The Hobbit movie

[sandbender]

The 'start of production video' for the Hobbit movie may be viewed here...

[video=youtube;FfesknLk5uI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqaUk-r8DBk[/video]

Or here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqaUk-r8DBk

Peter Jackson walks you through some familiar looking sets, shows us some dwarf beards and some dwarf combat training.

Enjoy

 

[Scout]

Thanks sandbender, really enjoyed that.


Nathan

 

[Prawnster]

Saw this a few days ago. I just can't wait for this film. My dilemma now is do I keep watching these updates or is it going to spoil it?

 

[sandbender]

"...I just can't wait for this film. My dilemma now is do I keep watching these updates or is it going to spoil it?.."

Me too, but of course I will watch them. Not so happy about the suggestion that the movies will be in 3D, I may have to wait for the DVD.

 

[morch]

I hope it's not in 3D too. Thanks for the link mate

Dave

 

[sandbender]

The first image of the dwarves Dori, Nori, and Ori from The Hobbit have been put on line.

A large jpeg here.

Article here.

 

[sandbender]

The second production video for the Hobbit movie may be viewed here...

[video=youtube;sfPaIdMAso0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPaIdMAso0[/video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfPaIdMAso0

...it features some quite amazing scenery from New Zealand. Enjoy.

 

[outdoorpaddy]

Great link, sandbender. I love Tolkien's works and there are so many of them beyond The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I like the movies too and I plan to go
backpacking in New Zealand someday just to see the incredible landscape

outdoorpaddy

 

[Nagual]

Can't say I have much interest in the film, for me PJ messed up with the LotR films, and I know he's only really making a film based on the Hobbit, due to all the changes to it already.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

I am glad I am not alone, Nagual. The LotR's films could have been brilliant. Why did he decide to spoil them with unnecessary changes?

 

[shogun]

Me too, but of course I will watch them. Not so happy about the suggestion that the movies will be in 3D, I may have to wait for the DVD.

cant wait for this movie to come out..i just seen the nw transformers in 3D and it was excellent..Atb Allan

 

[Tengu]

Anyone who thinks that the LotR films were good should be hung from a cliff by one wrist for fourteen years...

 

[sandbender]

Anyone who thinks that the LotR films were good should be hung from a cliff by one wrist for fourteen years...

Say what you mean Tengu, don't hold back.

I have been reading the books since before the age of 10 and I enjoyed the films, perhaps the first more than the others, if nothing else the films may have encouraged others to read the books and that cannot be a bad thing.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Some of the stuff in the LotR movies were great. other stuff not so

I love the Balrog, he looked excellent but the collapsing stone and run just before was dire, hollywood crap.

McKellan as Gandalf I thought was a good choice but the guy who played Aragorn, totally wrong.

Characterisation of many main parts had been changed - why? Did they think they knew better than the Tolkein himself? Some of it was not just to cut for the film either.....

 

[Nagual]

Changing the dialogue that has been the core element to all Tolkiens works from day one, to something more trashy ala Hollywood was just weird. If you go to youtube, and search for a user called 'pettytyrant101' he has a few re-edits of the films, if you mail him, he may even send you a complete re-edited version of all 3 films, put in roughly the same order as the books, with new effects.

Pettytyrants youtube linky

 

[mountainm]

Anyone who thinks that the LotR films were good should be hung from a cliff by one wrist for fourteen years...

At least they didn't have all those bloomin' awful songs - seriously has anyone read LOTR and read all of the songs?

 

[sandbender]

At least they didn't have all those bloomin' awful songs - seriously has anyone read LOTR and read all of the songs?

yes

Picture of Gloin & Oin...

Picture here.

 

[Tengu]

I quite like JRRTs Poetry.

<Says she who thinks that many poets need to be eaten alive by a wolf...I mean after their apprechiation circle has suffered the same fate>

 

[armie]

I enjoyed the films, perhaps the first more than the others

The Ralph Bakshi cartoon?

At least they didn't have all those bloomin' awful songs - seriously has anyone read LOTR and read all of the songs?

Yes
There's lots of foreshadowing and background exposition in those songs!

 

[mountainm]

Yes
There's lots of foreshadowing and background exposition in those songs!

Well good for you! I'm usually a completist but I couldn't abide them. Tom bombardill was bad enough....