Altaira
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Jun 18 2008, 4:23pm
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Yay! An opportunity to point you to the new Hobbit Movie FAQ
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First of all, welcome, Cetautomatix! (My husband loves the Asterix books and movies, so I'm a big fan too and love your nick  ).
Anyway, as you might imagine, this isn't the first time someone has brought up those, or similar, quotes by Del Toro here at TORn, and it was also a question Del Toro answered in the recent "Unexpected Party" chat with him and PJ. I recommend you read through his comments (It's a long answer about 3/4 of the way down the transcript of the chat). Hopefully they'll calm your fears. We'd like to hear more either way.
From the Hobbit Movie FAQ (also see my post about unveiling it a few threads down the board):
2.3. Does GDT even know/like/understand Tolkien and Fantasy?
Guillermo read The Hobbit when he was 11 years old and loved it. However, he couldn’t make it through the Lord of the Rings at that time (not the first 11 year-old to have that happen): “I purchased it [The Hobbit] at age 11 and it struck a chord with me but, back then, I failed to connect with the Trilogy, and the Silmarillion (which now I find delectable) eluded me. I found them –unlike the HOBBIT- to be “too dense” for my young mind”. Recently though, he has been enthusiastically ‘devouring’ the trilogy and other Tolkien books and loves them too.
As for fantasy: “I dedicated the last 6 years of my career (between PL and HBII) to create Fantastical worlds inhabited by Fairies, Fauns, Ogres, Trolls, Elves, etc…In that respect- I guess I am a Fantasy guy when the particular world appeals to me… I do the tales I love (regardless of what shelf Barnes & Noble classifies the book under) and I love the HOBBIT. I love it enough to give it half a decade of my life and move half a world away to do it.”
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(This post was edited by Altaira on Jun 18 2008, 4:25pm)
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