The Hobbit movie news: An Unexpected Journey

[Desraelda]

I have deliberately stayed out of this thread because I knew I couldn't stand the wait. But yesterday, I was at the movies and they showed the trailer. I couldn't believe how emotional I got over it.

The music is haunting. And seeing the old Bilbo and Frodo again, really brought tears to my eyes. Not to mention Galadriel and Gandalf.

Now, I can't wait.

[StarsAndShadows]

Originally Posted by Desraelda

I have deliberately stayed out of this thread because I knew I couldn't stand the wait. But yesterday, I was at the movies and they showed the trailer. I couldn't believe how emotional I got over it.

The music is haunting. And seeing the old Bilbo and Frodo again, really brought tears to my eyes. Not to mention Galadriel and Gandalf.

Now, I can't wait.

Oh my, now you have me wanting to see it too!

I wasn't too enthusiastic at first - I didn't like The Hobbit (the book) as well as I liked the LotR trilogy. LotR I've read and reread several times. When I tried to reread The Hobbit, it bored me. [Do we have a "bored" or "yawn" smilie in here?]

And though I found The Fellowship of the Ring movie very well done, true to the book, with any change made well justified, I was unhappy with some changes that Peter Jackson made in the other two movies. So I'm wary of what he'll do with The Hobbit. Now Desraelda has my interest piqued.

[Desraelda]

Originally Posted by StarsAndShadows

Oh my, now you have me wanting to see it too!

I wasn't too enthusiastic at first - I didn't like The Hobbit (the book) as well as I liked the LotR trilogy. LotR I've read and reread several times. When I tried to reread The Hobbit, it bored me. [Do we have a "bored" or "yawn" smilie in here?]

And though I found The Fellowship of the Ring movie very well done, true to the book, with any change made well justified, I was unhappy with some changes that Peter Jackson made in the other two movies. So I'm wary of what he'll do with The Hobbit. Now Desraelda has my interest piqued.

I actually liked The Hobbit a lot. Which means that I won't be reading it again before I see the movie. I'll just accept the movie for what it is.

I especially like that Martin Freeman is young Bilbo and at least we'll hear Benedict Cumberbatch's distinctive voice.

[freelantzer]

Originally Posted by Desraelda

I actually liked The Hobbit a lot. Which means that I won't be reading it again before I see the movie. I'll just accept the movie for what it is.

I especially like that Martin Freeman is young Bilbo and at least we'll hear Benedict Cumberbatch's distinctive voice.

Good call. I always enjoy the movie much more if I do not reread right before seeing it. I used to always reread, but one time I ran out of time before seeing the movie. Enjoyed it. This has become my policy now.

[Lord Godric]

Originally Posted by Desraelda

I especially like that Martin Freeman is young Bilbo and at least we'll hear Benedict Cumberbatch's distinctive voice.

Oh goodness, I didn't even know that Cumberbatch was doing the voice work for Smaug. Great, now I'm going to be thinking that the Bilbo/Smaug scenes are stuff from Sherlock. That should be interesting.

[Aiwendil]

Radagast the Brown has finally been revealed in an image from an upcoming calendar. Spoiler warning: click here.

A list of character descriptions from a line of figurines has also been released. Be warned of many spoilers, and click here.

[Lord Godric]

According to sources, the three movies will be split as "An Unexpected Journey" (December 14, 2012), "The Desolation of Smaug" (December 13, 2013) and "There and Back Again" (July 18, 2014).

Even though I think splitting the book into three movies was a horrible decision, I'm excited to see how Martin Freeman is as Bilbo.

[Siriusandme]

The new trailer is available.... Why is december so far away...

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thehobbit/

[ginger1]

That's just made my day

[Pearl_Took]

Glorious.

Freeman and Armitage are going to rock. And how lovely to see McKellan as Gandalf the Grey again!

And I love how Galadriel looks younger.

