fauve opened this issue on Dec 17, 2001 ยท 38 posts
fauve posted Mon, 17 December 2001 at 1:04 PM
Thanks very very much for all the feedback! Aleks, yes, I have read the books. I first read them back in the early 1970s when all the hippies got into Tolkien, and I've re-read them on a regular basis since. :-> Though I'm not one of the people who knows all the lore and can write Elvish and stuff. I just enjoy the story. I haven't seen the film yet. I don't think it's been released. When I started the morph I went by a press photo I found on the web of Hugo Weaving as Elrond. I think I'm going to like the movie very much... it's one person's vision of Tolkien brought to life, yes, but very lovingly and faithfully done IMO. I don't know if you remember the very bad animated LotR movie that Ralph Bakshi did about twenty, twenty-five years ago... I was so disappointed in it. The new film is worlds away from that. It looks like it will be much better and truer to the books. "Generic" Elf was just meant to signify that he's not intended to be any particular Tolkien character. I gave him pointed ears because I imagine Elves to have pointed ears and I like the way that looks. I should say, though, I didn't make the ear morph... it's MabFairyQueen's excellent elf ear (I liked it better than the default one.) -nemo