In the meantime, if you enjoyed the Finnish Hobbit (sure you did,) but couldn’t bring yourself to watch it long enough to get a look at Legolas, Cottonball McFluffy helpfully provides this screen shot of actor Ville Vartanen in the role. I could not tell which one he was supposed to be at first glance. The dude with the funky ponytail on the left is Boromir. The guy with the frizz problem is Legolas.
I wouldn’t say he rates as “…fair beyond the measure of men,” but I’d share my lembas.
THE ONE RING has crashed. Too…much…information.
SEE the video of the “lynch mob” union leaders claim assaulted them outside a Kiwi restaurant, forcing their delicate flower selves to seek police escort. Which, of course, never really happened except in the union boss’s brains. I swear, those Kiwi’s are so danged polite even when righteously PO’d that they practically buy the dude a teddy bear to assuage his hurt feelings.
OK, maybe they weren’t that sweet, but I’ve gotten more harassment at San Diego Comic Con from dudes dressed as Stormtroopers asking for directions to the toilet.
Yours truly about 4 years ago. I think. Photographer unknown. Those are some big dark circles under my eyes, so it must have been a late night.
Photo by the dashing and talented Jim Valentino! Me, mum, and the dashing and talented Cliff Broadway of The One Ring.net and Ringers.
2003-2005? Who knows. My family kept telling me I looked gaunt. I don’t think I look gaunt in this photo, I think I wish I still had that flat stomach. Then again, I don’t miss doing hundreds of sit-ups a day. And I like chocolate.
A little known 9 episode television version of The Hobbit made in Finland, circa 1993. Dug up by the folks at i09. More videos here.
Someone will either deliver a takedown notice, or they won’t. I’m not sure how legal this is, so I will just post a small bit and hope that’s covered by Fair Use.
You have got to see Boromir. He’s some samurai dude with a topknot of many braids. I must run and hug my Sideshow Weta Boromir sculpture, because it’s all about the Sean Bean, baby!
I think they edited out Legolas, which means someone in Finland doesn’t get his value as a love object. What fools these mortals be.
EDIT: OOP! My bad. Much later episode. There’s Legolas. He’s played by actor Ville Vartanen. Could not find pics to compare degree of hotness. And can’t sit through it all again, really.
Someone wrote a glowing review at IMDB. They swear the series is all that and the chips, but whoever did didn’t like the Peter Jackson version. I can’t wrap my brain around that, so there you go.