r/lotrmemes • u/LiamIsMyNameOk • Jan 31 '23

I first read the books as a child before even knowing there were movies for it, and had no experience with other elves in media... Except for Harry Potter. This is how I pictured all the Elves. Exactly the same but with hair. I'll always treasure that. Other

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u/tguff74 Jan 31 '23

And if you only look at the wood elves in the Rankin Bass animated hobbit movie, you weren't that far off.

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u/dudius7 Feb 01 '23

I came to say this. It's hard not to picture them that way when reading the book, with all the singing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

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u/gollum_botses Jan 31 '23

Nice hobbits! Nice Sam! Sleepy heads, yes, sleepy heads! Leave good Smeagol to watch! But it's evening. Dusk is creeping. Time to go.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

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u/gollum_botses Jan 31 '23

No time to lose, silly!

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u/BolonelSanders Jan 31 '23

When I was a kid (before the Peter Jackson movies came out) my dad read me The Hobbit, and I imagined the elves as sorta like the Keebler elfs

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u/ideal_observer Feb 01 '23

This is hilarious, and it’s just as funny the other way around. Imagine if Dobby looked like Legolas.

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u/legolas_bot Feb 01 '23

Or too few.

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u/CameoAmalthea Feb 01 '23

So did the people who made the Hobbit cartoon

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u/LiamIsMyNameOk Feb 01 '23

I had no idea. That's crazy and hilarious

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u/Environmental-Toe798 Jan 31 '23

Celeborn in the cartoons: 🤐

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u/VirtualRelic Sleepless Dead Jan 31 '23

Dobby is more like a goblin than anything, certainly not an elf

JK Rowling is straight up wrong

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u/Lightice1 Feb 01 '23

Elves are fictional beings. They don't have a "real" appearance. If you look around folklore and fiction, you can find way weirder elves than anything that Rowling made up.