[Movie] The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

It makes sense Beorn can transform into a bear, seeing as in most Scandinavian langauges, 'Bjørn' means 'bear.' It's crazy how proficient Tolkien was in languages. The man knew:

Latin
French
German
Middle English
Old English
Old Norse
Finnish
Gothic
Med. Welsh
Italian
Greek
Spanish
Dutch
Russian
Swedish
Lithuanian

Not to mention a couple others, and he still invented at least two other languages (Qenya and Sindarin?).

I'm so excited for this movie, it's been excruciating waiting for the New Zealanders to quit striking. If you've been following news on the Hobbit, it's pretty funny listening to the barbs Jackson and some Australian Union woman were throwing at each other.

I think at one point this b**** called Jackson a, 'spoilt, little brat.'

Best news I've heard in a while if they've started filming, things looked like they were at a stalemate.

The more I read about it, the more it sounds like LotR fanservice than a movie based on The Hobbit. How disappointing.

More or less my feelings towards the upcoming movies:

"Purr~"

I don't get why Legolas is in here, nor Frodo.

Still, all good news. Loved the LOTR trilogy, both movies and books i might add. Will have to read The Hobbit to grasp the movie(s) when it comes out.......

Next year!!! for Part 1

Originally Posted by ERROR372

I will take that as you aren't denying the filming has started (because it has). Just because there is a set date for when the two come out, doesn't mean they can't be done early. PJ is an amazing director (of which he's now the director of the Hobbit, thank God!), and finished all three lotr movies in just 3 years. That's an amazing feat for those movies. If he can do that, he could potentially finish the hobbit early. Which, as long as it's epic, is fine by me =D

Oh, and if you go to imdb.com (Internet Movie Database), you'll see the two parts have all the actors (and what parts they will play) already listed. One thing that surprises me is that Hugo Weaving (Elrond), and the list of the Elrond character himself, is not noted until Part II. What does this mean? Does this mean they don't even get to Rivendell in the first movie? That's nearly at the very beginning of the Hobbit. I'm really curious.

The intention was actually to show Delnaja how close the movies actually were, although now I see I put them in the wrong order, which led to the confusion. Sorry about that.

That image alone for some reason makes me uber excited.

Chip the glasses! Crack the plates! That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

Can't wait to see how that scene turns out.

I'm not really an active fan of the Hobbit, but I would still rage hard if Frodo has anything to do with the movie besides narrating it.

Frodo:
He's apparently to be used for a framing of the narrative, and that's fine by me. Since he wasn't alive during the happenings in "the Hobbit", it's not like he sudenly will pop up in the house of Beorn. I picture him sitting in Bag End, holding the book he and Bilbo wrote. Either by the fire in the evening, or by a window during daytime. It can be presented as a story, kind of like a grandparent telling a fairy tale. That was pretty much how the Hobbit was made in the first place.

Legolas:
He's the son of the king in Mirkwood. I see it as reasonable for him to have a small cameo there.

General:
It makes sense to tie them a bit to the Lord of the Rings movies. Didn't Peter Jackson state that he wanted all the movies to be viewed as a whole, including the Hobbit? I believe they said at some previous point that they wanted to incorporate some of the information from the appendix in the Lord of the Rings about what happened inbewten the stories as well. Peter Jackson has made three excellent movies out of the Lord of the Rings. I have faith in him for doing the same with the Hobbit.

I don't know how this will go. I really like Peter Jackson, but I feel this is going in a weird direction. Didn't it get cancelled and started on all th time ? And changing producer or director? It'll probably be good, but not better than the first three.

It didn't get cancelled ever. It was put on hold twice. The first time due to New Zealand having issues, and then the second for Guillermo del Toro for being a dick and abandoning the project. JP should have been director in the first place, and not Toro.

Originally Posted by Moriquendi

Frodo:
He's apparently to be used for a framing of the narrative, and that's fine by me. Since he wasn't alive during the happenings in "the Hobbit", it's not like he sudenly will pop up in the house of Beorn. I picture him sitting in Bag End, holding the book he and Bilbo wrote. Either by the fire in the evening, or by a window during daytime. It can be presented as a story, kind of like a grandparent telling a fairy tale. That was pretty much how the Hobbit was made in the first place.

