Which actor did the best at portraying their character?


There were a lot of good ones - Gandalf, Aragorn etc but for me the one who ended up being the closest to what I imagined from the books had to be Samwise.

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I think Anthony Serkis was up there, even though he was covered in CGI.

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Yes, it was a good portrayal. Before he became Gollum, I keep thinking of him as Ozzy.

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Like you said, there are many to choose from. I thought the Rohan Trio were all great - Bernard Hill as Theoden, Karl Urban as Eomer and Miranda Otto as Eowyn.

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I was going to nominate Bernard Hill myself! Overall I think the casting and acting in these films is damn good, although of course I have all sorts of niggling book-fan-film-geek nitpicks.

I have no nitpicks with Hill's performance, and I thought he brought more to the character than was there in the script. That's what really good actors do.

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You're right. His performance made Theoden my favorite character.

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I liked the ring. I don't know if the ring used a stunt double in the fire place scene but even if it doesn't do it's own stunts, it did a great job. I think the carved part was make up. I don't believe ring got tattooed just for the movie. I think that's just his PR agent.

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Hahaha! Nice one.

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The King of the Dead. Provable by the fact that nobody has ever complained about him. :)

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Samwise // Sean Astin.

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Theoden and Sam were spot on with how they were in my head. Gandolf was real close, too.

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