Silvermoth
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Nice, Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Highly underrated
Any word or anyone know if they are needing extras I would love to say I had a small part in this.
Same here! I want to be an elf extra, filling a life-long ambition of being fit with my very own pair of prosthetic pointy ear tips.
Ha, that would be pretty fun. I would love a peter Jackson in fellowship of the ring style cameo (turn around, burp at the camera)
He cameoed in ROTK too, didn’t he? As one of the soldiers on the ship? Did he have a cameo in Two Towers as well?
He was a soldier at Helm’s Deep in TT, I believe
I wonder if he’ll cameo in the tv series?
(Looks up JRD’s recent filmography and wonders why he feels this project is beneath him)
(Looks up JRD’s political views and realizes he’s a racist A-hole, so suddenly his poor career choices make more sense)
Same here! I want to be an elf extra, filling a life-long ambition of being fit with my very own pair of prosthetic pointy ear tips.
I don't think Elves really had pointy ears. I think he who must not be named made that up. You'd be fine being your usual, charming self....and with your own ears. Let me guess...An Elf of the Noldor with a little bit of the Vanyar thrown in. Am I close? If you could generate a little inner light, that might be helpful though.
Are you STILL going on about seeing Cate in a play (from the 1st row no less.....)?
Hope all is well.
Lindir
Well, Tolkien did say the Elves had “leaf-shaped ears”. Make of that what you will, but I assume that means pointy....unless, perhaps, he intended them to have maple-leaf shaped ears.
That's true. I don't recall reading that before...and I think we can safely assume that maple or palm leaves are out. LOL.
It’s in the appendices to The Lost Road & Other Writings.
Yeah, his outright refusal was pretty harsh, insinuating that LOTR should never be remade and that Tolkien would be rolling in his grave. Andy just didn’t want to be pigeonholed.
Me too...unfortunately, I don’t live in Scotland.
I don't think Elves really had pointy ears. I think he who must not be named made that up. You'd be fine being your usual, charming self....and with your own ears. Let me guess...An Elf of the Noldor with Vanyar thrown in. Am I close? If you could generate a little inner light, that might be helpful though.
Are you STILL going on about seeing Cate in a play (from the 1st row no less.....)?
Hope all is well.
Lindir
Neither do I, but being in England I guess I'm close enough. Definitely closer than New Zealand.
I'm also going by the same Tolkien quote about elves having 'leaf-shaped' ears as @THORin. And Jackson was hardly the first person to portray Tolkien's elves as having pointy ears, I recall the wood elves in the 1977 Rankin-Bass animation of The Hobbit also had pointy ears. But they were also green and the High-Elves had beards for some reason so whatever, what did they know. I do think the movie/TV elves having pointy ears is a useful visual distinction from humans, especially for female elves who otherwise wouldn't look much different from beautiful female humans.
Of course I would be a part-Noldor, part-Vanyar elf extra, only the best for me my friend!
And I will NEVER stop going on about sitting a few feet away from Queen Cate Blanchett, are you mad? Being in the presence of true elven royalty is the best thing that ever happened to me.
Yeah. He didn't complain about any of the drawings when he was alive that I recall; though I'm not sure that says much because some of the drawings were clearly wrong and I don't recall reading any comments regarding the drawings of others. In fact, now that I think about it, the only picture I can think where Tolkien drew people was Beleg finding Gwindor in Taur-nu-Fuin, but the figures, from memory, are teeny tiny. I think you two are correct about the ears being shaped somewhat differently.... Unless he was talking about rounder leaves....Hey, maybe the point was facing down....LOL.
And no more whacking me or I'll have to report you to the mods.
Hope all is well.
He did draw Bilbo in the end illustration for the Hobbit, and I think - I might be wrong - but I think his ears are ever so slightly pointed too. Not that that says anything about Elven ears, but I was just trying to think of other times Tolkien drew people. Am I forgetting any others?
I have a whole bunch of his drawings and don't remember the one you're mentioning.
By golly gee.....you are right! I looked it up and never saw that one before. You're just a treasure trove of wisdom these days. It does look like his ears are pointed. It's a picture from 1937 from what I'm seeing. Around the same time as his writing about it???
Cool. Thanks.