Friends, this is just wrong. Why must Mattel corrupt two of my favorite characters from literature with the unrelenting blandness that is Barbie and Ken?
Look at their soulless eyes. If they were going to make dolls, couldn’t they have made them look like the actors, with maybe a little bit of expression on their faces, and left Barbie and Ken right the fuck out of it?
Bleah.
Ugh. Tolkien must be rolling over in his grave. Arwen looks exactly like Barbie, except with dark hair instead of blonde, and Aragorn is practically Ken with long hair and a beard.
Actually, I like them. I intend to buy them when I get a chance.
My emphasis.
I don’t get it. You are worried about your two favourite characters from literature being corrupted. As a consequence you say that if dolls are going to be made, you want them to look like the actors from (I assume) that recent Peter Jackson movie trilogy that had a plot which vaguely resembled a work of literature of the same name.
To prevent corruption of the work of literature, you want the dolls to resemble the actors who partook in a corruption of the work of literature.
You mean there was a book…? Did Walt Disney write it?
I care about this precisely enough to take the time to post about how little I care about this.
I forget, John. Actually I think maybe the movie came out and then the script was turned into a book by a pretentious hack Hollywood ghost writer with a weird name.
I actually think, that out of all the models of Ken ever released, this is the one were he actually does look a little bit macho! 
same except less so
IT’S THE SWORD!!!
Let me amend that, then, to two of my favorite characters, period. I can think of numerous others I’d hate to see turned into Barbie dolls. Jane Eyre and Rochester, for example. Or Rick and Ilsa. Or Norma Desmond. Not that I have a major thing against Barbie dolls; I played with them when I was a kid, and my daughter enjoys them now. But I wish Barbie would keep her Barbie blandness confined to the Barbie dream house. I’d like to see Arwen and Aragorn dolls made by a skilled artisan. Barbie as Arwen looks entirely to vapid to be 2,000 and some odd years old.
Ken/Aragorn looks like the Magic Shaving Ken (or whatever it was called) I had as a child, minus the brown leisure suit with the butterfly collar. You used a brown marker to scribble the stubble on his face and a plastic “razor” tipped with a sponge to “shave” it off. Then he could go play tennis.
And now, thanks to GIGObuster, I have a vision in my head of Ken/Aragorn doing John Travolta moves and singing, “Macho, macho man! I want to be - a macho man!”
Now this is an artist who knows how to dress up barbies…
http://www.dolls-n-daggers.com/Dolls/OOAKgallery.html
She even has a Galadriel, though I like the Medievals a lot better.
I guess I don’t see the big deal.
Barbie’s already been Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Supergirl, and Batgirl, so I don’t really mind that she’s Arwen (and a pretty good looking one at that, I think). I don’t think the Ken looks that bad either. It’s certainly a lot better than most of Toy Biz’s crappy Aragorns.
Definitely no worse than the Mulder and Scully Barbies.
Oooh, the Galadriel’s nice, but the real prize is the Dark Lily (from the move Legend). Very cool.
Certainly her work is far better than the Mattel travesties.
While also managing to be the most pansy Aragorn ever conceived.
Arwen doesn’t look that bad. I didn’t much like Liv Tyler as Arwen (heretic, I know), and I guess Aragorn has a straight nose, at least, which is something, but…
Oh, and kind of a doofy looking sword, too.
That’s an ironic statement considering you’re wanting the dolls to be modeled after Liv Tyler don’t you think?
You mean, as opposed to this. 
CTRL+F "VAPID"
It’s already been said.
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