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Originally Posted by Quoth
I was surprised how "true" to the source that was. Compared to Marvel.
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Hell, almost anything "compared to Marvel" is going to be remotely truer to the source. But I agree--although I tired of the series pretty damn quickly, compared to his others, it was pretty close to what we "know."
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I didn't think much of the Thor Movie. Joanne "Chocolat" Harris and Neil Gaiman have both done the Norse stuff well. Tolkien's elves are really Irish sidhe (don't confuse with púca) and his dwarves are Norse. Norse "elves" are quite different and come in Light, Dark and Murky kinds and the Dark ones may be Dwarves.
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Everybody's elves are really sidhe! (Fae). Not counting the Norse, which as you point out, have all those other variations and I'm not sure they're the Irish/Sidhe/"elves" kind at all.
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You'd have to rate most of the Asgard lot a little dim, especially maybe Thor, given how often they are tricked, especially by Loki.
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And not really nice gods, either. Pretty abysmal. Even for Dark Ages (and earlier) Vikings, you
gotta wonder...
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Odin seems relatively smart and he and Freya seem to have the most magic. The Valkyrie seem to be abducted horse mad maidens as they age if they leave. A boy and his sister was abducted by Thor and a young couple maybe by Freya's brother. There is an imagined sequel to that. Thor is also badly tricked by one of the Jötner (sp) AKA Ice Giants.
It's sad we have so few sources.
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I agree that it is dreadfully sad. Just think of the fun, if we had better! OTOH, some writers might say that having the names and general outlines of each is more freeing, to let them, well,
Thor it. Let's face it, until Marvel lost their minds around the Avengers, Thor was a pretty dreamy hunka-hunka burnin' love. If he'd been the selfish, dirty, brutish, mean oaf he's portrayed to be, at all, in the few legends remaining, I'm pretty sure that the Avengers wouldn't have had the box office that they did. ;-)
Hitch