I may be wrong, but I recall her physical height being referred to constantly in the books.
HyogaRott Send a noteboard - 21/06/2019 04:35:40 PM
Her ability to command respect and impose her will by pure force of personality alone in spite of being physically smaller and weaker than everyone around her was, to me, one of her defining characteristics. It was particularly important in the maturation of Nyneave.
She was small in stature, but large in power, and then lost most of her channeling ability so that the ONLY thing she had left was that aura of command. I don't think the character can be deconstructed and brought so completely down if the actress is almost six feet tall... There are lots of major roles she could fill, I just don't think they picked the right one.
Rosamund Pike is playing Moiraine.
- 20/06/2019 11:16:24 PM
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More than a bit tall
- 21/06/2019 03:22:57 AM
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5'2" per the WoT Companion. *NM*
- 21/06/2019 11:33:40 AM
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For what it's worth, Erica Tazel, who played Rachel Brooks on Justified and Emilia Clarke, are 5'2"
- 22/06/2019 12:49:49 PM
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Moiraine isn't actually "middle aged" though. She is all of 40-ish out of a 700-ish lifespan.
- 24/06/2019 02:59:59 PM
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700-ish is without the binder effects of the oath rod.
- 24/06/2019 03:18:36 PM
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The binders cause them to gray and die prematurely. They don’t actually make them AGE any faster.
- 25/06/2019 08:31:18 PM
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Is her height a particularly important trait? *NM*
- 21/06/2019 12:31:58 PM
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Only if it signifies that the show will be cast with no consideration for descriptions. *NM*
- 21/06/2019 01:57:09 PM
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So you were furious when Hugh Jackman was cast as Wolverine? 
- 21/06/2019 06:33:16 PM
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- 21/06/2019 06:33:16 PM
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No but I hated Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher
- 21/06/2019 10:13:18 PM
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Who?
- 21/06/2019 11:39:47 PM
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Re: Who?
- 22/06/2019 12:23:45 PM
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I just realized Rosamund Pike was the female lead in Reacher with Tom Cruise. How funny. *NM*
- 23/06/2019 01:37:51 AM
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I may be wrong, but I recall her physical height being referred to constantly in the books.
- 21/06/2019 04:35:40 PM
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Have you read New Spring?
- 21/06/2019 06:34:39 PM
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- 21/06/2019 06:34:39 PM
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But her thoughts are never vocalized on New Spring...
- 21/06/2019 07:47:42 PM
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That seems like an odd argument.
- 21/06/2019 09:13:51 PM
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Height's relative, and can be manipulated on screen, if needed...
- 21/06/2019 09:46:20 PM
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I find it ineteresting that they are calling her role the lead role
- 24/06/2019 02:41:40 PM
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Remove the PoV structure of the books, and she is the lead in Eye of the World. *NM*
- 24/06/2019 05:08:44 PM
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