting is more than a little hammy. <BR>Worst bit of acting: when Sam and Frodo are discussing, lightheartedly, their exploits being turned to song. Frodo says "What about Sam, dad, Frodo would never have made it without him" and Sam says "oh come on Mr Frodo I was being serious." But as Elijah says the line not in the jokey mode he was meant to, but in his usual Earnest and Meaningful way, Sam's line is superfluous, we are never in doubt that Frodo was serious. <BR>Hugo Weaving's Elrond is also a bit hammy with all his Arrrrrrrrrwens. And while Orlando Bloom's acting is usually very good, some of his lines are delivered rather in the mode of the End of Term Play at Eton. Eg: "The Uruks turn Northeast. They are taking the hobbits to Isengard."