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Legolas, You're Just So Darn...CUTE!

© Michael Martinez

Does Legolas get to do more in the next two movies? Well, I certainly hope so. Frankly, from what I hear, the "Fellowship of the Ring" DvD will have about 4-1/2 hours of footage. If the people at New Line Cinema have any marketing savvy at all, they'll be on the phone to Peter Jackson demanding that he release four more movies (instead of just two) and ensure that Legolas appears in all of them. They have the footage. They have the Elf. They have NO EXCUSES, and they'll please a lot of people while making twice as much money as they had anticipated. Can devoted fans write to Orlando? So I'm told, but I make no guarantees. Try these two addresses:

Orlando Bloom
c/o ICM
Oxford House
76 Oxford Street
London
W1N 0AX
England

Orlando Bloom
c/o Artists Management Group
9465 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills
CA 90212 USA

I don't know if you can ask for autographed photos. Nor do I know if it's okay to send Orlando pictures of yourselves. You have to be brave, ladies, and just do what your heart tells you. I hope he is ready for the stampede, because it's well underway. And what did Orlando do before they gave him his own fantasy movie trilogy? Well, according to the Official Movie Guide, when he was sixteen, he spent two seasons at the National Youth Theater (in the UK) and then moved on to London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He appeared in several plays there, then got a brief role in the movie "Wilde" (about 19th century writer Oscar Wilde's public disgrace), and finally moved on to a television show called Midsomer Murders. Finally, what was Orlando's favorite passtime while he was filming "The Lord of the Rings"? From what I hear, bungee jumping. I've thrown myself off a tower, too. It can be a very unnerving experience. E! Online's Force of Hobbit says Orlando couldn't stay away from the ropes. He's a man's Elf. And that is all I know about Orlando Bloom, give or take an idle fact or two I may have forgotten. I really do know more about Legolas than about Orlando, but I've already written as much about Legolas as I know, too. And speaking of Legolas...oh, yes. Orlando plays a character named Legolas in these movies Peter Jackson put together for him. How much like Tolkien's Legolas is Peter Jackson's Legolas? I've been asked that, actually. I noted in my review how spectacular Sir Ian McKellen is as Gandalf. I think he's absolutely fantastic as Gandalf. Well, I can honestly say the same thing about Orlando Bloom. He's absolutely fantastic as Legolas.