You'd have monsters developing tastes for the most obscure or ridiculous things, too. Like, elf hair! Orcs! (that would be bad for morale).
Honestly I didn't think any of the dwarves in the book (though of course I haven't read it in years) were really sympathetic? Or I mean, not that necessarily (they were clearly good characters) as none of them really felt like actual living breathing people with hopes and wants and needs to me, they were all kind of just there. Thorin wasn't unsympathetic as much as just very grumpy, I remember him, but he was also kind of just there, too... I suppose my younger self interpreted Bilbo as rather self-absorbed. And I agree that that wouldn't have worked in a movie, so it is for the best that Thorin gets more development! I should probably have expected the shipping though, even before the movie, ahah/
Same with the Necromancer/Sauron -- iirc in the book he was more a plot device to draw Gandalf away from the Thorin-and-co (b/c Gandalf is too powerful most of the time) than anything else directly affecting the plot. We've seen him doing some actual necromancy with the whole Angmar thing, but do we see any more of him/Benedict Cumberbatch acting, I wonder?? Or fight scenes with the White Council?? I am massively excited :D
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Date: 2013-01-13 11:11 am (UTC)From:Honestly I didn't think any of the dwarves in the book (though of course I haven't read it in years) were really sympathetic? Or I mean, not that necessarily (they were clearly good characters) as none of them really felt like actual living breathing people with hopes and wants and needs to me, they were all kind of just there. Thorin wasn't unsympathetic as much as just very grumpy, I remember him, but he was also kind of just there, too... I suppose my younger self interpreted Bilbo as rather self-absorbed. And I agree that that wouldn't have worked in a movie, so it is for the best that Thorin gets more development! I should probably have expected the shipping though, even before the movie, ahah/
Same with the Necromancer/Sauron -- iirc in the book he was more a plot device to draw Gandalf away from the Thorin-and-co (b/c Gandalf is too powerful most of the time) than anything else directly affecting the plot. We've seen him doing some actual necromancy with the whole Angmar thing, but do we see any more of him/Benedict Cumberbatch acting, I wonder?? Or fight scenes with the White Council?? I am massively excited :D