Didn't Bilbo finish his book by the very end of the 3rd movie right before going on the boats to the grey haven? Wouldn't that mean they'll be reading the book from there?

Originally Posted by Bacon

Didn't Bilbo finish his book by the very end of the 3rd movie right before going on the boats to the grey haven? Wouldn't that mean they'll be reading the book from there?

No, I don't think so. I believe that was Frodo finishing "the Lord of the Rings" and passed it on to Sam. Didn't Bilbo show his finished work to Frodo (illustrated and all) in Rivendell at some point?

Bilbo wrote "There and Back Again" and then Frodo added his own story to that at the end of Lord of hte Rings. I think that's how it worked out.

I always preferred The Hobbit over LotR as a book. I would have preferred to see the Del Toro version, but oh well.

Hate to bring it, but there is some bad news... Peter Jackson recently had to make a trip to the hospital (dunno why), and this could cause some delays to filming. The crew was supposed to spend quite a bit of time on set in hobbiton to film, but now that PJ is in the hospital, the "council" has given the crew to the end of the month to film everything, and then they have to leave. IF they want anymore time there, they will have to convince council to give it to them.

=(

Source: Possible Hobbit Delay

Twas a perforated ulcer.

Well, it says only a "slight delay" so it probably won't be too bad..

Originally Posted by Moriquendi

Frodo:
He's apparently to be used for a framing of the narrative, and that's fine by me. Since he wasn't alive during the happenings in "the Hobbit", it's not like he sudenly will pop up in the house of Beorn. I picture him sitting in Bag End, holding the book he and Bilbo wrote. Either by the fire in the evening, or by a window during daytime. It can be presented as a story, kind of like a grandparent telling a fairy tale. That was pretty much how the Hobbit was made in the first place.

I don't want Frodo in this movie at all. They could pull it off without him. Pisses me off.

Legolas:
He's the son of the king in Mirkwood. I see it as reasonable for him to have a small cameo there.

Pure fan service, seeing as how you never knew Legolas existed until reading The Fellowship of the Ring.

General:
It makes sense to tie them a bit to the Lord of the Rings movies. Didn't Peter Jackson state that he wanted all the movies to be viewed as a whole, including the Hobbit? I believe they said at some previous point that they wanted to incorporate some of the information from the appendix in the Lord of the Rings about what happened inbewten the stories as well. Peter Jackson has made three excellent movies out of the Lord of the Rings. I have faith in him for doing the same with the Hobbit.

I hate this idea. There's no need to tie the movies together further. The Hobbit has Bilbo, Gandalf, and Elrond. That's more than enough.

^ Lol, sounds like this guy ought to direct the movie himself.

Originally Posted by Blizzaga Lantean

Pure fan service, seeing as how you never knew Legolas existed until reading The Fellowship of the Ring.

Isn't fan service supposed to be a good thing? I'm sure Peter Jackson has people like you in mind. Why, in fact, Peter Jackson is like you. A Hobbit fan, that is. That said, it is still up to him to make the choices that will make this movie as good as it can be. Let me ask you, Blizz, what if the cameos meant Merry or Pippin?

Originally Posted by CWP

Isn't fan service supposed to be a good thing?

Not if it's directed more towards The Lord of the Rings instead of The Hobbit. You didn't see Luke Skywalker narrating the tragedy of Anakin's fall to the Dark Side in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, did you?

I don't know. It just feels like they're riding off of the success of The Lord of the Rings in order to make The Hobbit successful instead of treating The Hobbit as its own story. I hope I'm wrong, but this greatly worries me.

I'm sure Peter Jackson has people like you in mind. Why, in fact, Peter Jackson is like you.

I sure hope so, because it's sounding more and more to be a Lord of the Rings sellout.

Let me ask you, Blizz, what if the cameos meant Merry or Pippin?

No. They weren't in The Hobbit. I don't want another ****ing Lord of the Rings movie. I want The Hobbit!