Heavy Hitters

[DavetheLost]

I am just shocked that the words of Evangeline Lilly are not taken as canonical. I mean she plays an Elf that Bilbo never mentioned in "There and Back Again" how could she be less than an authority on all things Middle Earth? Besides she was in like Lost and stuff.

I do agree that mixing the movies and the two novels is dangerous ground to tread. Even more so when we add in all the Tolkien material not covered by the license.

It would help if people could be clear on which version of Middle Earth they are referring to. We have at least three and sometimes four going on here as sources. 1) Tolkien's writings, 2) The One Ring RPG, 3) Peter Jackson's movies, 4) ICE's Middle Earth Role Playing. I have seen each of these four cited as sources in various threads here.

[James Harrison]

I think the confusion here lies in the fact that some people are talking about the book, some are talking about the movies, and some are freely mixing the two. Personally, I game strictly to the books. I am exasperated when someone gives a movie detail thinking it's in the book.

Hear hear

[Otaku-sempai]

Nothing against Evangeline Lilly, but she can't even cite her own character's film-canonical age correctly. Legolas claarly establishes it at 600 years in The Desolation of Smaug, but she keeps wanting to cut it in half.