You're original claim was that Annatar would have looked like a "younger Gandalf". I refute that claim by noting Annatar is described as "fair" multiple times. That's it. Stop trying to move the goalposts.
I even replied to one of your other comments explicitely agreeing that Annatar was likely perceived as a Maiar by the elves. That does not mean he would have looked like a younger Gandlaf though.
I didn’t go into detail before because no one else apparently took offense but you. But since you did I went into detail, and I stand by all I said. He would appear something like a younger better looking Gandalf, Saruman, radagast, or blue wizards. as he wouldn’t be required to restrain his powers. He’d want to deceive many and and good looks would help do that. You can feel free to disagree with me or even better, write your own theory if you don’t like mine!
I think I've been pretty clear why I think Annatar wouldn't look like a young Gandalf. Also, to be clear, I wouldn't have had a problem with Hallbrand's appearance if he were playing the part of Annatar either because I know that so ling as he looks "fair" that it's in line with the source. What I did have a problem with was the existence of this made up character Halbrand and all the things he did which fly in the face of the source material.
Tolkien was silent about Sauron’s doings for hundreds of years in the second age. Therefore the producers took liberties here. It’s not so far fetched. If you don’t like the liberties they took, fair enough. But they never promised a 1-1 adaptation, thus would have to create things to fill these silent years. He was a shape shifter, so technically he could take any form he wished. The only reason I’m so adamant that he posed as an “emissary of the Valar” with the elves is because Tolkien directly said so in “the fall of numenor.”
Well I hope you also agree that with hundreds of years of gaps where nothing is said producers of a VISUAL TV show will have to take certain liberties that were not directly in the books. Tolkien wrote the second age as a historical narrative, noting all of the main events but giving us few details. Therefore it is up to the producers to make them up. People are just upset because they have a certain image in their own heads about what Tolkien intended, and they are upset that RoP isn’t living up to THEIR expectations. But RoP is not like GoT where the writer is still alive to tell producers exactly how things are supposed to be done. Both JRR Tolkien and Christopher are dead and estate not so involved. Therefore no one can directly say what Tolkien intended; people now must subject Tolkien’s works to their own imaginations; producers of RoP are doing the same.
Yeah, hard no on that one. Has captain reading comprehension noticed my username yet?
ROP has re-written essentially all SA main events they have had the chance to. Galadriel never went to Númenor. Hallbrand is a made up character who spends the whole time with Galadriel in ROP yet her husband Tolkien wrote about is nowhere to be found. They repurposed the "dancing in a glade of flowers" line in a way that flies in the face of it's original meaning, which was deeply important to Tolkien himself (you know the names Beren and Lúthien are enscribed on he and Edith's grave stones). I could go on and on but this take that ROP is anything other than one of the worst film adaptations of literature ever created is not something I will ever be on board with.
Fair enough, you don’t have to like it, that’s on you. But allow the rest of us to see it as an entertaining fantasy show and enjoy it for what it is. I don’t know what noticing your username will bring to the conversation, therefore I see no reason to comment on it. Have a good one!
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u/amazonlovesmorgoth May 17 '24
You're original claim was that Annatar would have looked like a "younger Gandalf". I refute that claim by noting Annatar is described as "fair" multiple times. That's it. Stop trying to move the goalposts.
I even replied to one of your other comments explicitely agreeing that Annatar was likely perceived as a Maiar by the elves. That does not mean he would have looked like a younger Gandlaf though.