When the complete company was announced, I couldn’t help but notice there were a few fetching young Englishmen about to be covered in dwarven prosthetic. What a shame. They weren’t even going to get the swooning Merry and Pippin did.
Then the first two stills came out, and it became apparent The Hobbit was going to let some individuality shine in their faces. They were going to even let them have a little flair. (Which, let’s be honest, is the only way we’re going to tell the characters apart. Reading the comments the past few days, I’m relieved to see I wasn’t the only one who didn’t remember Bombur from Oin.)
Today, we get to see Dean O’ Gorman as Fili and Aidan Turner as Kili and…well, they’re kind of hot. They look like guys I’d let buy me a drink at the Renaissance Faire — or rather, the guys I wish would buy me a beer, but never do, so I buy my own and feel bad about myself.
I’ve said too much. Here’s the photo, which premiered on MSN. Peter Jackson will have the repeat fangirl attendees locked down, especially with Turner.
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Sorry but those two look nothing like dwarves. Look like mini-me Aragorn and mini-me Legolas. Epic fail Peter Jackson.
Whatever. Hot dwarfs are rad.
zomg blonde dwarves?!1! I am rescinding my money already. Looks like we have some youth to round out the doubtless curmudgeonly elder, more stereotypically “dwarfish” dwarves.
I would also let them buy me a beer. Then again, I’d pretty much let anybody buy me a beer. I like beer.
Shame on you, Peter Jackson, for challenging our preconceived notions of cliched fantasy stereotypes. What’s next? Wizard without beards and pointy hats? Witches without brooms? Vikings without horns on their helmets?
McGreedy’s got a point, though: the one on the right, especially, looks straight-up human.
…Young midget Klingons?…yikes!
Fili and Kili are the youngest dwarves in Thorin’s entourage. Seems only fitting that they LOOK younger than the rest of the crew. I, for one, dig it. Even the choice of weapons, over the tried-and-true battleaxe, is a nice touch. It’s different, it’s a fresh but true take on conventions, and pretty damned far from an “epic fail”.
…all of which has been done, right? Why interpret the material to make it “contemporary” or sexy? I’m not up-in-arms about this, but the idea of introducing contemporary imagery or iconography to literature or convention is itself cliché. it’s rarely done to any good effect (A Knight’s Tale comes to mind of an an exception to this).
Whatever, Jackson has earned my trust and I’ll be buying a ticket.
I don’t think PJ was going for sexy or contemporary. I think he was just trying to create a younger looking dwarf to fit the story/movie, and I for one think it works. Just one man’s opinion, but I can’t think of the last time I saw a fantasy dwarf that didn’t look like a clone of every other fantasy dwarf I’ve ever seen. They’re a race like any other, and it seems they’d be naturally a wider variety, including younger, skinnier, taller, shorter… and dare I say sexier variety.
I might have to rethink my policy on short guys…
You girls should feel insulted that Jackson seems to think you will only see the film if he makes some of the dwarves sexy. They haven’t even put a dwarfish nose on Fili like they have on the other ones. That is just ridiculous.
Everything I’ve seen so far has been awesome, I am ridiculously excited about these movies…Yah PJ!!
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