• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yes, elves in the books are a lot more… human.

    They feast, they sing, they dance, they do stupid things, they prank each other. If anything they seem the most playful race.

    Shit, in The Hobbit, a soldier on duty gets so drunk that he passes out, allowing Bilbo and the Dwarves are able to escape in barrels.

    PJ very much took the Elves and said “let’s make them into Star Trek Vulcans!”

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      3 months ago

      I’d say Tolkien is a bit inconsistent in how he portrays elves. In The Hobbit, they are more like frolicking, dancing and singing pixies and in LotR they are more ethereal and aloof like fey.

      Jackson chose to stick to the fey aspect.

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        3 months ago

        Aren’t the elves from The Hobbit also a different group? It could just be that they are frolicking weirdos compared to Elrond’s and Galadriel’s elves.

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          3 months ago

          The playful, drunk elves of the Hobbit were wood elves; the stuffy ones were high elves

          I think PJ made them a bit too up themselves

          (Too stuck up, too snooty, too like the ideal British noble)