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Mad Hatter of Middle-Earth
Lorien


Dec 21 2011, 12:36pm

Post #126 of 209 (1439 views)
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Stunning, awesome, amazing, perfect [In reply to] Can't Post

I almost passed out after my first view of the trailer. Fifteen views later: Everything I expected and more was in the trailer. So wonderful to see Gandalf and Galadriel again. I really liked the song sung by the dwarves. Great job Peter Jackson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All you have to decide is what to do with the time that has been given to you...


dwarf_girl
The Shire


Dec 21 2011, 12:43pm

Post #127 of 209 (1486 views)
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Why not? [In reply to] Can't Post

Gandalf deservs some love!
Laugh


dwarf_girl
The Shire


Dec 21 2011, 12:48pm

Post #128 of 209 (1417 views)
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I agree: Thrain [In reply to] Can't Post

In other post it says it looks too tall to be a dwarf, but I think it all depends of the point of view.


QuackingTroll
Valinor


Dec 21 2011, 12:51pm

Post #129 of 209 (1456 views)
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Just watched it in converted 3D and surround sound [In reply to] Can't Post

via my 50" TV Wink It's odd, but watching it on a TV makes it feel more in-tune with LotR somehow... I guess watching it on a small computer screen just doesn't do the epicness justice for some reason or perhaps it's just better the 10th time


dwarf_girl
The Shire


Dec 21 2011, 1:04pm

Post #130 of 209 (1444 views)
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Too many wrinkles for the big screen [In reply to] Can't Post

It kind of schock me to see both Ians faces. The years (10!) have not passed in vain, obviously. I imagine they didnt get to clean the images for this trailer (although Cate looked flawless as always).


Calmandcloudless
Lorien

Dec 21 2011, 1:05pm

Post #131 of 209 (1443 views)
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Hmm, well it wouldn't exactly be canon... [In reply to] Can't Post

... and besides, Gandalf/Radagast OTP Tongue


sarahb1863
Rivendell


Dec 21 2011, 1:08pm

Post #132 of 209 (1386 views)
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Just wanted to add... [In reply to] Can't Post

...after watching the trailer again and doing some comparison, that I'm pretty sure that, in the clip where Bilbo is grabbed by the shoulders and hoisted upward at about 2:00, that's Kili and Fili doing the hoisting. The sleeves on the two arms match the designs on their costumes. :-)


dwarf_girl
The Shire


Dec 21 2011, 1:25pm

Post #133 of 209 (1331 views)
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It's like a quickly wrapped Christmas gift... [In reply to] Can't Post

But a very sweet and endearing gift. I dont care if it got a couple of rough edges. I love it!


Radagast_the_Brown
Rivendell


Dec 21 2011, 1:29pm

Post #134 of 209 (1422 views)
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The first time I saw it I was underwhelmed... [In reply to] Can't Post

(probably because of tiredness and the weight of expectation), the second time I saw it I got all choked up though. Can't believe after all these years we're finally seeing a proper trailer Sly Still don't like the glossy, sterile, digital look overall and wish we were seeing some stuff that we haven't already seen in vblogs, but it's a beautiful trailer and I can't WAIT to see the finished product (or just the main theatrical trailer for now!).

All you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you...


marlonbrando76
The Shire

Dec 21 2011, 1:29pm

Post #135 of 209 (1362 views)
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have you noticed... [In reply to] Can't Post

Bilbo in the first scene with Frodo, is Mrtin Freeman not Holm ? Wink


dwarf_girl
The Shire


Dec 21 2011, 1:37pm

Post #136 of 209 (1348 views)
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Wizards love [In reply to] Can't Post

I always had a thing for Gandalf/Saruman. A love/hate always work Wink


Finrod
Rohan


Dec 21 2011, 1:41pm

Post #137 of 209 (1357 views)
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Actor creds? [In reply to] Can't Post

It will be interesting to see the final order for the actor credits. You'd think it would start off with Freeman, Armitage, McKellan, and in that order, but perhaps the last two will be swapped.

After that, who knows? They probably want to get Blanchett, Lee, Holm, Weaving, Fry, and Cumberbatch up there early, even though you'd think some of the Dwarves would figure earlier than some of those other characters.

Still waiting to see Brian Blessed as Dáin.

…all eyes looked upon the ring; for he held it now aloft, and the green jewels gleamed there that the Noldor had devised in Valinor. For this ring was like to twin serpents, whose eyes were emeralds, and their heads met beneath a crown of golden flowers, that the one upheld and the other devoured; that was the badge of Finarfin and his house.
The Silmarillion, pp 150-151
while Felagund laughs beneath the trees
in Valinor and comes no more
to this grey world of tears and war.
The Lays of Beleriand, p 311




(This post was edited by Finrod on Dec 21 2011, 1:41pm)


ByThorinsBeard
Rohan


Dec 21 2011, 1:58pm

Post #138 of 209 (1264 views)
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nice [In reply to] Can't Post

A good teaser trailer. Enjoyed the singing and seeing the chip the glasses moment at Bilbo's.

Seeing the LoTR stuff and no Beorn sunk my enthusiasm quite a bit but we're still a year out so...

All I can hear after the dwarves' monkish song (very cool) is Michael Palin's King of Swamp Castle from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Stop that! Stop that!" Tongue

Anyway, a nice start.

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere." - Albert Einstein.


Pipe Dream
Gondor


Dec 21 2011, 2:04pm

Post #139 of 209 (1275 views)
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Hummm... [In reply to] Can't Post

AWESOME! Too bad I have to go to work and my main computer contracted a virus while searching for the trailer last night. Can't wait to dig into all that. So then, it seems the trailer was only for the first movie, seems I was right about that...hee hee! That means in another 16? months we'll get another one! Smile The wait is going to seem that much longer now. I still have to watch this over and over again, frame by frame, but I'm happy with it. To the CGI naysayers you have to realize that when you compress down a hi-res image meant to be on a big screen, it tends to look like more like CGI, so don't worry. I'm sure it'll look amazing.

