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I definitely agree with you on Sauron/Mairon being one of my favorite characters in the legendarium. I've been working for years to compile a good case for why he's at the very least a tragic character. I also feel like Olórin, at the very least, should have known Mairon pretty well. The UT make...

That would be my vote. Go with someone who can pull of Melkor' glory, and then show the corruption setting in.

While I think Del Toro would work great as Morgoth, I'm not so sure he could visually pull off Melkor. We need an actor that can play the whole spectrum with Melkor...unless we want to change actors.

Not to drag this thread away from Mairon...but Shelby, I might have found a use for Eddie Redmayne...As Aiwendil (aka Radagast) (You should be used to this by now. Not my art!)

Shelby-- Your picture isn't showing up, sadly, so I can't tell you if that's the light hair I was thinking of. I do have Manwë and Melkor as very similar to each other, with Melkor being the paler: light blond hair, ice-blue eyes. Then Manwë with more golden hair, and sapphire eyes (he's tied...

I've been writing fanfic for over four years now, so if you want someone to bounce ideas off of, I'd be glad to help! I also own or have convenient access to most of the canon (and HoMe if you don't consider that canon...). I'm also fairly good with elvish plurals and common words. :)

I would say it depends on whether or not we can use any actors, past and present. If we can use past actors, I would say go for it! But since we couldn't do them all if we make it just present people (RIP Christopher Lee) then I would say go with a whole new cast.

Shelby-- I definitely think if we go with a red-haired Mairon he needs freckles. ;) I see your point with Melkor--you don't want two black-haired bad guys! But you see, my version of Melkor has pale-blond hair. (definitely influenced by this! Still not my art!) So then to counter-point...

Personally, I feel like we need to keep the actors/design the same for all the Ainur, simply to avoid viewer confusion. But I definitely agree with Shelby that Mairon/Sauron needs to have a very 'innocent' look. After all, that's really what he plays on before the Third Age. I don't have a...

Here's an idea for the language: use it to show the relative ages between cultures. For instance, if you have the Valar and the Eldar talking together, go with more modern (but not too modern ;) language, where as the Valar are speaking far more archaically. Then again with the Elves/men. I...

Why don't we use the frame that Tolkien sort of put into place? The Silmarillion is supposedly written/translated by Bilbo in his retirement in Rivendell. So you can have Bilbo researching all of this in the frame, and bring in other characters like Elrond, Aragorn, ect. as appropriate. All...

I'm going to go against the flow here and suggest a fully anthropomorphic representation of the Ainulindalë. I feel like if we did a fantasia type depiction, you'd confuse people who have no idea what's going on. The Ainulindalë is *already* an incredibly confusing text for a lot of people, so...