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Gelir
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Feb 6 2013, 4:28am
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For the goblins, however, it felt a bit like slaughter. I don't know why, but I had always felt that the Goblin King's death was quite violent, and his body falling on top of the dwarves at the end seemed a bit much -- since it was played for laughs. In the EE I hope they would extend the Goblin King's scene and actually have him do something horrible to the dwarves to sort of 'justify' his death.
I think the goblins are very evil, even if there are humorous moments. It was like slaughter, but not unjustified. What else could the dwarves do? If the goblins had nicely stepped aside, they would have run out of there without any killing. The goblins were attacking them as they were trying to flee, so they did what they had to do.
The goblin king was indeed about to do horrible things (or get his underlings to do them). "Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung. You'll be beaten and battered, from racks you'll be hung. You will die down here and never be found, down in the deep of goblin town." I think that pretty much says it all right there.
Just for good measure though - what about "kill them, kill them all! Cut off his head!" :)
With the wargs - I understand what everyone is saying about animals, and in life I feel the same way. I'd certainly never go on a wolf killing spree. However... if I was in a situation where it was either kill a wolf or be killed by one, with escape being impossible, I'd opt for trying to kill the wolf. And in the movies, I think it's pretty clear that the wargs are not wolves, and they are evil.
As for the trolls... I do prefer them getting turned to stone vs. killed by swords, but I think they also got what was coming to them. They'd just eaten a farmer and his family, after all.
None of this is to say that I'm in favor of all the killing or battle scenes. I generally prefer for action scenes to be shorter - in this movie, LotR, or pretty much any other movie with long action scenes, fantasy or not. I do enjoy the battle scenes in the Hobbit, but had they opted to shorten them up in favor of something else (maybe more dialogue from some of the dwarves we didn't hear from as much), I'd have been perfectly happy with that.
I just think that given the scenes as presented, the dwarves, Bilbo, and Gandalf did the right thing when facing danger.
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Súlimë
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Feb 5 2013, 4:14pm
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sweet!
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swordwhale
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Feb 5 2013, 4:27pm
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An episodic story is perfect
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Escapist
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Feb 5 2013, 4:31pm
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Too much killing
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Yva
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Feb 5 2013, 5:58pm
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My thoughts
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Súlimë
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Feb 6 2013, 2:49am
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But wait...
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Gelir
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Feb 6 2013, 4:28am
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Heh
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Súlimë
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Feb 6 2013, 5:06am
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No sympathy for goblins :)
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Gelir
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Feb 7 2013, 4:41am
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The Goblin Town sequence was too long.
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Elizabeth
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Feb 6 2013, 5:11am
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Agree
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sevilodorf
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Feb 7 2013, 2:35am
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There were moments when it was too graphic. Thror really stands out.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 6 2013, 4:51am
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Interesting//
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Rostron2
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Feb 5 2013, 6:05pm
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nice to hear...
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andwise
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Feb 5 2013, 8:17pm
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Spouses, my husband...
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glor
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Feb 6 2013, 2:29am
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I laughed out loud at 'proper blokes'
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Súlimë
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Feb 6 2013, 5:14am
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Yap
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Arannir
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Feb 6 2013, 8:37am
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well My husband is a 'proper bloke', born in the East End of London..
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glor
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Feb 6 2013, 12:23pm
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ROFL
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Loresilme
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Feb 6 2013, 5:10pm
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Too funny!
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Roheryn
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Feb 6 2013, 8:11pm
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He read it :-)?!
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Loresilme
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Feb 7 2013, 4:01pm
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Well, I figure he did...
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Roheryn
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Feb 7 2013, 8:25pm
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I used to think
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entmaiden
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Feb 7 2013, 9:40pm
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Who wouldn't
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Roheryn
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Feb 7 2013, 11:01pm
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TMI, Ro
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entmaiden
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Feb 7 2013, 11:04pm
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the weird thing is...
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glor
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Feb 7 2013, 1:19am
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BIGWIT! lol! //
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Loresilme
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Feb 7 2013, 4:07pm
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The sheer amount of Goblin hacking is overwhelming
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Kimtc
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Feb 6 2013, 1:26am
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All right. I think that is a fair read.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 6 2013, 4:01am
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Yep
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Súlimë
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Feb 6 2013, 5:10am
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Nice to read!
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sador
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Feb 6 2013, 9:29am
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Blue wizards will never appear because of film rights
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stoutfiles
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Feb 6 2013, 1:31pm
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Even the fact that they are "blue"
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Ardamírë
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Feb 6 2013, 1:51pm
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Be quiet
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 6 2013, 9:53pm
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Naturally, no!
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Ardamírë
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Feb 6 2013, 11:09pm
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lol.
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AinurOlorin
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Feb 7 2013, 12:19am
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interesting insight
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FrogmortonJustice65
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Feb 6 2013, 3:56pm
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Troll "battle"/book version
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arithmancer
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Feb 6 2013, 4:46pm
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