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Bombadil
Gondolin
Aug 22 2012, 1:18am
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Smoke-Rings as a GCI device...
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I knew when Bilbo&G-man..
were sitting on the front Step
Blowing Smoke Rings and G. formed
a sailing ship thorough B-boys ring
and then they dissolved..I knew We were
in a movie of Special Magifigance.
SO here we are on the Front step of these 3
and any ideas on how to use this device
to all..it's 3D-CGI...glory?
"... found Thorin with his feet on the fender
smoking a pipe. He was blowing the most enormous
smoke-rings,and wherever he told them to go, it went-up
the chimney, or behind the clock on the mantlepeice, or under
the table, or round and round the ceiling; but wherever it went
it was not quick enough to escape Gandalf.
POP! he sent a smaller smoke-ring from his short clay-pipe straight though one of Thorin's.
Then Gandalf's smoke-ring would go green and come back and hover
over the wizard's head. He had a cloud of them over his head already
and in the dim light it made him look strange and sorcerous..."
Have FUN..blowing your OWN smoke-Ring ideas on this thread!
Bomby (Who...bytheway... taught G-man how to...Do That)
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TomthePilgrim
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Aug 22 2012, 1:27am
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ohhhhhhhhhhh . . . . . . . . .
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I remember that now . . . and in 3D . . . I hope PJ doesn't think it is repeditive after the LOTR.
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
"Thorin sat up with a start. 'Something is not right,' he muttered to himself as he stood up and
looked towards the mirror . . . . . . . . . 'Durin's bones', he gasped, 'what's happened to my beard?'"
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Intergalactic Lawman
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Aug 22 2012, 3:03am
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I'm sure it's part of your charm...
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...but i find your posts really hard to understand! 
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MouthofSauron
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Aug 22 2012, 3:35am
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oh yeah, bring on those green smoke rings!!!
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i love just imagining what that would look like, PJ better include those! plus if viewers start with TH, Gandalf almost seems a bit sinister with green smoke rings going around him in the dark.
From the bottom of the Long-Lake a dragon shall be possessed...green lights glowing out of the deep waters shall be seen where the dragon fell...reanimated shall be Smaug that was killed...and the Dark Lord will fly over Middle-Earth unopposed...raining fire down upon his enemies...
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Bombadil
Gondolin
Aug 22 2012, 3:47am
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Well ever heard of the Word..Malaprop?
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Spelling isn't my Forte
yet its more important to Bomby
to Tongue-Twist .
Straight forward Dissertation type Academic posts
going all..the way to the end of any forum post really gets on my Nerves.
TB&G write ...in Conversational
Speak
with Breath Breaks..
Never read Bomby seriously..Since THAT SchoolBook
Writin' stuff is fine but sometimes
is Maybe Kinda Sorta Bland?
TB&G
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AinurOlorin
Gondolin
Aug 22 2012, 4:11am
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Don't forget the many coloured smoke rings he sent dancing around the cave
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in The Misty Mountains to entertain Bilbo and The Dwarves as they prepared for sleep! I don't know if the Wizard's enchanted smoke rings will make it in, but I very much hope they do, and I think there is a good chance of it, considering the effort Peter put into giving them a place in LOTR, where they otherwise don't make an appeareance. It adds so much of that powerful, simple wonder and charm, and I think it will further humanize Bilbo and The Dwarves to see them staring with wonder and pleasure at the Wizard's art, as Bilbo does in Fellowship.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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AinurOlorin
Gondolin
Aug 22 2012, 4:13am
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Smoke is more effective in 3D than virtually anything aside from Snow and ashes
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I don't think he will be able to resist. I hope he can't. One of those rare times when I really want Peter to indulge himself to his heart's content. I remember that now . . . and in 3D . . . I hope PJ doesn't think it is repeditive after the LOTR.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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Bombadil
Gondolin
Aug 22 2012, 4:52am
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"...they made their blankets comfortable,
got out their pipes and blew Smoke rings WHICH Gandalf TURNED
into Different colors ..
and set dancing up
by the roof to amuse them.."
So Gandalf had the Power
to change the Dwarves many plain smoke rings
... into different Colors!
How cool is That?
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FiliSonOfDis
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Aug 22 2012, 5:15am
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I think we will certainly see more enchanted smoke rings
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Honestly seeing bilbo (and of course the dwarves) blowing smoke rings and gandalf making magic ones will not only be a "cool" 3d effect it will harken back to the lord of the rings movies and give the audience a sense of nostalgia for that scene.
In the long run it will also give the scene in fellowship where gandalf and bilbo have a smoke together as old friends another layer of charm as the audience will now have seen them years earlier relaxing together the same way.
PJ would have to be crazy not to take the opportunity to include those scenes.
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DanielLB
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Aug 22 2012, 9:05am
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Probably the two best parts of the books that would work well in 3D!
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Bombadil
Gondolin
Aug 22 2012, 11:35am
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One more Device..maybe in Mirkwood?
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Overhead Shot?..one smoke-ring
enlarges towards the Audience and
within it..dissolves....into.... Flashback of maybe
the review of the history of Dale's
Distruction?
This is a campfire story-telling adventure..so
a flashback within a Smoke-Ring sounds
like aPerfectly logical Cinema Device.
Bomby
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TheSexyBeard
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Aug 22 2012, 12:42pm
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So Gandalf had the Power
to change the Dwarves many plain smoke rings
... into different Colors!
How cool is That?
If PJ and co include this it would be a nice touch if Gandalf turned the dwarves' smoke rings the same colour as their hoods.
