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f00
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Feb 29 2012, 10:21pm
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Benedict Cumberbatch talks about Smaug and working with Martin
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1680152/the-hobbit-movie-stars.jhtml
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"It's a sort of wonderful ongoing process," he said. "I spent a lot of time recording voice as well as doing movements. So, it was sort of freeing; it was fun."
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Voronwë_the_Faithful
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Feb 29 2012, 10:41pm
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So much for him only doing voice work for the Necromancer! That changes everything that we have been thinking. Unless, of course, he was talking about yet another character. But I don't think so.
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duats
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Feb 29 2012, 10:41pm
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Did he just confirm mo-cap for The Necromancer?
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I was under the impression that he was only providing the voice.
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vexx801
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Feb 29 2012, 10:45pm
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Seems that way.
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musterd
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Mar 1 2012, 1:05am
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Love what he said about Martin; that was sweet. Really looking forward to his Bilbo.
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Xanaseb
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Mar 1 2012, 1:14am
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Darn videos only in the US!!!!!!
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darn video restrictions lol
The Lord of the Hams:
There is only one lord of the ham...and he does not share ham
One Ham to ham them all and in the hamness ham them
If this is indeed the ham of the council, hamdor will fry it done.
This is no rabble of mindless porks, these are Hamak-Hai: their steak is thick, and their bacon broad
(courtesy of moreham and HamTheEast)
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QuackingTroll
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Mar 1 2012, 1:18am
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Why mo-cap an already human-shaped character?
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Clearly the "nameless character" will be much more than just another Ring-wraith type creature. Why he'd need mo-cap as opposed to other techniques is interesting... How human will this thing look?
"...For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth"
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Otaku-sempai
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Mar 1 2012, 2:31am
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Why mo-cap an already human-shaped character?
Why not? Gollum is human-shaped.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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dernwyn
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Mar 1 2012, 2:32am
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Maybe he's also doing Roac. //
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"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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Milknut
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Mar 1 2012, 6:20am
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That's how I feel about everything on BBC.
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How dare they????!! 
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Earl
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Mar 1 2012, 7:18am
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And welcome to TORn :)
So I guess it's confirmed that the Necromancer will be more than just a voice character. This sort of ties in with what Benedict said in a previous interview about the Necromancer going to the Battle of Five Armies. I guess the consolation is that the character remains "nameless".
The Plan 9 Interview... in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the release of The Fellowship of the Ring.
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DanielLB
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Mar 1 2012, 8:06am
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Was that meant to be a joke? hahaha!
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Because all I can imagine now is BC walking round a studio flapping his arms up and down 
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Silverlode
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Mar 1 2012, 8:10am
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method acting.
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"Of all faces those of our familiares are the ones both most difficult to play fantastic tricks with, and most difficult really to see with fresh attention. They have become like the things which once attracted us by their glitter, or their colour, or their shape, and we laid hands on them, and then locked them in our hoard, acquired them, and acquiring ceased to look at them.
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else [make something new], may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn into flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you." -On Fairy Stories
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FarFromHome
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Mar 1 2012, 9:42am
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He does say the mo-cap is for "another character, which will remain nameless" (not who will remain nameless), so maybe it's not a human. And if he does just mean the Necromancer, I'd have to wonder why he wouldn't mention the name, since he's talked about playing him a number of times before.
Besides, he'll have had to indulge in some wing-flapping anyway, to play Smaug, won't he?
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.
From the unpublished Epilogue to the Lord of the Rings
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Xanaseb
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Mar 1 2012, 10:33am
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oh yeah true true milknut, at least we can watch something of a better quality ;)
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Joking 
The Lord of the Hams:
There is only one lord of the ham...and he does not share ham
One Ham to ham them all and in the hamness ham them
If this is indeed the ham of the council, hamdor will fry it done.
This is no rabble of mindless porks, these are Hamak-Hai: their steak is thick, and their bacon broad
(courtesy of moreham and HamTheEast)
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QuackingTroll
Doriath
Mar 1 2012, 1:23pm
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I'm not questioning their motives for using mo-cap, but speculating what this means about the character. Gollum needed mo-cap because of how thin and non-human he looks despite his shape. I wonder how human The Necromancer is going to look. Obviously, if he is simply missing a few fingers on one hand then mo-cap wouldn't be necessary.
"...For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth"
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painjoiker
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Mar 1 2012, 1:27pm
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If the second one is not The Necromancer,
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I would guess it's one of the Trolls maybe?
Cumberbatch, Serkis and one more as the trolls?
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Carne
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Mar 1 2012, 1:38pm
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He even says he is doing mo-cap for a character he can't talk about. Everyone knows he'll voice the Necromancer, so obviously he would say so.
Probably a cameo.
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Faenoriel
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Mar 1 2012, 1:53pm
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Benedict playing the Necromancer, and the Necromancer being Sauron aren't exactly SPOILER stuff.
Let's assume he has been given a third character to play too.
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ShireHorse
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Mar 1 2012, 2:03pm
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Well, I think that BC is the type to make a "literary" joke.
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I'm pretty sure that the second character is the Necromancer and BC is being a bit tongue-in-cheek. In Rider Haggard's "She", Ayesha is a sorceress and is referred to only as She Who Must Be Obeyed and, of course, Voldemort, The Dark Lord of Harry Potter, is called He Who Must Not Be Named.
Not only is this BC's little joke but it means he can avoid revealing whether the character will be called The Necromancer or Sauron or Whoever.
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QuackingTroll
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Mar 1 2012, 2:36pm
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He simply doesn't want to spoil it for non-book fans...
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Which is great. I've said before that I loved the shock a lot of non-comic fans had when Harvey Dent changed in The Dark Knight. Just because fans already know what's going to happen, it doesn't mean you have to spoil it for those that don't.
"...For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth"
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Theodred
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Mar 1 2012, 9:59pm
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The video of the interview is now on YouTube:
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You can find it here:
http://dehobbithyve.hyves.nl/
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/the-hobbit-news-widget-ronald_40
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Milknut
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Mar 3 2012, 12:21am
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Hm, maybe he just wasn't sure what he could talk about.
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Regardless, I would LOVE to see him and Andy do two trolls. That would be the epic-est ever. 
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