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Elijah Wood will be in 'The Hobbit'
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macfalk
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Jan 8 2011, 11:55am

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Kangi [In reply to] Can't Post

Admit it, your fanfic part of the brain wants this, and more Evil



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Kangi Ska
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Jan 8 2011, 12:00pm

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I am not trying to champion a purist approach to the Hobbit. [In reply to] Can't Post

I just want to make the point that this is the Hobbit and not Lord of the Rings chapter one. It deserves some respect. Saying that Elijah Wood will star in the Hobbit (as I have read on several websites)makes my concern clear. There are those that hope for that which I fear most. i want The Hobbit. I can accept a bit of nostalgic framing to set it up and a bit of background story to make it even more meaningful but only a bit. If the set up and background becomes the story then I will not live to see the Hobbit done justice on the big screen.
I want the heart and soul of the Hobbit. A little frosting is OK, but only a little.


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Bran
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Jan 8 2011, 12:01pm

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Balin in Moria not necessary for the Hobbit [In reply to] Can't Post

True, but most definitely IS necessary for the films to make sense as a quintet. Galadriel is not necessary for the Hobbit, but has been cast. Drogo has been cast, not in The Hobbit. We never see or hear Radagast in The Hobbit, but a well known actor has been cast. We know these things. It's clear that we are going to be seeing more than just the Hobbit story, and, imo, the reason for that is to tell the whole story over 5 films. I cannot see that these two new films will only tell the Hobbit story. In fact, It's obvious that they won't by the castings.

Jackson et al made the first three films for people who have, and have not read the books. Balin going to Moria may not need to be explained for the Hobbit story per se, and not for readers of Tolkien's works. For the movies though, that has to be explained. It makes no sense otherwise.

It's pretty clear to me why the bridge film concept was abandoned, but it was abandoned as a film. I think some of that material will still be included, and the castings support that.

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(This post was edited by Bran on Jan 8 2011, 12:03pm)


Kangi Ska
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Jan 8 2011, 12:05pm

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The letter I quoted in an earlier post was from the fanfic part of my brain. [In reply to] Can't Post

Seven or so years of thought has helped the hormones settle and self examination mellow my desires.

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Kangi Ska
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Jan 8 2011, 12:55pm

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It would take one line of dialog [In reply to] Can't Post

added to the final scene of the book (You know where Balin and Gandalf visit Bilbo at Bag End some years after Bilbo's return) to completely set up the Moria colony. Balin says: "By the way me and some of the boys are going back to Khazad-dum to set up shop."

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Bran
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Jan 8 2011, 1:00pm

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Let's agree to differ! [In reply to] Can't Post

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Flagg
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Jan 8 2011, 1:35pm

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Perhaps film-Frodo liked to live alone [In reply to] Can't Post

and Sam moved in to Bag End shortly following the end of the third film? But not the Sackville-Bagginses... no!


Flagg
Tol Eressea


Jan 8 2011, 1:42pm

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There's an easy solution to this [In reply to] Can't Post

At some point in The Hobbit, while the Company is travelling, Balin walks alongside Bilbo and they start chatting. This will help to establish Balin as Bilbo's best friend amongst the Dwarves. They end up discussing what they want to do with themselves once they get their share of Smaug's treasure (reminding the audience of the film's purpose). Balin mentions that he'd like to take a colony of Dwarves and restore the abandoned underground city of Khazad-dûm to its former glory.

There's no need for Balin to mention this in the scene at the very end of the second film where he and Gandalf visit Bag End – The Hobbit shouldn't end on such a downbeat note reminding us that there is plenty of death and failure to come.


Bran
Lorien

Jan 8 2011, 2:08pm

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I agree with that [In reply to] Can't Post

Flagg, the point about the 'end' of film 2. In the original film appendices, the film makers talked about why they couldn't put the Saruman scene after the End of Helm's deep. In essence, it's more story after the film has ended, and that's a bad idea. I'm not sure how, but any exposition leading us into film 3 (FOTR) may well have to be done earlier. It's certainly interesting to speculate how that will be achieved.

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Flagg
Tol Eressea


Jan 8 2011, 2:15pm

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I wouldn't say [In reply to] Can't Post

that Jackson 'went out of his way to let Tolkien be Tolkien' – he did quite a good job of keeping the films faithful to the books, but many changes were made that were not needed, some of them very un-Tolkien. I think Jackson's trilogy is excellent – perhaps even a masterpiece – but it is by no means a perfect adaptation of the books. We've already seen three Jackson-directed, Jackson-scripted, Jackson-produced Tolkien films, and I was quite excited to see something somewhat different – I was not only OK with the GdT/PJ team, I was highly enthusiastic about it. I would have been just as enthusiastic if del Toro had been given free reign and allowed to go crazy with The Hobbit – perhaps even more enthusiastic. I don't get why people often say they want Jackson to direct 'for continuity' – they seem to have a different definition in mind for the term than I do. If the characters are all portrayed by the same actors, and if the returning sets and props and costumes all look the same as they looked before, that's continuity. Different storytelling techniques or camera angles don't break the cohesion of a fictional universe.