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DanielLB
Elvenhome
Aug 22 2012, 1:53pm
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I had this exact same thought Bombadil
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A vertical smoke ring moving towards the audience, the inside of the ring then turns into a flashback, but we still see the outside of the ring (i.e. Mirkwood) until the flashback sequence takes up the entire screen. If that makes sense?
Kind of like zooming through the Ring in Mount Doom in ROTK, but reversed.
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teargift
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Aug 22 2012, 3:18pm
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Your writing weaves beautiful imagery for me, and I find it intriguing. So much so, that I look forward to your posts. I came out of hiding from behind a 3D smoke ring to say so.
Yes, I do hope we are treated to this effect, and more than a fool's hope I believe.
"I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
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Shelob'sAppetite
Doriath
Aug 22 2012, 3:55pm
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That's the kind of device film school teaches you to abandon before the end of the fist class. 
But I can't wait for 3D smokerings, to be honest. If there was ever an appropriate use for 3D in these films, this is it.
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Bombadil
Gondolin
Aug 22 2012, 9:37pm
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SA..Okay I don't know your background here is a brief of Bomby'
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Degree from University 1972
Radio,Television FILM (Film emiphasis)
SHOT News for 3TV Network affiliates in
Oklahoma&Texas
Worked from1985. though 2000 for a presigious Media co.
The past 11 years as a Union Stagehands often
as a CameraOP..
now retired.
While examining... Film history. even in the Silent ERA
What I was referring to ...about the Smoke-Ring dissolve
Is known sometimes as an " Iris dissolve"
as if an Iris of a Lens.. widens to reveal something new?
Was used even back in history to be seen in "The Fight to the Moon "
about 1910? MAYBE one in "Potemkin"
(Russian Epic we studied..and even in
Keystone Cops? or The Birth of a. Nation "
Anyway
PJ had a great " Horizontal Wipe"
when he needed a transistion from
Aragorn Gimli Leggy entering Fangorn to show what had
happened to Merry & Pippin? CHECK that in TTT.
Transistion dissolves come in" Fades to Black"
to. .."Fades to White" which PJ also used..
One in Particular I loved was when Awen invisioned
Eldarion?..running towards an Old grey Aragorn..
sorta a 45Degree wipe from the Forest
to reveal Full frame.... of him being picked up
her possiable Son?
I notice these things..Bomby.
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DanielLB
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Aug 22 2012, 9:44pm
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I think it would be quite evocative
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It's probably not the best device in a film, but it certainly would be interesting to see.
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AinurOlorin
Gondolin
Aug 23 2012, 12:11am
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"Birth of a Nation" out of the commentary, as it is one of the most vilely revisionist, duplicitous, racist films in the history of your nation and mine 
That said, I understand both your points. I do see how a 3D smokering as a framing device might come across as gimmicky, but I also think 3D smokerings in general, and the inclusion of Gandalf's enchanted smokerings would be absolutely wondrous, and it would be a mistake for Peter to leave them out.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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Shelob'sAppetite
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Aug 23 2012, 1:52am
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I just think that David Lean's revolutionary cut from the match to the desert in Lawrence of Arabia was one of the best things to happen to cinema.
In general, I find fades of this sort to look gimmicky and cheap, whether they feature in older or more modern films.
That said, I do hope PJ keeps the smoke rings in!
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DanielLB
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Aug 23 2012, 7:05am
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Did you like the flashbacks in the LOTR trilogy? /
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Ruinwen
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Aug 24 2012, 5:21am
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This is one of my favourite passages from TH. Not sure why - just amuses me on many levels. I love the slightly perverse pleasure Gandalf takes in making them wait, as well as the idea of him unashamedly stuffing his face.
'At last Gandalf pushed away his plate and jug - he had eaten two whole loaves (with masses of butter and honey and clotted cream) and drunk at least a quart of mead - and he took out his pipe. "I will answer the second question first," he said, '-but bless me! this is a splendid place for smoke rings!" Indeed for a long time they could get nothing more out of him, he was so busy sending smoke rings dodging round the pillars of the hall, changing them into all sorts of different shapes and colours, and setting them at last chasing one another out of the hole in the roof. They must have looked very queer from outside, popping out into the air one after another, green, blue, red, silver-grey, yellow, white; big ones, little ones; little ones dodging through big ones and joining into figure-eights, and going off into a flock into the distance.'
From what I've seen of the Beorn's house set, it looks as if it would be a splendid place indeed for smoke-rings. I really, really hope they include this sequence.
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AinurOlorin
Gondolin
Aug 24 2012, 5:54pm
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Agreed. I very much hope to see this scene as well. I had almost forgotten it, and am very glad you reminded me. This is one of my favourite passages from TH. Not sure why - just amuses me on many levels. I love the slightly perverse pleasure Gandalf takes in making them wait, as well as the idea of him unashamedly stuffing his face. 'At last Gandalf pushed away his plate and jug - he had eaten two whole loaves (with masses of butter and honey and clotted cream) and drunk at least a quart of mead - and he took out his pipe. "I will answer the second question first," he said, '-but bless me! this is a splendid place for smoke rings!" Indeed for a long time they could get nothing more out of him, he was so busy sending smoke rings dodging round the pillars of the hall, changing them into all sorts of different shapes and colours, and setting them at last chasing one another out of the hole in the roof. They must have looked very queer from outside, popping out into the air one after another, green, blue, red, silver-grey, yellow, white; big ones, little ones; little ones dodging through big ones and joining into figure-eights, and going off into a flock into the distance.' From what I've seen of the Beorn's house set, it looks as if it would be a splendid place indeed for smoke-rings. I really, really hope they include this sequence.
"Hear me, hounds of Sauron, Gandalf is here! Fly if you value your foul skins, I will shrivel you from tail to snout if you step within this circle!"
"Do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends."
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