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Lurker in the Mirk
Doriath
Oct 24 2014, 2:51pm
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I can imagine the bottom half of this fan art being a memory accompaniment to the scene, quite in contradiction to the top half, which is the impression we've been getting.
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Lurker in the Mirk
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Oct 24 2014, 2:55pm
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Happy Weekend!
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VValar
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Oct 24 2014, 9:27pm
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Aaaaawwww this right here just made my weekend
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He looks cute and just so sweet
I know it isn't very suitable in the story with the Elves going to war and everything, but I hope we get to see him smile at least once in the film. Perhaps at the very end of bofa, just to see him being able to have a little joy instead of all the seriousness and dread.
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VValar
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Oct 24 2014, 9:30pm
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How cool is this??
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Oct 24 2014, 9:37pm
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They passed this opportunity to establish a more loving relationship between our favorite Elves 
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VValar
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Oct 24 2014, 10:00pm
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*Squee!* those last two photos are to die for
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These:
They are the kind of smiles I would to see in BoFA, don't you? 
He looks like a younger, carefree version of himself.
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VValar
Mithlond
Oct 24 2014, 10:07pm
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There aren't a whole lot of Elves in comparison to the other races looking at this pic
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Where would Thranduil be fighting you reckon, at #17 or 18?
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VValar
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Oct 24 2014, 10:42pm
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Argh the last topic went by so fast I forgot to reply.
First I just have to repost your picture of that scene, which I thought would have been an absolutely amazing new setting. I hope that one day a very talented fanartist will make it come to life.
another location in the Halls... and look at Erebor in the distance! I can just imagine it, Thranduil making time everyday for the longest time to just stand there and stare at it, thinking about the White-Gems.
Yes I would imagine it to be a private, therefor favourite, place for Thranduil to go to as well. He is able to oversee a large part of his Kingdom. Though it could be he thinks of the Lonely Mountain with an unsettling feeling, knowing there is a highly short-tempered and dangerous neighbour living there.
It's a Thranduil and Leggy moment. And they both speak Elvish!
We want more of it, and I'm not talking solely about the father and son moment. LP does an amazing job with the Elvish *squee!* and I think I stopped breathing for a couple of seconds when I heard it in combination with (how you desribe it): a display of a different and softer emotion that we haven't seen before I swear I will have a massive error in my head when I hear him talking more Elvish in Bofa, to Legolas and/or his army *THUD!*
Legolas gets character layering. He's not the jealous little princeling hanging on to Tauriel. This puts a different spin to their relationship, which would have been great to see. Also, he's a trusted confidante of Thranduil here. And that's as it should, for beings who live so long. Legolas' knowledge he displays in LotR makes sense with this... he didn't just sleep on an encyclopedia of ME one night and wake up in time to fulfil his destiny as the Oracle of the (partial)Fellowship.
LOL at your encyclopedia comparison. It makes sense some of the wisdom and thoughtfulness from his father rubbing off on him eventually. I like the way you describe Legolas as a trusted confidante of Thranduil. It's the opposite feeling we get while watching the Tauriel/Leggy 'It's not our fight' scene when his motives for coming after her aren't explained at all. I've said it before and I will say it again: huge fail to not include this wonderful clip.
Thranduil's awesome intellect and intuiting ability on display. "You have two days" he say so simply. Without ado or drama, but it's so full of PORTENT. And shows, imo, he cares very much for Tauriel in his own way, being willing to let Legolas even try. And even Legolas catching on is another side to him that's been missing.
I'm sorry I don't have any reasonable thoughts about Thranduil's motives here. Right after the 'You have two days' in Elvish, my mind freezes and won't work again for a couple of seconds afterwards. Do you think he would care deeply for Tauriel? What do you think Legolas means when he says his father has taken care of her of a couple of hundred years? Grrr so frustrating when we don't really know any history of the made up character created by the director.
I can understand that PJ took it out to preserve the impact of Bard's realisation. But why should it take away from the storyflow if it's worked in well? The crew has shown they're very capable of making things work if they wanted to. For example, why couldn't the scene of Bard making the discovery be interwoven with a small scene of Tauriel and Legolas en-route to Lake-town where Tauriel asks Legolas the circumstances of him getting the King's leave to come after her. He can tell her the deadline and do reminiscence of this exact scene, and as Thranduil recites the rhyme, the scene blends and morphs into Bard doing his thing. It's been done in the films before. For all the visual callbacks and resonances PJ has forced into TH, this would be the one call-back to all those LotR scenes of blending voices, seemingly disjointed scenes bleeding into one another that I would have loved and WANT TO SEE.
Personally when I first saw Bard's scene in DOS I loved the importance and impact of the moment. I can understand why PJ decided to not mess with it in the EE. That being said, I'm guessing he probably shot the deleted scene first. I just wish he could've given Thranduil perhaps a couple of other lines (that would still be of great relevance to the story), that way he might not have deleted the scene all together.
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Oct 24 2014, 10:49pm
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VValar
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Oct 24 2014, 10:52pm
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And look at his boots in the right gif, they really do look different from the black/velvet ones he wears in his fitting pictures.
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VValar
Mithlond
Oct 24 2014, 11:01pm
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Yeah that's right Dwalin, you annoy His Kingship to no end
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The more I see of Thranduil the more I’m convinced that whoever wrote his dialogue has a history of working with the public.
