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anghraineYT recommended a video about book canon Elros w/ a title screen of Elros clearly based on Hugo Weaving while wearing Aragorn’s bland film crown.
So close, and yet so far.
a) Yeah, the canon crown wouldn't really fit with film!Gondor's aesthetic, but maybe if they'd gone for Tolkien's vastly more interesting concept of Gondor/MT as ancient Egypt meets fifteenth-century Constantinople+Rome it wouldn't be a problem.
b) Any crown that the Kings of Númenor might have worn would have gotten entombed and/or drowned anyway.
c) I think Hugo Weaving was horrendously miscast and poorly written, so the inescapability of his version of Elrond is super frustrating.
So close, and yet so far.
a) Yeah, the canon crown wouldn't really fit with film!Gondor's aesthetic, but maybe if they'd gone for Tolkien's vastly more interesting concept of Gondor/MT as ancient Egypt meets fifteenth-century Constantinople+Rome it wouldn't be a problem.
b) Any crown that the Kings of Númenor might have worn would have gotten entombed and/or drowned anyway.
c) I think Hugo Weaving was horrendously miscast and poorly written, so the inescapability of his version of Elrond is super frustrating.