I think you are misinterpreting del Toro's statements regarding Tolkien's work. He did not say that Tolkien was a neo-platonist or that he used spiritual allegory; he was comparing Tolkien to the man in the story of the cave. By the shadows on the wall, Tolkien was able to sense an other world – what he himself called the 'secondary universe' – beyond the mundane reality to which we are all confined. Del Toro's comments related to the magnitude and quality of Tolkien's writings, not to their spiritual or allegorical significance. He made a number of other statements in the quote I posted, reflecting his deep knowledge and familiarity with the myths Tolkien drew from. He expresses what I think is a genuine understanding of The Hobbit's core themes – greed, war, hoarding, the loss of innocence – not platonism and Catholic allegory!

I have no doubt that Guillermo would have produced an astounding rendition of The Hobbit – I don't think I'll ever completely get over his departure. But one thing I totally agree with you on is The Children of Húrin...


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Jan 8 2011, 3:46pm

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Hi Ataahua!! *waves* [In reply to] Can't Post

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The Party Tree
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Jan 8 2011, 4:11pm

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According to what Frodo is writing in the Red Book in those final scenes... [In reply to] Can't Post

...Sam was elected Mayor, all the same (I'm not absolutely sure on this because his arm is covering the book, but it seems to say):

"Samwise Gamgee was elected...[hand blocks page]
...Hobbiton, and though it took [???]
courage, he finally asked [???]
of fair Rosie Cotton [etc]."

Although I suppose that was just a little added gift to book fans and we shouldn't read into it. But I can't really accept the Sackville-Bagginses living in Bag End. That's just too much.


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Kangi Ska
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Jan 8 2011, 5:34pm

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I was pointing out that many of these side issues can be taken care of inside the story of The Hobbit. [In reply to] Can't Post

No need for time eating side trips when a bit of good writing takes care of the whole process. I only picked the books end scene because it exists and could be used as an example.

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Jan 8 2011, 6:17pm

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"Star" in the film? [In reply to] Can't Post

I'd hope that by 'starring' they mean 'maybe 5 minutes of screentime'. Because, well, the Hobbit stars Bilbo. I don't mind if it co-stars Gandalf with the whole White Council/Dol Guldur debacle, but... I hope that the 'future' scenes are limited.

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dormouse
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Jan 8 2011, 7:11pm

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I think and hope [In reply to] Can't Post

... the references to Elijah Wood 'starring' in The Hobbit are just a bit of lazy journalism which started with someone who knew nothing of the books and assumed 'hobbit' = 'Frodo', and repeated by others.

I can't conceive of any way in which Frodo could have a starring role in these films - that's Bilbo's job.


SirDennisC
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Jan 8 2011, 7:54pm

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The way it works: [In reply to] Can't Post

Any named cast appearing before the proper credit crawl -- sorted by size or importance of role and/or by seniority -- would rightly be described as "starring" in a film. Usually we see big names with small roles included at the end of the list following the words "and" or "and featuring." Likewise when a relatively unknown or young actor has a big part their name usually appears at the end of the list after the words "and introducing." Regardless, if they are listed before the crawl, they are a star of that work.

Don't quote me of course but no matter the size of his role, Wood is entitled to the descriptor "starring in" or "star of" because of his status, seniority, and/or the contribution he has already made to the franchise.

In common usage (ie among fans), if he is just one of many named cast members we might refer to him as "a star of The Hobbit movies." However, if his part is small, tangential, or otherwise insignificant we might call him "featured" or in "cameo" both of which acknowledge his star status. Conversely, even in common usage he would never (correctly) be called a "featured extra" or "extra."


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macfalk
Valinor


Jan 8 2011, 8:17pm

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dormouse [In reply to] Can't Post

Yeah, a lot of newspapers/sites are just recycling the same thing all over again.



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FarFromHome
Valinor


Jan 8 2011, 8:23pm

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I'd forgotten that Sam becoming Mayor [In reply to] Can't Post

is in the movie's Red Book. It's true it's just a glimpse, but I figure if it's there it must mean something...

But Sam doesn't need to move into Bag End to be Mayor - it's more important, I'd say, that he starts to take charge in the way that we see him doing when he goes to talk to Rosie. Once he's taken that one courageous step, he's on his way to greater things.


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But I can't really accept the Sackville-Bagginses living in Bag End. That's just too much.


