BOWIE

Why didn't disappointing Peter Jackson cast David Bowie as Elrond in the Rings films?

Why didn't he have Warszawa, from Low, featured as the High Elf Anthem? Listen to it, Bowie's singing elf. It's melancholy in a weird way that could pass for elf-sad. We (humans) wouldn't quite get elf-sad; who does alien emotions better than Bowie?

Out of reverence Jackson took no risks and made boring movies (except for the Shire parts during the first one, that worked).

Also, Zeppelin's In My Time of Dying should've been used during battle scenes.

That meaty grandiose rock song would've added a little humor, deflation, but also a very direct fist-pumping charge that would work instead of Jerry Goldsmith or whoever did the same old tired orchestral b-crap.

Zeppelin referenced the books heavily, Bowie has talked about creating a new language in Warszawa. There were great artists out there with ready-made stuff you could have plugged in to the project; instead watching Rings I got that tired feeling of witnessing imaginative poverty

Could've been a cathartic connecting (kung-fu flying, literally: the action should have been more kinetic, informed by Woo; and figuratively- the ideas should've been bouncing off of
all the right influences)

Expand it into the goosebump arena of the dreams I had while reading the book, soaring associations with any other piece of art I'd absorbed that linked well with Rings.