Elves

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Elves are cute! CUTE!
I want to adopt an elf.

God damn I love that picture.

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I'm posting Frey. Not actually an elf, but still king of the elves. Am I an outlaw? Am I a rebel?

He was so damn fabulous, and the first time he is seen, he manages to establish such a great air of superiority, arrogance and elegance.
It was perfect.
Even the fight scenes where he was were great.
youtube.com/watch?v=2OMtzJWz6a8
>dat roll after being thrown off the Elk.

LIES DEEP IN THE DARK
WHEN TIME STANDS STILL
AT THE IRON HILL

>being cute when you could be so much more

Overall they were pretty bad, but some things the Hobbit got really right.

Great deeds are forgotten, cute is forever.
Neither are mutually exclusive

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I found those films pretty ok overall. The only major issues I had with them were the addition of that romance plot between Tauriel and Kili (I din't mind Tauriel herself), and the retarded scene where Smaug chased the Dwarves in Erebor. It completely ruined the tension and buildup the scene where Bilbo talked with Smaug had achieved.

The scene where Elrond and Saruman fight against the Nazguls is pretty great.
youtube.com/watch?v=bhzzfXQmv9w

From the behind the scenes material it seems that Christopher Lee was pretty glad to portray Saruman before he became evil.

Eh, maybe I put that badly. I mean, they were very succesful commercially and a lot of people honestly seem to like them a lot, but I myself haven't yet recovered from that feeling of absolute underwhelming-ness I felt when AUJ's credits started rolling.
In any case, I won't be buying any fancy box sets.

>tfw the line parties were more entertaining than the actual movies

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Oh, I agree on them being pretty underwhelming, especially when compared to the LotR trilogy.
I still enjoyed the Hobbit trilogy though.
They had some scenes that were really god damn powerful imo, first and foremost being Bilbo's riddles with Smaug.
The voice of that Dragon was amazing.

>Smaug
I fucking loved it when he rose from the hoard.

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Same here.
The way he speaks and his voice fits extremely well with his movements and behavior.

Where do pointy ears originate? I don't think I've seen them in Tolkien's descriptions

Funny thing is, Cucumberpatch mimicked dragon's movements, the crazy bastard

I think he at some point described their ears as leaf-shaped, but it's really vague and you could probably argue for round-eared Tolkien elves.

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>It was stated in early linguistic writings that "the Quendian ears were more pointed and leaf-shaped than Human."[4][5] Answering to a question on Hobbit ears, Tolkien wrote that these were "only slightly pointed and 'elvish'" [6] Some fans take this to mean that Elvish ears were pointed, while others argue that it is an ambiguous statement.[2][3]

I know, that absolute madman.
I don't get why he is so hated on this site.

He also spoke the Black Speech in the Dol Guldur scenes. Backwards.
He fucking spoke those lines backwards, and they were ten reversed for extra creepy factor in post production.
youtube.com/watch?v=nxULVWhG1ac

He does some amazing things with his voice.

>Elves are great
No they aren't. Fuck elves, they're fucking disgusting and deserve to be tortured for eternity. And not just elves. Fuck any race that isn't human.

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Stay mad.

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>I don't get why he is so hated on this site.
Is he really? I mean, his name is mocked often and his face looks weird but otherwise I don't think anyone's going to argue he's not an amazing actor

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When Desolation of Smaug was released, people were shitting on it here because Benedict played him.
Not on Veeky Forums, but on boards like /v/ and /tv/.
Though, those boards are shit, so I shouldn't be surprised.

I really like this one.

Fucking Elves and their Oaths.

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>almost all of the thread is Tolkien
I'm not complaining, but let's have some variety.

Badass elves!

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Elder Scrolls elves are pretty hype in the lore.
Too bad that that Lore hasn't really been on the focus since Morrowind.

I also like the fact that they look pretty different from humans, at least in Morrowind and Skyrim.
Everyone was a potato in Oblivion.

True that, and a shame the situation probably won't improve.

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>there were people who thought Skyrim's mer should look like they did in Oblivion

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Indeed.
Todd knows that the casual market doesn't give two shits about the lore.

Surely you jesting. Who the hell would want anything to look like Oblivion?

Jesus I forgot how ugly that game was.

Some developers should just stick to low poly models and low res textures. It hides incompetence better.

What the fuck is this

elves

>blindly following a moron for 200 years
They all had it coming.

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Either:
1) years on this planet are very short
2) these elves are very slow
3) whoever wrote this has no sense of scale

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shitpost

Three captchas? Really?

Bit of an alternative interpretation of elves from Red Tide campaign setting

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What kind of mounts do you like for elves?

I like elves on god damn horses.

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I'll bet on 3. Genre fiction writers are the dregs of the profession.

Horses or Terror birds for plains
Dogs or (Irish) Elk for tundra
Lizards or spiders for underground caves

I like horses as well, at least on the more Tolkien-esque Elves.

What's wrong with the scale?
Not sure I see what's so obviously wrong with it.

Genociding someone more short-lived than you for 100 years?
Gathering armies for 40-70?

That's nonsense even with longer lifespans

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>That's nonsense even with longer lifespans
Not really it's easily explained with longer lifespans.

If you're a ruler who can live on for centuries you can wait for the population to replenish itself, new elves are born, grow up and can train a number of years as soldiers.

>Genociding someone more short-lived than you for 100 years?
Not sure I understand the issue.
Obviously the elf wanted some kind of vengeance and didn't stop until that dwarf king was dead.

You can't press your enemy for 100 years straight. And I'm pretty sure they're born faster than you kill them if it takes you a freaking century

I summon Virt.

May he torture every single elf.

Qt-rexes

There are plenty of real life conflicts that have lasted that long and they didn't include people who did not die of old age.
And there's simply not enough information on how dense the conflict is, it doesn't have to be a stalingrad every day of the war for it to be a war.

>And I'm pretty sure they're born faster than you kill them if it takes you a freaking century

Offensive war is more likely to destroy the replenishability of the defender than for the defender.
Farms, child bearers.
Even if it didn't, it could still work out in the end if the offensive nation already replenishes faster.

Also, the war ultimately failed, all people in fiction don't always make the best choices.

Mah n'wah

>tfw you couldn't ride the stilt srider that was in the Dragonborn expansion of Skyrim

Fucking bethesda.

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Just post elves man. Its a thread all about posting elves.

They really are the cutest.

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