"I didn't like Galadriel. She should have been so beautiful that it hurt to look at her."

That's the problem with having humans play non-human characters... they are hamstrung by being human... All the elves look like bad 80's dye jobs... with blond blond hair and dark eyebrows... But it could have bene a LOT worse I guess...

And well as far as Cate B goes, I can take her or leave her... As Galadriel, I thought she just looked goofy... something about what the ear prostetics, combined withthe elf-wig, did to the shape of her head...

Like C.S. Lewis, I've kinda always hated JRRs elvs, so really, what PJ did with them on the big screen, I really didn't care about one way or the other... Electric Gladariel from Fellowship was pretty goofy... but as with that, the wizard duel, Gollum jumping on Invisible Frodo, and a few other scenes I can think of... they are gonna look pretty hokey no matter how they were visualised... I think PJ did, for the most part, the absolute best he could have with such scenes...

Too bad his cave troll (in Moria) looked as bad as the Centaur in the first Harry Potter movie...