"There is a long road yet," said Gandalf. "But it is the last road," said Bilbo.


Bound
Rohan


Dec 21 2011, 2:13pm

Post #140 of 209 (1293 views)
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My 2 Cents.... [In reply to] Can't Post

First I want to say I thought the trailer was great... It did the job it was supposed to do as a teaser.

I'll be honest - my biggest emotion was relief. Don't ask me why but I'm just glad that the movies will look and feel like the movies that went before. My biggest fear was that it would be like the Star Wars prequels. I feared we might end up watching the trailer and it would look and feel like a totally different middle earth.

That's not how i felt. It felt like coming home.

Also after The Lovely Bones (which i personally hate and have been more than vocal about here before) I'm glad that Peter’s back to material that he looks like he's handling well.

I can see that they are going with a slightly darker / adult tone with the trailer (and the movies i guess) ... and that's fine, if it's just so they can blend nicely into the lord of the rings.

Someone here gave out about Martin Freeman's acting... to be honest - he looked great to me. We're not seeing him doing any the serious heavy acting and all the stuff we are seeing is more light hearted and to me, it look no more cheesy and comic that Ian Holm's comic acting....

The rest i think others have covered pretty well. It's a good teaser. I look forward to another trailer with more focus on the actual story - which i imagine we won't get for at least 5 months... don’t want over kill.


The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed


Carne
Tol Eressea

Dec 21 2011, 2:13pm

Post #141 of 209 (1332 views)
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To the people complaining about the CGI, colors etc: [In reply to] Can't Post

You realize they have ONE YEAR left of post-production? This isn't locked and pushed away, ready for release; this is stuff they'll work on over the next 12 months.


(This post was edited by Carne on Dec 21 2011, 2:14pm)


acheron
Gondor


Dec 21 2011, 2:19pm

Post #142 of 209 (1251 views)
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whew [In reply to] Can't Post

Well, I'm excited. Cool

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars, and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons. -- Douglas Adams


Calmandcloudless
Lorien

Dec 21 2011, 2:25pm

Post #143 of 209 (1233 views)
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*grin* [In reply to] Can't Post

Now there's a ship that could make it to the stars Wink


Macfeast
Rohan

Dec 21 2011, 2:29pm

Post #144 of 209 (1224 views)
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It is indeed Fili and Kili. [In reply to] Can't Post

Quint confirmed that in his sixth report; Good eyes.

http://newboards.theonering.net/...i?post=409581#409581


Mr. Arkenstone (isaac)
Tol Eressea


Dec 21 2011, 2:53pm

Post #145 of 209 (1271 views)
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this is my review of the trailer [In reply to] Can't Post

and the little "surprise" i had prepared for todayTongue


Darkstone
Immortal


Dec 21 2011, 3:08pm

Post #146 of 209 (1172 views)
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Mongol hat? [In reply to] Can't Post

I see it more as a 13th century cowboy hat.

We know who the horseman is.

I more and more like the varied look of the Dwarves. It indicates right off that they are refugees, a displaced people, with dreams of regaining a lost homeland.

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Brother will fight brother and both be his slayer,
brother and sister will violate all bonds of kinship;
hard it will be in the world, there will be much failure of honor,
an age of axes, an age of swords, where shields are shattered,
an age of winds, an age of wolves, where the world comes crashing down;
no man will spare another.

-From the Völuspá, 13th Century

(This post was edited by Darkstone on Dec 21 2011, 3:09pm)


flodwyns
Bree

Dec 21 2011, 3:11pm

Post #147 of 209 (1223 views)
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Had trouble getting it at first...... [In reply to] Can't Post

oh but it was so worth trying! It felt like coming home, or putting on a pair of comfy old shoes....it was just right! and now thanks to the Powers That Be....I have it in glorious 1080!

MF was perfect, as was Sir Ian....no-one will be surprised at that....It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces again.....it had quite the air of a reunion. The scenery/sets were just like stepping back through the years to a well-loved time....

I knew Richard Armitage would be brilliant....and I was not disappointed! regal, sad, wistful and confrontational! His singing was perfect....conveying loss and sadness.

I've been a Tolkien fan for 40+ years and now, waiting for the movie, I feel like a kid waiting for Santa to call!


alienorchid
Lorien


Dec 21 2011, 3:25pm

Post #148 of 209 (1141 views)
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I LOVE IT and [In reply to] Can't Post

I love the fire in the faces of the dwarves as they sing in Bag End.

What an amazing day it's been!


Radagast_the_Brown
Rivendell


Dec 21 2011, 3:29pm

Post #149 of 209 (1188 views)
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A bit on the marketing... [In reply to] Can't Post

based on the colour of the inital logo shot and the poster I think it's fair to say that gold will be the signature colour of this film much the same as green for FOTR, red for TTT and blue for ROTK. That'll probably be the colour of the EE anyway. And I'd guess silver for TABA.

All you have to decide, is what to do with the time that is given to you...


Darkstone
Immortal


Dec 21 2011, 3:31pm

Post #150 of 209 (1167 views)
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I predicted the Gandalf/Galadriel romance 11 months ago!!! [In reply to] Can't Post

I wonder what else I'll be right about?

http://newboards.theonering.net/...latest_reply;so=ASC;

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"Oh, Gandalf, Gandalf, you fool! Can’t you see how I feel?"

"Yeah, I see. I see our troubles don’t amount to a hill of beans. You belong with Celeborn. And I need to go find the only one who can save us."


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