Stephen Fry in Desolation of Smaug

[caligularib.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else notice Stephen Fry as the Master of Laketown in The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug?

Of course I can't see the wonderful Mr. Fry in anything without my brain circling back to Jeeves so... Tolkien/Wodehouse AU anyone?

Comments

[schreckschraube.livejournal.com]

"Excuse me, sir, but there seems to be a goblin in the lavatory"... nooo, that's no good...

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

No, no, srsly, that IS good! *giggling inside still*

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

how can anyone not notice Stephen Fry?

[jestana.livejournal.com]

That was an utterly ghastly costume they put him in. If there was any doubt that you could make someone ugly without prosthetics, doubt no longer.

[drunken-kurage.livejournal.com]

The hair certainly doesn't help. I looked like something had crawled on his head and died.

Jeeves would weep.

[jestana.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes. Jeeves totally would.

[schreckschraube.livejournal.com]

And that hat! That mongol hat that he wears in the scene where he sees the dwarves off to the mountain! With the three bouncy feathers on top! I saw the movie with my mother (who doesn't know who Steven Fry is), and she couldn't stop laughing about it.

[jestana.livejournal.com]

I missed the hat. I was more focused on the dwarves.

[schreckschraube.livejournal.com]

It's only visible for about 6 seconds.

[rathanylakan.livejournal.com]

How would Jeeves work in Tolkien? A perfectly correct Steward of Gondor dealing with a daffy king back in the bygone era of the Second Age??

[lawnnun.livejournal.com]

I love how Stephen Fry's most-cast type these days is, "Appalling social climber." I thought of his turn in 'Gosford Park' the entire time. XD

And really, Jeeves would be Gandalf. Full of inscrutable purpose, can't be bothered with your shit all the time, powerful, basically loyal... Oh dear, it would probably turn into Gandalf/Bilbo on us. Bertie the hobbit makes complete sense, after all.

...You know, since Gandalf actually isn't human, he's *checks Wikipedia* a Maia (and talk about unpacking *that*) one could also do something where Jeeves just is one, in the canon place and time.

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

Bertie could be a half-elf of some sort, tall and willowy with dreamy eyes, but still absolutely 'Bertie'-ish, to the other elves' dismay. (maybe even funnier if no one was quite sure what the other half was? we all know how those midsummer festivals can be, right?)

I do like a Gandalfish Jeeves, though. Couldn't there be one of the Maiar who got side-tracked far too often looking after that strangely-likeable half-elf fellow. Or disguised as a servant, but really a Maia?

*releases several plot bunnies from a hutch that wasn't there ten minutes ago, before reading Lawnnun's comment*