Well we're never told that, so no need to accept it! Cool I know a lot of people have made up endings that suit them better, such as Sam finding the deeds to Bag End inside the Red Book, and moving in after the end of the movie. I guess it's left open enough that we can imagine whatever we like.

I suppose I I imagine it different ways depending what mood I'm in, but I think it's quite possible to imagine that the Sackville-Bagginses got Bag End. Sam's reward is his happy family, and I think they'd be just as happy in that cosy hobbit-hole as they would in Bag End. But I bet Mayor Sam shook up those smug hobbits, like the S-Bs, the Proudfeet, and the hobbits with the pumpkin, once he got to be Mayor!

They went in, and Sam shut the door.
But even as he did so, he heard suddenly,
deep and unstilled,
the sigh and murmur of the Sea upon the shores of Middle-earth.
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nobofthepony
Lorien


Jan 8 2011, 8:39pm

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case in point... [In reply to] Can't Post

There were choices PJ made that I probably would pulled the trigger on, yet he backed off because it wasn't true to Tolkien. The case in point is your avatar! If I were directing I would have done it! To have Sauron come out at the end like that...I would have done it. I'm surprised PJ stopped himself. Same with Arwen at Helm's Deep, etc.

I don't know...I guess it's just when GDT waxes philosophical it's like listening to Bono talk about world peace. For me at least. I guess my sensibilites just naturally lean toward a Peter Jackson. I like GDT in smaller doses.

What irks me is what seems like a measuring rod on this board - "Would GDT have signed off on this?" I don't necessarily think the standard for validity is GDT's opinion. He's entitled to it, but I trust Peter Jackson. That's what my posts are responding to. The unspoken assumption that GDT signing off on something makes it legitimate.


Flagg
Tol Eressea


Jan 8 2011, 8:58pm

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According to the EE appendices [In reply to] Can't Post

Jackson removed the 'Aragorn vs Sauron' fight because using fourteen-foot bad guys in suits of armour as the climax for an entire epic trilogy just didn't work very well. He didn't remove that sequence out of a sense of loyalty to Tolkien – if that was the reason, it never would have made it past the storyboards. Once the battle had been filmed and intercut with the Cracks of Doom sequence, the filmmakers saw that it simply wasn't working very well, so they digitally replaced Sauron with a mountain troll.


nobofthepony
Lorien


Jan 8 2011, 9:27pm

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let me check [In reply to] Can't Post

Ok - let me check the appendices on that point. I specifically remember the words being said "It just wasn't Tolkien" but I'll defer if it's not there. I thought they said it was because they didn't want everything Frodo went through to hinge on a battle between Aragorn and Sauron, because that was anti-climactic, trivialized Frodo's sufferings and wasn't Tolkien.


Flagg
Tol Eressea


Jan 8 2011, 9:38pm

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I think the other reasons [In reply to] Can't Post

(that it was anti-climactic and that it trivialised Frodo's quest) were probably more influential in the decision to cut that sequence than the fact that it wasn't very Tolkienesque. There are plenty of aspects to the films that are very unlike Tolkien's writings.


nobofthepony
Lorien


Jan 8 2011, 9:48pm

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question [In reply to] Can't Post

Any film will be very unlike Tolkien's writings. Just so I have a sense of where your coming from, what changes would you have made/reversed to make the films better?


Mooseboy018
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Jan 8 2011, 9:51pm

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exact quote... [In reply to] Can't Post

"It was not what Tolkien imagined, and we realized that was actually totally demeaning to what Aragorn was doing."


Flagg
Tol Eressea


Jan 8 2011, 10:03pm

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Well [In reply to] Can't Post

There are plenty of newly-added sequences in the films that I just didn't want, such as Aragorn falling off a cliff in The Two Towers, apparently dying, then turning out to be okay after all. I would have significantly decreased the length of the Battle for Helm's Deep, because in retrospect, having seen the whole trilogy, it seems like Minas Tirith-lite. Jackson's Faramir was a very different character than Tolkien's – that change didn't bother me personally, but many people hated it. Much criticism has also been levelled at Jackson's reworking of the Shelob sequence, which has Gollum manipulating Frodo into sending Sam packing. There was the simplification of previously complex characters like Saruman and Denethor. And of course there's the very unsubtle, physical, gigantic flaming eyeball attached to the top of Barad-dûr. I also missed the Scouring of the Shire, which Tolkien himself said was a necessary and integral part of the story.

I would have reversed (or at least reconsidered) all of the above if I had been in charge – some changes go against the spirit of what Tolkien wrote, and some I just don't like. On the whole, I am very happy with what Jackson did with the trilogy – but I still wish we were getting a different director's take on Middle-earth for once.

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