I'm not a major books autist, but these films have terrible casting. Viggo as Aragorn is dumb. Agent Smith is Agent Smith. Liv Tyler as Arwen is almost insulting. Faramir is ok, but he would've been a lot better if he'd swapped places with Sean Bean. On that note, Sean Bean should've been Aragorn. Haldir is awful (Craig Parker has stubble ffs, these are supposed to be elves). Cate Blanchett as Galadriel is bad. Miranda Otto as Eowyn isn't played poorly but is physically jarring. This is less poor casting per se but John Noble's Denethor is baffling in the film, it has nothing in common whatsoever with the character. I don't know if this was the actor or Jackson's influence nor am I sure what the intention was.
I was tempted to put Bernard Hill in here but with Theoden as with Denethor it's hard to separate the casting issues from Jackson's writing.
I'm not touching things like Frodo's age because it's somewhat understandable and not strictly a case of poor casting. But so much of this sticks out badly with time.
>Viggo as Aragorn is dumb You might as well have stopped writing here. Viggo embodied Aragorn so well that Jackson would accidentally call him Aragorn off-set.
Cameron Morris
Viggo broke his toes when kicking an Uruk-hai helmet when he thought Merry and Pippin were dead, and he stayed in character the entire time and they went with that shot.
Lucas Brown
Bloom isn't at all how I imagined Legolas and in general I don't think the elves were elfy enough but none of these other ones are that bad. Viggo was a great Aragorn.
Dominic Gutierrez
oof
Nolan Fisher
big and redpilled if true
Anthony Allen
your iq is showing
Thomas Russell
Weren't there some hobbit riots in a hobbit village at the end of the books? Why was this ommitted in the movies?
Brayden Phillips
>hobbit riots Saruman and Wormtongue take over the Shire and the returning hobbits have to use what they learned on their adventure to take it back. It was left out because even though it's a neat side plot it's entirely unnecessary and that movies are already almost too long.
Matthew Clark
Viggo doesn't work because Aragorn is not supposed to be this shifty, faintly pretty character plagued with self-doubt, the problem is that these are exactly the types of characters he'd played before LotR, in fact almost every film role he had was either as a villain or a psychopath. Physically he isn't the worst fit per se, though he is too short (Strider was supposed to be a towering 7 foot tall colossus).
Aiden Wright
thanks
Joshua Barnes
viggo as aragorn comes off as none of those things. if anything he's too nice to be book aragorn
>dude he got typecast as x before that means casting him as is wrong nope. if anything it makes the cast more brilliant because it turned out correct
have much more relevant criticism directed at both the books and the films. After all, ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
Hudson Thomas
Viggo deflected a knife that was accidently thrown at him by Lurtz the Uruk-Hai.
All jokes aside, having Arya defeat the Night King was actually a genius piece of social commentary. It showcased that old white patriarchs, no matter how scary they pretend to be, simply cannot compete with the crafty and determined women of today.
Tolkien did this so much better. Eowyn was maybe the original strong woman character, but it wasn't forced it was reasonable. One could understand her character, she had a story and yes helped kill one of the strongest characters in middle-earth (though it was mainly due to Merry and his dagger from the Barrow-downs), though Merry being on the battlefield is thanks to her.
Caleb Richardson
Casting in the Lord of the Rings is the best it could've been. I'm pretty sure it surpassed everyone's expectations.
Chase Powell
barrow downs don't exist in the movie version. you're comparing apples to oranges. I don't think grrm will end the night king with arya killing him either, though if he does it will be one of the plot points he fed without any details, and when he actually writes it in the books it will look far better
