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    Posted: April 16 2011 at 18:33


Any thoughts about this project? 



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Excited.  But it's been years since I read the Hobbit, I really should revisit the whole series...
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Originally posted by NecronCommander NecronCommander wrote:

Excited.  But it's been years since I read the Hobbit, I really should revisit the whole series...

Me too, I plan on re-reading it this summer. One of my favorite books.
    
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Is it my imagination, or is Peter Jackson beginning to look like one of Tolkien's dwarves?
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I've read The Hobbit twice.

I doubt I'll watch the film though.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Is it my imagination, or is Peter Jackson beginning to look like one of Tolkien's dwarves?


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Hope they don't overhype it.
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Originally posted by June June wrote:

Hope they don't overhype it.

Me too... though I believe it'll be good.
    
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I'm very hyped. My father was a Tolkien fanatic so I grew up with that mythology as much as any other as my backdrop. He let me watch the scary as crap cartoon movie when I was way too young for it.
 
In any case, I was mostly quite satisfied with Jackson's renditions and look forward to The Hobbit. The visual rendering of Smaug is of course what I'm anticipating most. Spiders are guaranteed to be scary...better not omit Beorn.
 
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Is it my imagination, or is Peter Jackson beginning to look like one of Tolkien's dwarves?
 
"you become what you eat" is a popular saying, not that Peter eats dwarfs,  but he have probaby ingulfed himself wigh dwars and starts to become one, along the time he directs them, the Hobbit is mostly about dwarfs anyway 11 of them,
 
my only concern  is Smaug, they have to doo a awesome Smaug, a Smaug that scare the sh*t out of everyone, Smaug must be made into humans greatest fear, a dragon is humans greatest fear becouse they are smarter then uss, also becouse dragons are the imagined version of humans greatest fear, like Vampires are human only distorded and Elfs/elves are what humans aspire to be like,  Vampires and Elves are omnipotent to eachother, one is living by the light the other by darkness, the both are immoral, while one is cursed to eat blood, (I don't buy that alergic to garlic, stakes and silver myths, theyr only weakness is that they become weakned in sunlight, they doo not die, but they become more human, while at night and under full moon, they are tenfolds the strenght of a human), but elves are stronger with sunlight and with the closness to nature,
 
Dragons are what we humans least wants to come a cross, an other being the genie is probably the omnipotent, to the dragon in that sence that  you can controll a genie/ginn(/fIitt, you can hardly control a dragon


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Originally posted by June June wrote:

Hope they don't overhype it.


It will be.

It will also likely have some bits cut out, or a different ending or an insertion of a random character.

Ah, retconning is fun.

Although maybe for once he'll stick to the book.  And I want to see Tom Bombadil, even if he is annoying.
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I have full confidence that this will be fantastic. Being a Lord of the Rings geek, I thought that the film adaption of the trilogy couldn't have been executed any better than it was, and I'm certainly ready for more
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]What do we need a movie for if we have this:

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In the video snippet, Jackson clearly plans to take a few liberties with the book. I hope they're minor. Showing Narsil is one little visual detail, but I'm not big on new characters.
 
Tom Bombadil was a LOTR omission. Beorn was omitted from the Hobbit cartoon from back in the day.
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Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

 
Tom Bombadil was a LOTR omission.


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I'm so very looking forward to it. It's a much more classic tale, much more to the point.The challenge, of course, will be making us care about each dwarf at least kind of equally, and making the battle between the humans and Smaug not so sudden. He'll probably take liberties with character development on the human side, which is ok. It was really underdeveloped in the book.
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I have only one  cast wish, I want Michael Clarke Duncan as Beorn, I CAN NOT SEE ANY OTHER HUMANS WHO COULD DO THAT ROLE AS GOOD AS DUNCAN, (read this Jackson).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
the only one who both can act and fit the size, voice, and weapon handeling


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The Cast So Far

Bilbo Baggins - Martin Freeman
Gandalf - Sir Ian McKellen
Gollum - Andy Serkis
Galadriel - Cate Blanchett
Saruman - Sir Cristopher Lee
Frodo Baggins - Elijah Wood
Legolas - Orlando Bloom
Thorin - Richard Armitage
Kili - Aidan Turner
Fili - Rob Kazinsky
Dwalin - Graham McTavish
Oin - John Callen
Bombur - Steven Hunter
Dori - Mark Hadlow
Gloin - Peter Hambleton
Bofur - James Nesbitt
Ori - Adam Brown
Beorn - Mikael Persbrandt
Radagast -Sylvester McCoy
Lord Balin - Ken Stott
Drogo Baggins - Ryan Cage
Nori - Jed Brophy
Bifur - William Kircher
Thror - Jeffrey Thomas (TBC)
Thrain - Mike Mizrahi (TBC)
Lindir - Bret McKenzie

For you other Tolkien fans - there is alot that can be inferred just from this.
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Ken Stott as Balin? 

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