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burgahobbit
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Sep 1 2012, 1:44pm
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as in fog, dog, log...But I have also been trying to get into the practice of saying "Smowg".
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dernwyn
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Sep 1 2012, 1:45pm
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What's even funnier, "dos" is Spanish for "two".
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Coincidence?
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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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burgahobbit
Nargothrond
Sep 1 2012, 1:47pm
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But also at the end of ROTK, one of Bilbo's original titles for his journal was "My Unexpected Journey".
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DanielLB
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Sep 1 2012, 1:50pm
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Understood now - though still not sure how one would spell it phonetically. Sounds more accurate than Smorg.
Does anyone else say a word too many times and it just sound weird after a while? Well, I've said Smaug too much today - it just sounds weird now. 
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burgahobbit
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Sep 1 2012, 1:52pm
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With pretty much everything you said! But although another December film would be great, the summer release let's us see it faster!! 
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burgahobbit
Nargothrond
Sep 1 2012, 1:53pm
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I never noticed that before!
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Elessar
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Sep 1 2012, 2:04pm
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All three titles work great to me. They feel right and tell you what's going to happen. They're also similar to how the titles for lotr were done in brook/movies. The titles just feel like middle-earth and I can wait to go back into the movie verse while I'm reading the books again. :)
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geordie
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Sep 1 2012, 3:18pm
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"Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, added, “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” will be an action spectacle and an emotional conclusion for this already much-anticipated trilogy.'"
I thought pJ's films wern't supposed to be 'action movies' ?
*BTW - unless I'm going mad, this quote was in the piece linked to in the OP. But now I can't find it. The bit i've cut and pasted from is from another website, here -
http://nukethefridge.com/2012/08/31/third-hobbit-movie-release-date-and-title-announced/
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dormouse
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Sep 1 2012, 4:17pm
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Maybe you're not the one to ask, geordie...
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...but can you or can anyone tell what on earth "Opening in the summer will maximise playability" is supposed to mean??? 
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Estel78
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Sep 1 2012, 4:23pm
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They ain't action movies like Die Hard.
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But they contain action, so nothing wrong with pointing that out.
What caught my eye rather was "emotional". Sounds good. 
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Kangi Ska
Gondolin
Sep 1 2012, 4:27pm
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Maybe "an action spectacle" is different from an action movie...
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Kangi Ska Resident Trickster & Wicked White Crebain
Life is an adventure, not a contest.
At night you can not tell if crows are black or white.
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HiddenSpring
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Sep 1 2012, 4:29pm
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Personally I would have preferred 'The Desolation of the Dragon'. We all know 'The Lord of the Rings' means Sauron, 'The Hobbit' means Bilbo and that the King in 'RotK' refers to Aragorn, but no name had been made explicit before. Then again, maybe expliciting his name is a nice demonstration of his narcissism.
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DanielLB
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Sep 1 2012, 4:32pm
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I don't/didn't think the King in ROTK is/was too obvious
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When I first begun reading The Fellowship of the Ring (I would have been 10(ish)), I thought The Return of the King meant Sauron. That was for the first couple of chapters, mind. . Aragorn hadn't been introduced, and neither do you find out about his true identity for a while. Why would one think differently?
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Aragorn the Elfstone
Dor-Lomin
Sep 1 2012, 4:34pm
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You're talking about a quote...
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from a Warner Brothers suit. It shouldn't surprise anyone that they'll highlight the action of the film in a press release. That's just what they do.
"All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to find that it was vanity; But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible."
- T.E. Lawrence
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HiddenSpring
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Sep 1 2012, 4:37pm
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I also thought it meant Sauron at first. That's why "The Return of the King" is a better title than "The Return of Aragorn" or "The Return of King Elessar"
And I just think the word "dragon" is more evocative and whimsical than "Smaug" (it sounds too much like "smog" to my foreign self.)
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Captain Salt
Dor-Lomin
Sep 1 2012, 4:41pm
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Not really keen at all on the second title...
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It really interrupts the "flow" between AUJ and TABA, and sounds more fitting for a cheesy 80's "Conan the Barbarian"-style romp than the epic which PJ is apparently attempting to create...we'll see, however. IMO, a better trio of titles would have been:
An Unexpected Journey
The Lonely Mountain
There and Back Again
My Top 5 Wish List for "The Hobbit"
5. Legolas will surf down Smaug's neck
4. Bilbo will be revealed to a Robot
3. Naked PJ cameo as Ghan-Buri-Ghan
2. Use of not only 3D, but smell-o-vision, plus the inclusion of axes coming out of the seats and poking the audience when appropriate
1. Not only keep the claim that Thorin & Co. ran amok in Mirkwood "molesting people", but depict said incident in vivid detail!!!!!
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DanielLB
Elvenhome
Sep 1 2012, 4:41pm
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The Desolation of the Dragon would make more sense
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Rather than explicitly naming Smaug, but it's a bit of a mouthful.
How about, The Ravage of the Dragon
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Estel78
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Sep 1 2012, 4:48pm
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Someone who agrees with me! :) //
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duats
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Sep 1 2012, 5:00pm
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X-Men fans are going nuts over this
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SteveDJ
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Sep 1 2012, 5:06pm
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Carne
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Sep 1 2012, 5:09pm
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Because the next X-Men movie and the 3rd Hobbit movie both premiere on the same day
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Which means one of them will earn less money at the box office, and I think we know which one that will be 
Fox are probably terrified now. Bet they're going to delay the movie.
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duats
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Sep 1 2012, 5:11pm
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It's more likely that one of the films will move
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There isn't a snowball's chance in hell of these two movies keeping the same release date. Someone's going to move (and I think we have a pretty good idea of which one that will be).
Hence, X-Men fans are furious.
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macfalk
Doriath
Sep 1 2012, 5:14pm
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I just wish The Hobbit would move.
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To christmas. It's such a nice tradition with Tolkien movies at Christmas. Why ruin in that in what looks like the last Tolkien movie in our lifetime (well, almost. Cause I don't think Silmarillion will be filmed anytime soon... )
I would gladly wait those 5 extra months just to see it premiere on Christmas. Releasing the last movie just 6 months after the former isn't a good idea, either.
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
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SteveDJ
Ossiriand
Sep 1 2012, 5:16pm
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At least the first film's title didn't change -- because they couldn't...
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I just opened my LEGO Helm's Deep kit this morning, and while looking at the instruction booklets, noticed a page talking about LEGO Hobbit. At the bottom, lots of legal-ese about how "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is trademarked and all that.
So it occurs to me that at the very least, the first movie's title is now Cast In Stone, so to speak. Any/All companies that have licensed use of The Hobbit in upcoming products would be very unhappy if they had to change things on their packaging -- which is probably already in full production for holiday sales.
... well, ok... this is just my theory ... but I'm sticking with it for now...
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