Marmoon
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Oct 12 2024, 5:44am
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So many years later, I remain in awe of the effort and skill invested into every detail in the films. At first I wondered whether this would be the calendar of young or old Bilbo, since I'm not sure where in the film it appears, if at all. But the inclusion of Drogo’s birthday and the impending wedding of Prisca and Wilibald put this squarely in the young Bilbo era.
It looks like the referenced image was cropped from a slightly larger photo, though unclear if it’s the original. No apparent difference in image quality.
https://themovieblog.com/...ds/2012/11/hx5la.jpg
There’s no discernible point of reference in the photo to confirm if it’s hanging by the writing desk, as purported. Anyone know if this prop actually appears in the film, and, if so, the exact timestamp? The earliest upload of this photo online I found was November 2012 - right around the time of the Wellington premiere, some weeks before the global release. If not the film itself, could it have been taken from some promotional or behind-the-scenes material? Or maybe someone in the art department shared it independently?
I appreciate that the artist / prop maker (Daniel Reeve?) resisted the urge to include a note about Gandalf’s unexpected arrival and proposition (April 25) and his threat to return to Bag-end (April 26). Not only because the movie left Gandalf’s return plans vague, though I think a minor continuity error could’ve been excused for a background prop that few would ever bother to analyze; but rather because Gandalf’s absence from the calendar is consistent with the text:
“[Bilbo] did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this: Gandalf Tea Wednesday. Yesterday he had been too flustered to do anything of the kind.”
The Hobbit, “An Unexpected Party”
One last note - Assuming the film's opening scenes took place on/around April 25-26 (though there's no evidence of any attempt to maintain the established timeline of events, but just for the sake of speculation), then Bilbo's plans were likely interrupted. In the film, we only saw him visit the market, fearful of bumping into Gandalf again, before the dwarves' arrival that evening and his spontaneous departure in the company of Thorin Oakenshield the next morning. Hopefully Bilbo's input was not missed at the erosion meeting in Michel Delving!
(This post was edited by Marmoon on Oct 12 2024, 5:47am)
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