Ronon's hair is 'bizarre'? *raise eyebrows* I didn't see any "bizarre" or "scary" comments being tossed around about Jack Sparrow's dreadlocks in PotC fandom. Is this the same people who make him and Teyla cats instead of writing me the long, plotty, h/c-filled Ronon/Teyla fic I can never find?
Add to that the part where the movies made a lot of elves pale and blonde that weren't blonde in the books (like Legolas) and the whole visual metaphor that they have going on there gets kinda really sketchy.
I know *nods* Since elves are supposed to be a more enlightened species than humans, it probably says something that the only dark-haired elves are Elrond Half-elven and his daughter. Mostly it says that they wanted to cast Liv Tyler, I think, but you still get all the pure-blooded elves being blond while the half-human ones are darker. Legolas in particular I'd give a pass on because he's frequently been portrayed as blond ever since Greg & Tim Hildebrant got his hair color wrong in a 70s-era Tolkien calendar, but there are many, many spear-carrier elves in the films and like I said, they're *all* blond except for Arwen & Elrond. And then you have Grima Wormtongue as the only dark-haired Rohirrim (I mean, it makes perfect sense that they're all blond, since they're basically vikings with horses instead of longboats, but there's one dark-haired one and he's the evil guy?).
Personally, I was a little disappointed in the Gondor characters, too, because while I thought that Viggo Mortenson made a perfect Aragorn, and while I love Sean Bean to bits in, like, everything he's ever been in, I always imagined Gondor as a sort of Rome or Byzantium equivalent, with Minas Tirith as Alexandria and Rome and Constantinople and Troy all rolled into one, yet the men of Gondor were more Northern Europeans and not the dark-haired, dark-eyed people I'd been picturing.
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Add to that the part where the movies made a lot of elves pale and blonde that weren't blonde in the books (like Legolas) and the whole visual metaphor that they have going on there gets kinda really sketchy.
I know *nods* Since elves are supposed to be a more enlightened species than humans, it probably says something that the only dark-haired elves are Elrond Half-elven and his daughter. Mostly it says that they wanted to cast Liv Tyler, I think, but you still get all the pure-blooded elves being blond while the half-human ones are darker. Legolas in particular I'd give a pass on because he's frequently been portrayed as blond ever since Greg & Tim Hildebrant got his hair color wrong in a 70s-era Tolkien calendar, but there are many, many spear-carrier elves in the films and like I said, they're *all* blond except for Arwen & Elrond. And then you have Grima Wormtongue as the only dark-haired Rohirrim (I mean, it makes perfect sense that they're all blond, since they're basically vikings with horses instead of longboats, but there's one dark-haired one and he's the evil guy?).
Personally, I was a little disappointed in the Gondor characters, too, because while I thought that Viggo Mortenson made a perfect Aragorn, and while I love Sean Bean to bits in, like, everything he's ever been in, I always imagined Gondor as a sort of Rome or Byzantium equivalent, with Minas Tirith as Alexandria and Rome and Constantinople and Troy all rolled into one, yet the men of Gondor were more Northern Europeans and not the dark-haired, dark-eyed people I'd been picturing.