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ange1e4e5
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May 12 2016, 1:39am
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Casting for The Silmarillion 3
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This is my third try for people to post who they would like to see in a film or tv version of The Silmarillion.
The Beginning of Days
Director: Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
Writer: Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility (2008)
Music: John Williams (various)
Eru Iluvatar (voice): Liam Neeson
Manwe: Christian Bale
Varda: Marion Cotillard
Melkor/Morgoth: Toby Kebbell, Hugh Keays-Byrne (voice)
Ulmo: Daniel Craig
Aule: Jon Bernthal (Daredevil)
Yavanna: Elizabeth Henstridge (Marvel: Agents of Shield)
Nienna: Hattie Morahan (Sense and Sensibility (2008), Beauty and the Beast)
Orome: Daniel Bruhl (Inglorious Bastards, Captain America: Civil War)
Mandos: Jim Cavaziel
Irmo: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Este: Sally Hawkins (Persuasion (2007), An Education)
Tulkas: Chris Hemsworth
Nessa: Summer Glau
Vaire: Rosamund Pike
Vana: Emma Watson
More will follow.
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Gondor
May 12 2016, 1:45am
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Of the Fall of Feanor
Director: Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, The Martian)
Writer: Andrew Davies
Music: John Williams
Ingwe: Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
Finwe: Jason Isaacs
Miriel: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Indis: Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Feanor: Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones)
Nerdanel: Rosalind Halstead (Wuthering Heights (2009))
Mahtan: Ray Stevenson
Maedhros: Domhnall Gleeson
Maglor: Nicholas Hoult
Celegorm: Chad Michael Murray
Caranthir: Matthew Lewis
Curufin: Shia LaBoeuf
Fingolfin: Ewan McGregor
Fingon: Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean, Kingsman: The Secret Service)
Finarfin: Tom Felton
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Gondor
May 12 2016, 1:48am
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The Tale of Beren and Luthien
Director: Michael Mann (The Last of the Mohicans, Heat)
Writer: Andrew Davies
Music: Trevor Jones
Beren: Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, Cinderella)
Luthien: Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl)
Finrod: Nico Evers-Swindell (Will and Kate, Grimm)
Sauron: Adam Driver (Girls, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) or Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma)
Thingol: Paul Bettany (Iron Man, The Young Victoria)
Melian: Eva Green
Huan: Idris Elba
Celembrimbor: Asa Butterfield
Barahir: Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty)
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ange1e4e5
Gondor
May 12 2016, 2:02am
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The Children of Hurin
Director: Alejandro Innaritu (The Revenant)
Writer: Andrew Davies
Music: Trevor Jones
Turin: Liam Hemsworth
Nienor: Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby, The Man from U.N.C.L.E)
Brandir: Iain de Caestecker (Marvel's Agents of Shield)
Glaurung: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall)
Beleg: J.J. Feild (Northanger Abbey, Captain America: The First Avenger)
Gwindor: Charlie Cox (Daredevil)
Finduilas: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Androg: Sharlto Copley (District 9, Elysium)
Mim: Timothy Spall
Hurin: Nick Blood (Marvel's Agents of Shield)
Morwen: Abby Cornish
Saeros: Burn Gorman (Wuthering Heights (2009))
Brodda: Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy)
Sador Labadal: Brandon Gleeson (Harry Potter, Braveheart, Cold Mountain)
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ange1e4e5
Gondor
May 12 2016, 2:05am
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The Fall of Gondolin
Director: James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma)
Writer: Andrew Davies
Music: John Williams
Tuor: William Moseley
Idril: Lily James
Maeglin: Freddie Highmore or Frank Dillane
Turgon: Sasha Roiz
Eol: David Tennant
Aredhal: Charlotte Riley (Wuthering Heights (2009))
Gothmog: Nathan Jones
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ange1e4e5
Gondor
May 12 2016, 2:05am
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Ungoliant: Helena Bonham Carter
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ange1e4e5
Gondor
May 12 2016, 2:08am
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So feel free to give your opinions on casts, put up your own, and please be polite about your opinions.
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ange1e4e5
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May 12 2016, 1:44pm
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Gondor
May 13 2016, 12:45pm
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Thank you very much for your interest.
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Do you have alternate suggestions?
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dormouse
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May 13 2016, 1:09pm
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Please don't be too despondent.....
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You've put so much work into this I feel really bad for not having anything worthwhile to say on it. Fact is though, I can't summon up much enthusiasm for a film or TV version of the Silmarillion when I know that there isn't going to be one, at least in the foreseeable future. I'm also woefully bad at imaginary casting - there are a lot of names on your list I've never even heard of.
