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DemoElite
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Oct 11 2012, 11:07pm
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Stone Giant Smackdown
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I noticed in the new trailer that a stone giant is falling underneath the dwarves. At first glance, it seems like an avalanche but there is a stone giant outline there. I am sure the movie will take on its own nature and add much more than we read in the book. Are the dwarves in the midst of a battle royale? Thoughts?
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Bombadil
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Oct 11 2012, 11:18pm
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"When he peeped out in the ligthening flashes, he saw.."
SO in one beautiful Tolkien sentence
We get 2 minutes of Terror on Screen.
It's sorta MondayNight Footbal
for these fellows and the Dwarves?
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Valandil ed Imladris
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Oct 11 2012, 11:21pm
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I hope the stone giants fight each other
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and not the company, because they are not supposed to be plain evil!
But yes, PJ is expanding the scene and is making another menace for the company. For me, it works, adding some danger along the way for the first film.
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Lacrimae Rerum
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Oct 11 2012, 11:25pm
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Well it was a danger to the company in the text
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So I'm not sure that aspect is an addition.
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There&ThereAgain
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Oct 11 2012, 11:27pm
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is the middle to latter half of AUJ then I definitely see the journey between rivendell and goblin-town to be greatly expanded.
Those Stone Giants look wonderful.
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Valandil ed Imladris
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Oct 11 2012, 11:29pm
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I just read the chapter yesterday
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and they realize that there are giants playing ball with each other and Tolkien mentions that Gandalf looks worried, something like that. But nothing happens, and soon afterwards they are entering the cave, so it's not a danger for a long time in the book.
There's also a line after they escape goblin town, where Gandalf says he'll be looking for a decent giant later that could smash the entrance of goblin town, so that the passage might be save again :D
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 11 2012, 11:36pm
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Kind of agreed. The notion that everything in the time of Middle-Earth is
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either primarily good or primarily evil, with no inbetween, is bothersome and not properly representative. Lacrimae is right that they were a danger to the company, but they were an incidental and amoral danger, rather like the storm itself, not a hostile and malicious, evil danger like The Nazgul, or The Balrog, The Barrow Wights or even Old Man Willow. The giants were out amuzing themselves, not looking to kill Dwarves. If some dwarves got in the way and got themselves done in, oh well. But that wasn't the giants agenda. and not the company, because they are not supposed to be plain evil!
But yes, PJ is expanding the scene and is making another menace for the company. For me, it works, adding some danger along the way for the first film.
"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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Eye's on Guard
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Oct 11 2012, 11:40pm
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Pre-Rivendell is longer than we think. Location filming included scenes from outskirts of Hobbiton, Bywater countryside, outskirts of Bree, Farthing Countryside/Weatherhills, and Lonelands even before Trollshaw Forest. It could just be to fill in the geographical gap but I think there might be more going on here. It'd be nice if there was a lot of individual character establishment along the way before the Trollshaws.
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Valandil ed Imladris
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Oct 11 2012, 11:43pm
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character development is always fine
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especially when there are thirteen (unknown) dwarves to the audience!
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Lacrimae Rerum
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Oct 11 2012, 11:52pm
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Just pointing out that it was still dangerous enough for even Gandalf to be a bit worried and for them to be relieved to find shelter from it.
Occasionally it is described here as if the company were just watching them in the distance without concern, so it seemed worth plucking out that the company feeling in danger, in contrast, is a more straightforward interpretation.
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Oct 12 2012, 5:08am
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I got the distinct impression that Gandalf and company wanted to avoid attracting the attention of the giants because one of the giants might decide to pick up a dwarf and drop-kick him. I suppose it could be considered an "amoral" danger, but it felt to me like something more than walking through a lightning storm. More like an ant walking by a kid with a magnifying glass at high noon.
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AinurOlorin
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Oct 12 2012, 5:53am
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And agreed, but again, dangerous in the way that being out in the middle of a terrible storm, or climbing up the side of a mountain is dangerous, as opposed to being pursued by bloodthirsty villains bent on your ruin. Just pointing out that it was still dangerous enough for even Gandalf to be a bit worried and for them to be relieved to find shelter from it.
Occasionally it is described here as if the company were just watching them in the distance without concern, so it seemed worth plucking out that the company feeling in danger, in contrast, is a more straightforward interpretation.
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"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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Fardragon
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Oct 12 2012, 7:54am
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The stone giants are a personification of natural dangers
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In this case, being up a mountain in a storm.
Principally the danger is being hit by a boulder (avalanche).
Compare to Scylla and Charybdis in the Odyssey.
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Fardragon
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Oct 12 2012, 8:10am
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In this case, they make the danger more immediate and spectacular than
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"we better hide out in a cave in case of avalanche".
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Fardragon
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Oct 12 2012, 8:42am
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Given that his cousin is an ace brain surgeon
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You would have thought he would have had that out...
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Earl
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Oct 12 2012, 8:48am
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Even the rocks and stones in Middle-earth are hinted at as being sentient...
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... I don't have the exact quote, but in FOTR, Legolas says something to the effect that the rocks and stones in Hollin still recall the Elves of Eregion.
It's not too far fetched to believe that the Maiar and other lesser spirits who entered the world at the beginning of time took such forms.
The stone giants should make for a nice visual to back Bilbo's statement that "Middle-earth is, after all, full of strange creatures beyond count." 
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DanielLB
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Oct 12 2012, 9:30am
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'That is true,' said Legolas. `But the Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the silvan folk, and the trees and the grass do not now remember them: Only I hear the stones lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone. They are gone. They sought the Havens long ago.'
The Ring Goes South
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Earl
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Oct 12 2012, 9:36am
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Yes, that's the line I was talking about. It really sounds (to me anyway) that the stones in that region were more alive, so to speak, just like some of the "trees" in certain other regions.
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DanielLB
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Oct 12 2012, 9:58am
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I think the stones have an after-memory of the Elves, but I don't think they sit there talking to each other.
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Hamfast Gamgee
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Oct 12 2012, 10:51am
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One stone-giant is about to hurl a huge rock at the party. One huge enough to knock them all of the mountain to their deaths in the valley below. However, just before he does, he is tackled by a fellow giant, drops the boulder, and they both fall down the mountain laughing. Unwittingly, one Stone-Giant has just saved the entire quest.
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Fardragon
Nargothrond
Oct 12 2012, 12:48pm
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A Far Dragon is the best kind...
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In the Book..page 57
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