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Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett

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1999. Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Hugo Weaving at the premiere of The Matrix is a  science fiction action film

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Face card is insane

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Elrond's white robe & coat in 4k

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People are always hating on Hugo Weaving's Elrond for not being atractive enough or looking too old for an elf but

He pulled off playing a younger, dashing, more physically active version of his character really well in the Hobbit while he was actually like 20 years older LMAO

People can hate on my man Hugo but he was the only one who genuinely looked younger and more handsome somehow, all the others looked visibly older, even Cate who is so beautiful and aged extremely will did look older than in LOTR but he didn't. I need some respect for him

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Yo he’s so lean here, pretty sure this was for Captain America

let me have this senior citizen

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vampire elrond

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Let's take Ibuprofen together!

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1/3 of the Fellowship

The Dwarfs are very clearly inspired mainly from Old Norse, so that's the main reference for Gimli's dress. There's also some other influences, like some Bronze Age Mediterranean influences and Iron Age Eastern Europe.

To me Tolkien's elves are very high Middle Ages and Gothic, but for Sindar I mixed in plenty of Celtic and especially Irish influence, and based Legolas' dress heavily on Irish léine.

Boromir's dress I based on mostly Byzantine but also some Medieval Arabic influences as I did for Faramir.

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do you take art requests? if you do, could you draw a cuddly sketch of Thranduil and young Legolas? :)

Bb boi

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Lee Pace as King Thranduil THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (2012) dir. Peter Jackson

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Thranduil: Do not speak to me of dragon fire!

Thorin: Do not speak to me of loss!

Bilbo: *scribbling down on a note pad of what not to speak of around these two drama kings*

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You, who opened suns in my heart.

- Alfonsina Storni

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by ユエ

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You know, the Fellowship had to have been full of different accents.

In fact, everyone who spoke Westron likely had a slightly accented version of it, varying according to whichever language was their primary one. And honestly, that's so cute and sexy.

Frodo probably spoke Westron with the more refined version of the Shire's accent. Maybe Sam had a more rural accent (it's pretty clear from the way Jrrt wrote the dialogue that Sam had more of a rustic dialect). Maybe Merry had an accent that was even slightly different still. Then throw in Gimli. Sam said the dwarvish language "must be a real jaw cracker" so assuming the language was significantly different, the accent would have been too. I'm divided on whether Aragorn's accent would have been more influenced by his elvish background or the Numenorean languages. And the region of Gondor probably gave Boromir his own variation of an accent as well. And who knows what kind of mashed-up accent Gandalf had, seeing how he's been like everywhere.

And that doesn't even get to the Elves. Legolas speaks Sindarin, but how many different regional versions of Sindarin are there? (Kinda like how many people in the US speak English, but there are some regional accents so thick I couldn't tell what they're saying.) So maybe Thranduil had a different accent from Elrond, who had a different accent from Galadriel. And some of that may have been affected by whether (or how much) they spoke Quenya as well.

For someone like Elrond, who's probably well-versed in a high number of languages, I wonder what kind of accent that would have produced? I'm sure he was very skilled in whatever languages he spoke, but I still imagine that when speaking Westron, he had just a touch of a slight accent, a barely there Elvish lilt, soft, refined, and ever so dreamy. 😍

Then moving on, the people of Rohan would have had their own accent, and so on and so forth. I can't get over how captivating that would be! Unlike in the films, where there are maybe approximately three different accents, Middle Earth would have been full of accents!

Which makes me think about communication barriers even if all parties are speaking Westron. Maybe the real reason "Legolas never says anything to Frodo" is actually that Frodo couldn't understand half of what he did say, so there was little to record. 🤣

And that still doesn't even really touch on dialects! You can have two people who speak the exact same language and even understand each other's accents, but one person stands in line and the other person stands in the queue. 😄 (Or one person doesn't know what "taters" are . . .)

Idk, this just leaves so much for the imagination, and I love it.

"What did he say, Sam?"

"I don't rightly know, Mr. Frodo. I'm still working that one out."

Or one day Éowyn asks Faramir to bring her an item, and he brings the wrong thing, and after some confusion she laughs at him, because the term she used meant another thing to him, and after all, how was he supposed to know any better?