Because of course Thranduil treats everyone this way. He’s got better things to do with his time than *mess* with complete strangers, and he’d probably much rather never interact with the people who use his road. But guess what? People probably keep damaging the forest, spying on his people, and wandering off and dying. And he’s had to deal with this *crap* for centuries. Centuries of being on call 24/7 to deal with this *crap* because people can’t STAY ON THE *BLOODY* ROAD. I think that at this point he’s simply transcended having any *hecks* to give, and so rather than take the time to explain himself for the 500th time this Age, he’s just resorted to full on mocking Dwalin’s questioning of his judgement and not giving a *heck* whether Dwalin catches on or not.
It’s glorious.
Thanks for posting it here. I agree with the author and I find it and interesting view on how Thranduil would possibly treat any (unwelcome) visitor. Especially the ones who strayed off the path and doing all sorts of forbidden things, like the Dwarves
LOL, gotta love Rocket
LOL 2 at the typical fangirling behaviour picture Us on a daily basis perhaps? I know it's moi  
But, as we all know:
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Mithlond
Oct 24 2014, 11:03pm
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Bookmarked it, going to read it in the morning. Looks interesting!
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Mithlond
Oct 24 2014, 11:13pm
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Very inventive folk those Elves, creating elastic hair bands and everything 
I guess it's safe to say most Thralls are glad for the black/silver armor Thranduil is going to wear instead of this white concept armor. It's purrrrrfect
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Mithlond
Oct 24 2014, 11:30pm
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Let us all take a moment and appreciate the armor Pretty! that PJ has bestowed upon us.
We never get bored of it, do we?
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Lurker in the Mirk
Doriath
Oct 25 2014, 8:30am
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Dale, the same place we saw him in the teaser.
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Lurker in the Mirk
Doriath
Oct 25 2014, 8:52am
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How thoughtful-pensive is he?
Our favourite fan artist strikes again
"I'll say dark and gritty, which, with the Elvenking, translates as Hot and Sexy. " - vanima ephel
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Thrall Wars!: What business do Elves, Dwarves or Men(?) have with drooling thralls, yea, with smartphones in tow, unto the slopes of Erebor? ... oh, yes, the Hobbit's lingering in some shadows, ever ready to swoop to the hairy rescue. Take cover if you dare! Teh partsies: Prologue (aka the 'tater-mash of whatever came before), two, three, three-appendix: An Unexpected Flashback, four, five (new, posted 20 August)
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Oct 25 2014, 8:54am
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Source: http://thorinshielding.tumblr.com/...-and-pics-from-total
THE ORCS ATTACK DALE AND THRANDY IS THERE AND SO IS GANDALF AND GANDALF WANTS TO WARN THORIN BUT THRANDY SAYS NO, THEN BILBO WANTS TO GO TO WARN THEM BUT GANDALF SAYS ‘I WONT ALLOW IT’ AND BILBO SAYS ‘IM NOT ASKING YOU TO ALLOW IT. THOSE ARE MY FRIENDS OUT THERE. IM GOING.’
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Is PJ try to make Thranduil the bad guy again......
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Lurker in the Mirk
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Oct 25 2014, 9:01am
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hmm... ... I thought I did mention it but
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Personally when I first saw Bard's scene in DOS I loved the importance and impact of the moment. I can understand why PJ decided to not mess with it in the EE. That being said, I'm guessing he probably shot the deleted scene first. I just wish he could've given Thranduil perhaps a couple of other lines (that would still be of great relevance to the story), that way he might not have deleted the scene all together. Agree about Bard's scene. What I was positing was IF indeed PJ wanted to show this moment, and if indeed there was no way to do callbacks and reshoot the scene with new dialogue, then what I described might be a way to still work it in. But well, it's all moot really.
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Thrall Wars!: What business do Elves, Dwarves or Men(?) have with drooling thralls, yea, with smartphones in tow, unto the slopes of Erebor? ... oh, yes, the Hobbit's lingering in some shadows, ever ready to swoop to the hairy rescue. Take cover if you dare! Teh partsies: Prologue (aka the 'tater-mash of whatever came before), two, three, three-appendix: An Unexpected Flashback, four, five (new, posted 20 August)
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Lurker in the Mirk
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Oct 25 2014, 9:03am
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[potential BotFA spoiler] PH quote about Thranduil/LP and thoughts
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Source not mentioned on the tumblr post where this is from. Though it seems to indicate there's character-arc and development for Thranduil? A sort of redemptive plotline? Though, as mentioned to VValar in another conversation, I have trust issues now, and will believe it when I see it.
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Lurker in the Mirk
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Oct 25 2014, 9:08am
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this is one of those bits of info which makes me doubt the message we seem to be getting from this. The premise is promising, and I really do prefer my Elves grey than straightup black and white. But PJ has demonstrated he has the capacity to go LITERAL so that's the unknown factor in what we'll get.  I guess we really will have to just wait and see.
But let's count to 10 and try not to fret too much.
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Oct 25 2014, 1:05pm
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I can never access this site to read the articles. I've tried different servers = Safari, Chrome, Mozilla and IE, but no go [I'm in the UK - don't know whether it is blocked from here, or something to do with my internet connection]
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Oct 25 2014, 1:09pm
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Good find. She's done us proud again. This is a lovely image.
I don't recognise the source image though - wonder where she found it
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They got taken down before I got to them
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