Into the Wardrobe

Inspired by the reflections on a Bond LOTR, I thought that I'd suggest a Film Noir approach.

I'll start off with a few casting suggestions...

Frodo - Humphrey Bogart
Galadriel - Lauren Bacall
Sauruman - Sydney Greenstreet
Wormtongue - Peter Lorre

But maybe Bogart and Bacall should be Aragorn and Arwen?

Other suggestions? Dialogue ideas?...

A fully acceptable variant of this idea would be a related but purely literary approach: the saga of Middle-earth as Raymond Chandler would have told it.

Here's a few pictures that I edited for Filme Noir LotR! Not really great work perhaps, but it gets the message across.

No, I wouldn't cast Bogey as Baggins: Bogey's Aragorn. Jimmy Stewart is Faramir (or Eomer), Lugosi as Grima...