Ah, you enlighten me. But you call that Elf in your icon sad and calm? My brother, after seeing the films (not having read the book) called him, "that blond killing machine."
Just teasing. Book Legolas was full of wistful sadness. Although Orlando managed to inject that sense, here and there, very well, in spite of the skateboarding down the steps, etc.
I suppose the stories I am thinking of in the Sil (and stories from the Second Age in Unfinished Tales) actually do "star" Men, but the Elves are important featured players: dark and complex, with hearts that can be as flinty and greedy and murky as any human's. Yet some are very compassionate -- and passionate -- just like their human counterparts. What neither sorts of Elves are like is the chilly, removed sort that the generic Elves seemed to be in the films.
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Date: 2006-05-08 04:09 pm (UTC)Just teasing. Book Legolas was full of wistful sadness. Although Orlando managed to inject that sense, here and there, very well, in spite of the skateboarding down the steps, etc.
I suppose the stories I am thinking of in the Sil (and stories from the Second Age in Unfinished Tales) actually do "star" Men, but the Elves are important featured players: dark and complex, with hearts that can be as flinty and greedy and murky as any human's. Yet some are very compassionate -- and passionate -- just like their human counterparts. What neither sorts of Elves are like is the chilly, removed sort that the generic Elves seemed to be in the films.