Thanks again to Ringer Linuxelf for posting this absolutely wonderful TV One interview with actor Stephen Hunter, aka Bombur in the upcoming The Hobbit films. [YouTube]
how much fat will be left on him after 2 months of solid training? And ofc how much will be left after 12 months of filming. Could our Bombur be a magic advert for weight watchers?
He seems like a great guy, but I wonder how overwhelmed he'll be with The Hobbit, if it all? Commercial and guest spot work usually only take a day or two to shoot. With The Hobbit, he's doing a lot of training, putting makeup on for hours, working long acting hours, and doing a very strenuous job for the next year and a half straight. Hopefully he's okay after getting used to it, being plucked from obscurity, and put into one of the biggest film productions ever. He'll have some great opportunities ahead of him, after The Hobbit wraps, me thinks.
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Hopefully this crew will find time...
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to enjoy the forest for the trees, as it were, during the long journey there and back again.
I'm sure it will be a long, and at times, hard journey up the mountain, but the view will be worth it and the friendships gained will hopefully last a lifetime. Middle Earth is New Zealand!
"Question everything, embrace the bad, and hold on to the good."
that he's going to have a ball on these films. The 'making of' DVD appendices should be a riot! :) Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..." Dwarves: "Pretty rings..." Men: "Pretty rings..." Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded b*****d with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
But good on him. He seems a decent sort. Kinda like winning the lottery 'cept you have to work for it... which, come to think of it, makes it not at all like winning the lottery... ---------------------------------------------------- If you give a man a fire, he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life. --Solid Jackson-- (from Terry Pratchett's "Jingo")
Well, she is probably a Stay-At-Home Mom..
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With a 4 month Old Baby...Well their Baby was born at the Right Time, since Stephen is gunna Make enough on this Film to probably send(him or Her?) to College...I'm so Glad the Film people picked him, since he could really be going Places after these 2 Films...Thank you, PJ, Fran, and All for Helping this Wonderful guy OUT! xoxoOldBombadil
What lovely dark eyes he has! - and a puzzle!
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Really, I find his eyes fascinating! He is a delight, isn't he? I was laughing at the replays of his dunking into the water, since Bombur will find himself "dunked" in Mirkwood!
Now, for the puzzle: at 2:38, we see him reading The Hobbit, and he flips the page to reveal lines of verse and a black-and-white illustration. What is the verse, and what is that illustration, and who created it?
Answer: And down, down to Goblin-town you go, my lad! It's the Goblin's song as they haul Bilbo and the dwarves down into the Misty Mountains; and the illustration is Tolkien's own "The Mountain-path". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?" -Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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We have a winner (for the illustration, that is)!
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Not every copy has those illustrations of Tolkien's; my old paperback does not.
Nowadays I use Douglas Anderson's latest Annotated Hobbit for reference - and of course, it has all of Tolkien's illustrations, plus more from various versions of The Hobbit. It's a wonderful book, and I highly recommend it!
(And after that, of course, you need to continue on with John D. Rateliff's History of The Hobbit...) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?" -Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
Nice! That's my kind of training.
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