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Liv Tyler	'Liv Ty;er an actress who has been described as 'cool' and beguiling' with 'dazzling eyes' and 'flawless porcelain skin' , is cast as the Lady Arwen, the beautiful daughter of Elrond, the Lord of Rivendell. Known amoung her people as 'Evenstar', it is Arwen's deep love for Aragorn that sustains the herioic warrior through the desperate struggles of the war of the Ring and which will bring her, at last, to make a terrible choice: whether to pass into the Undying Lands of the west with her father and the other Elven Folk, or to remain with Aragorn in Middle earth where she would become a mortal kind and eventually die. It is fitting that the role of Arwen should go to an actress now ranked amongst the leading beauties of comteporary cinema. Making her debut in Bruce Bereford's Silent Fall, Liv Tyler played leading roles in films such as Empire Records and Heavy, before recieving critical attention, in 1996, for her performance in stealing Beauty from the Italian director, Bernardo Bertolucci, a film that had cinema commentators comparing her with the young Elizabeth Taylor to the extent of briefly re-naming her 'Liv Taylor' After a successful appearance in Tom Hank's directorial debut, That Thing You Do!, Tyler co-starred with Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in Amegeddon, a film that won her roles in Robert Altman's Cookies Fortune, in the period romance-romp Plunkett and Maclean and opposite Ralph Fiennes in the film of Alexander Pushkin's Onegin. She recently appeared in One Night at Mr. Cool's opposite Matt Dillon and was reunited with Robert Altman when she starred in the critically acclaimed Mr.T and the Women with Richard Gere. Tyler is very conscious of starring in a film dominated by male characters: 'I see it as an honour to be one of few women in the picture and to bring the feminine touch to the story.' Arwen, however, is an unconventional woman and her love-affair with aragorn is set against the threatening backdrop of war. 'So she has to be patient and supportive and let him go off and do the things that he has to do. But he is impatient, too. When you're in love, you want to spend all your time with that person, and she inds it difficult that they can't be together.' Born in New York and raised in Portland, Maine, Prior to returning to Manhatten, Liv Tyler was required to adopt an english accent for the role of Arwen. She also had to learn to speak elvish and move as an elven Maiden might: ' I had to carry myself in a certain way and be aware of my breathing. It was a challenge for me as an American speaking in a Britsh accent, but as an elf I had to be so erect and centred and to move effortlessly and gracefully.'

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