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DeadRabbits
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Sep 23 2012, 1:12pm
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Khamûl at Dol Guldur?
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We know that the ringwraiths most likely will be featured in these movies somehow - could this mean that they will be present at Dol Guldur and that Sauron will reveal his second deadliest servant? After all, Khamûl was the lieutenant of Dol Guldur, wasn't he?
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Danielos
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Sep 23 2012, 1:33pm
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Khamûl is not a name used in either The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings. So PJ can´t distinguish that ringwraith!
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DeadRabbits
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Sep 23 2012, 1:47pm
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... if Tolkien Estate can claim the rights to the name Khamûl, since the character obviously is in the LoTR books (he was the ringwraith that pursued the hobbits to the Bucklebury ferry, if I'm not mistaken).
Now now Bill, you swore this was a battle between warriors, not a bunch of miss nancies, so warriors is what I brought
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Sinister71
Dor-Lomin

Sep 23 2012, 1:54pm
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I'm sure the wraiths will be shown but hopefully their screen time is minimal and they don't need to go onto too much detail about them. Show them back from their tombs and move on that's my opinion
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Elutherian
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Sep 23 2012, 2:02pm
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...and it's unfortunate. Khamul is a really cool name and a really scary character. But it would be too repetitive of The Witch King to distinguish him in the films.
The Grey Pilgrim, they once called me. Three hundred lives of men I walked this earth, and now I have no time...
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GoodGuyA
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Sep 23 2012, 3:17pm
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Wait, this reminded me of something
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Remember in Vlog 7 where Alan Lee and John Howe show a little montage of their work? I think it's Alan who you can see in a make-up chair with a long wavey wig. Wasn't he also one of the Nine Kings of Men in the prologue? Does this imply that they will again appear as in those forms? Somebody find a photo and point out who's cameoing!
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Sinister71
Dor-Lomin

Sep 23 2012, 3:23pm
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Could be a cameo simply unrelated
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They had multiple cameos in all the LOTR films. So I'm hoping its nothing to do with the 9
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Shelob'sAppetite
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Sep 23 2012, 3:37pm
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Though not in name... In the new trailer, I do hear what sounds like a Ringwraith screech during what seems to be the Gandalf/ Dol Guldur scene...
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Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome

Sep 23 2012, 3:54pm
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Do Ring-wraiths think much about their past lives?
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I get the impression that Sauron preferred his servants to not dwell on their pasts. That could lessen his control over them, which he would not have tolerated. I doubt that he often used their proper names.
'Thus spake Ioreth, wise-woman of Gondor: The hands of the king are the hands of a healer, and so shall the rightful king be known.' - Gandalf the White
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Amusings
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Sep 23 2012, 3:56pm
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Gandalf's shock at hearing Saruman reference the nine in Fellowship of the Ring could justify there being some interaction and encounter with them in the Hobbit movies. Though as with Sauron I can't see this being in the first movie by any means, it would be pushing too much Sauron-LOTR material in at the forefront of this trilogy where it will be more prudent in the second and third films.
Trailer breakdown for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey now live! http://www.wtfoosh.blogspot.co.uk/...09/test-article.html
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Sinister71
Dor-Lomin

Sep 23 2012, 4:04pm
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ring wraiths being released from Tombs in the Hobbit films somewhere. which we all know contradicts PJ's own scene in FOTR where Gandalf seems surprised to hear of their return. Only option might be Radagast doesn't get a chance to tell Gandalf about them, or Peter Jackson isn't worrying about continuity with his previous films...We'll just have to wait until December to find out which it is.
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Amusings
Lindon

Sep 23 2012, 4:06pm
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I always interpreted Gandalf's shocked 'the nine?!' as being an 'oh no they're on the case and getting involved' as opposed to it being the first he knows of their return. Particularly seeing as the Ringwraiths direct ties to the ring, him realising it is the one ring and then hearing they have left Minas Morgul in pursuit of it was what registered the shock... that's how I saw it at least.
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Kangi Ska
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Sep 23 2012, 4:09pm
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I agree with your interpretation of Gandalf's reaction to news of The Nine.//
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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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Lacrimae Rerum
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Sep 23 2012, 4:12pm
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That they have left Minas Morgul. I don't think that he is "surprised to hear of their return" as you put it - return from where? The transcript is as follows: SARUMAN The hour is later than you think. Sauron's forces are already moving. The Nine have left Minas Mordor. GANDALF The Nine? SARUMAN They crossed the river Isen on midsummer's eve, disguised as riders in black. GANDALF They have reached the Shire! SARUMAN They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it. GANDALF Frodo! I don't see any continuity issue here. LR
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Sinister71
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Sep 23 2012, 4:18pm
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to me always meant he didn't realize they were out and about... I'm sure he knew they were at Minas Morgul. But to here they left or were active again just seemed to be a surprise to him IMO I never like the whole Tombs nonsense anyways since its all made up by PJ anyways from vague notes
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Amusings
Lindon

Sep 23 2012, 4:18pm
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Hoping the above post wasn't in response to mine as I completely agree and have said in a previous post I believe the shock was that they have left Minas Morgul and are on the pursuit.
Trailer breakdown for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey now live! http://www.wtfoosh.blogspot.co.uk/...09/test-article.html
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Lacrimae Rerum
Hithlum
Sep 23 2012, 4:27pm
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Absolutely - so no continuity issue. We all seem to be in agreement.
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Captain Salt
Dor-Lomin

Sep 23 2012, 5:00pm
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Couldn't they just call him "Khandar the Easterling" or something?
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And say it's a "new character"...? That'd be one way of avoiding legal repercussions. Anyway, I'd like to see him in the Necromancer storyline somewhere.
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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Milknut
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Sep 23 2012, 5:51pm
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There are 60 or so years in between.
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Plenty of time for Gandalf to get used to the idea that the nine are not riding about.
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Elessar
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Sep 23 2012, 5:59pm
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I always took it like he was thinking "oh crap now we've got to deal with them."
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Reptile
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Sep 23 2012, 6:10pm
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I keep wondering whether Gandalf will be confronting Thoror as a wraith, or something in between a dwarf and a ring wraith. He did have a ring, right? So wouldn't that be a logical scenario?
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Kangi Ska
Gondolin

Sep 23 2012, 8:02pm
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The Dwarven rings did not bring about Wraithing.//
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Kangi Ska
Gondolin

Sep 23 2012, 8:03pm
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I think he was just out of his mind and not a Wraith.
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It would be a big departure from Tolkien.
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