Such gorgeous cinematography ... makes me wish the LotR Trilogy was coming after, actually. Ah, well.

Check out the alternative endings!

http://www.thehobbit.com/share/?media=gollum

[Wimsey]

Happy Hobbit day to all! It's like Christmas doubled, or maybe squared....

The trailers look cool, of course, I still do not think that it was necessary to divide this into two films, never mind three: and I am worried about how audiences will respond to this.

That being said, the Tolkien geek in me is going to love every second of this. Actually fleshing out the assault on Dol Guldor will be, like, totally awesome, dude.... (I don't know if I actually spoke like that when I was 14, but that was over 2/3rds of my life ago now....)

[Goddess_Clio]

This has to be the best thing EVER!!

I cannot repeat enough how strongly I believe that Air New Zealand is the best airline on the planet.


An Unexpected Briefing

[HPFanNZ]

Is anybody from COS or Mugglenet coming to the world premiere here in Wellington, NZ?
I know Hypable will be part of the press scrum at the red carpet, a shame LeakyNews hasn't confirmed anything yet when the event is only 2 weeks away from today(Wednesday 14th November NZDT).

[RikuStark]

Originally Posted by HPFanNZ

Is anybody from COS or Mugglenet coming to the world premiere here in Wellington, NZ?
I know Hypable will be part of the press scrum at the red carpet, a shame LeakyNews hasn't confirmed anything yet when the event is only 2 weeks away from today(Wednesday 14th November NZDT).

I wish!

The full soundtrack for The Hobbit is out and available to listen too: http://www.hypable.com/2012/11/13/ho...sten-download/

[Siriusandme]

Hobbit trouble???

http://www.peta.org/features/the-hob...m_medium=promo


And Peter's reply:

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012...b_source=pubv1

I don't know about this. As fas as I know the studio admitted two horses died needlessly and they spend a lot of money improving conditions for all animals involved. I also understood the people who made these accusations were fired for not treating the animals properly. And the fact that PETA (who I distrust on principle) waited until now to make these claims seems a bit fishy...

[Wab]

This will probably be more of a problem.

TVNZ The estate of author JRR Tolkien is suing the producers of The Hobbit alleging that The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit merchandising infringes copyright. The £50m ($98 million NZD) lawsuit filed by Tolkien estate trustees and publisher HarperCollins against Warner Bros, its subsidiary New Line Cinema and Saul Zaentz Comapny's Middle-earth Enterprises was filed in Los Angeles yesterday... Tolkien estate sues Hobbit producers

[Aiwendil]

Production Video #9 is now online! Click here.

[RemusLupinFan]

Originally Posted by Wimsey

The trailers look cool, of course, I still do not think that it was necessary to divide this into two films, never mind three: and I am worried about how audiences will respond to this.

This has got me curious as well. I haven't been following movie news precisely, so I'm not sure if they've said roughly what the content of each film will be (as in, how far in the journey each film covers). I have to wonder how they're going to incorporate the Unfinished Tales and The Silmarillion material. I would hope it's done in such a way so as to not go too far off of the Hobbit storyline.

[Tenshi]

Sooo just came back from watching it. It was pretty good. I also thought that 2-3 movies is too much, but these three hours went by so fast. That wasn't an issue at all.
I wish I could've seen it in a modern cinema in 3D with all the 7 zillion frames a second.

There were a scene I don't remember reading in the book:

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the meeting of Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel and Saruman when they discussed the sword and the Witch king of Angmar.

And they walked and walked and walked... not as much as they did in LotR which was good.
But sometimes the change of scenery was so abrupt. I don't know.

I thought Thorin was superb. They portrait him very convincing as the leader. When Thorin

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hugged Bilbo in the end. That drove tears into my eyes.

[Sorafune]

I loved the movie and it didn't feel like it was three hours long at all. I watched the HFR 3D version and the movie looked so good, never have I've seen a movie look this clear before. The 3D was great and I have no words to describe how much I loved the music.