Maybe if you try to broaden the subject. You've obviously thought a lot about the characters in the Sil. Perhaps more people might join in with a discussion about favourite characters, not specifically related to who could play them.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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May 13 2016, 1:11pm
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Part of the fun in making a prospective cast was
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Simply thinking up who would be good in these roles.
So who are some of the names you didn't recognize?
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ange1e4e5
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May 13 2016, 2:00pm
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Orodreth: Andrew Lincoln (Wuthering Heights (2009), Love Actually, The Walking Dead)
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Ostadan
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May 13 2016, 4:34pm
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I once wrote (in More People's Guide to JRR Tolkien) that the casting game is really just a shorthand way for a fan to talk about how he or she sees the characters. If I see Tom Bombadil as (a younger) Brian Blessed, and you see him as a (still living) Robin Williams, we've had a brief conversation. The array of Hollywood actors, living and dead, becomes a kind of shorthand, like the language in the Star Trek Next Generation episode 'Darmok'.
Indeed, I see little point to the game otherwise.
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ange1e4e5
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May 13 2016, 4:40pm
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The point of the threads I have created on the subject is opinion, who someone would like to see portray the various characters in The Silmarillion.
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And also to provide a point of opinion to discuss the choices.
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May 14 2016, 12:11pm
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seems like a fun idea. I always imagined Tulkas as Tolkiens version of Thor.
I'd like the cousins Turin and Tuor played by the same actor, since they never meet face to face. Different hair and dress and of course played differently. Could be done
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May 14 2016, 6:21pm
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Who do you suggest to play Turin/Tuor?
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ange1e4e5
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May 14 2016, 9:05pm
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An actor in his mid-twenties to late thirties, any hair color, tall, and can play multiple roles.
Daniel Day-Lewis would have been perfect in the 80s-early 90s.
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dormouse
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May 14 2016, 10:24pm
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Im afraid it's quicker to tell you which ones I do recognise!
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From your first post:
Liam Neeson, Christian Bale, Daniel Craig, Hattie Moraham, Emma Watson
From your second:
Jason Isaacs, Domnhall Gleeson, Ewan McGregor, Tom Felton
From your third:
Alicia Vikander, Paul Bettany, Eva Green, Idris Elba, Asa Butterfield
Fourth:
Timothy Spall, Burn Gorman, Brandon Gleeson
Fifth:
William Moseley, Lily James, Freddie Highmore, David Tennant
I've never heard of any of the other actors you've listed - so though I take the point someone else made about this being a way of discussing the characters, I'd say it only works if everyone involved knows who the actors are!
But I'm interested that you've included Paul Bettany - he was always my first choice for Thranduil. I also used his face once as model for drawings of Elladan and Elrohir.
It also intrigues me that you've named Andrew Davies as writer. I think he would be a very interesting choice, partly because his adaptations are so good, partly because he is never afraid not only to cut things to bring outessential elements of the original, partly because he's never afraid of adding things if he feels it's necessary.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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May 14 2016, 10:41pm
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It was primarily for his adaptations of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility that I thought he would be a good screenwriter.
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May 14 2016, 11:07pm
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He certainly would be - he is....
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...and though it think it's highly unlikely that it would ever happen, I'd love to see what he would make of the Sil - or any of Tolkien's stories.
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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ange1e4e5
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May 15 2016, 2:38pm
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Akallabeth
Director: Sam Mendes
Writer: Andrew Davies, David Self
Music: John Williams
Budget: $70 million
Elendil: Tom Hardy (Inception, Mad Max: Fury Road, Wuthering Heights (2009))
Amandil: Jeremy Irons (The Lion King, Batman v. Superman)
Ar-Pharazon: Michael Fassbender (Macbeth, X-Men: First Class)
Tar-Miriel: Felicity Jones (Northanger Abbey (2007), The Theory of Everything, Star Wars: Rogue One)
Isildur: Skandar Keynes (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Gil-galad: Eric Bana (Troy, Star Trek (2009))
Istari
Olorin: James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class, Atonement)
Curumo: Ed Skrein (Deadpool)
Aiwendil: Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood)
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Otaku-sempai
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May 15 2016, 3:19pm
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Istari
Olorin: James McAvoy (X-Men: First Class, Atonement)
Curumo: Ed Skrein (Deadpool)
Aiwendil: Jonas Armstrong (Robin Hood)
Huh? The Istari do not appear in Middle-earth until about the year 1000 of the Third Age or a bit later. And your casting suggestions for them are awfully young. How do they figure into the downfall of Númenor?
They came therefore in the shape of Men, though they were never young and aged only slowly, and they had many powers of mind and hand.
"He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows." -- Favorite proverb of the wizard Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, the "Gossiper of the Gods"
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May 15 2016, 3:25pm
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It was supposed to be its own separate section.
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The idea was that McAvoy, Skrein and Armstrong would also play their characters in Valinor as well.
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