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...

[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.

[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.