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Malveth
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Nov 9 2012, 4:25pm
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They were trained by Tolkien's text.
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Lacrimae Rerum
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Nov 9 2012, 4:27pm
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Where the letters get smaller as they go down the page.
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Lusitano
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Nov 9 2012, 5:11pm
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( opens a bottle, pours a glass of rather strong wine)
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Lissuin
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Nov 9 2012, 5:35pm
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And I'll take a glass of that stuff. Those goblins do look appropriately disgusting. Ugh, indeed.
But at least I'll have Rivendell. Cheers, SA!
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Lusitano
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Nov 9 2012, 5:43pm
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I felt our comrade could use a drink.  Here, have a glass of this six year old baby...
I think mashed potato goblin and cute coblin are fantastic.
New, different, fairytalish...ideal.
The Rivendell pic is quite lovely. Nice, soft arquitechture. And is it sundown or sunrise? Looks like sundown...guess the meeting shall be longer than expected.
Perhaps Radagast shall be brought in to answer for his animal brutality against hedgehogs 
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Malveth
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Nov 9 2012, 5:46pm
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I just have a natural loathing of Peter Jackson's style.
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Elenorflower
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Nov 9 2012, 6:16pm
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I made you a shopped version SA,
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As I agree about your comments about Rivendell. Hope you like it. 
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thomasofrohan
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Nov 9 2012, 6:32pm
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But I think Rivendell looks absolutely stunning in the trilogy (I sort of get the Kinkade comparison, but I think the brighter pastels in the trilogy work very well, and the world-class art team from the original films had more talent in the pinky finger of one of their members than Kinkade ever did), with truly incredible art direction and background work, so I guess I'm biased to prefer the original look. :}
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Lissuin
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Nov 9 2012, 6:39pm
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It seems Gothmog was just a teaser from those guys and gals at Weta. That's why the elves hide out in solitary splendour; Middle-earth is a scary, gross place at times! I'm glad you'll enjoy the goofy goblins, but it looks like I'll be sitting with my eyes shut a lot in this one, too. At least I've got the Shire and the Last Homely House to look forward to.
Radagast will be exonerated of hedgehog harming, mark my words.
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thomasofrohan
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Nov 9 2012, 6:40pm
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"Ugly"? So...they actually look like goblins who spend the majority of their time underground
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Wonderful! I guess the designs are effective if they made your stomach turn.
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Malveth
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Nov 9 2012, 6:44pm
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The whole ugly looking movie. Just about everything looks dreary and miserable to me. Jackson, who seems to be slightly colorblind, spares us the digital tinting (or "grading") and de-saturation of LotR's but compensates by loading the screen with monotonous, bland colors and ugly designs. Maybe I should amend and say I think the designs are stupid and bad? That might even be closer to my true opinion.
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Lusitano
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Nov 9 2012, 7:09pm
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I sense, form my one second peak at Brass Buttons, that goblin town will haunt me in my nightmares.
Be carefull indeed...many scary places...watch out for flying 3D Great Goblin poop
Lets hope he is! I suspect he already intends to overworked them at the battle of dol guldur...he ll show up with an army of sledgehogs, giant bunnies and butterflies
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Jago M
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Nov 9 2012, 7:12pm
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Actually I prefer your version
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:-)
but don't get me wrong: even though I didn't like the look of Rivendell, these pastels, the use of 'flou'-lighting, even unsharp sometimes, the 'kitsch' as SA calls it so elegantly ;)
it suits the place wonderfully so I couldn't bother
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LoremIpsum
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Nov 9 2012, 8:06pm
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I never liked Rivendell in the LOTR movies
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but this Rivendell looks a bit too much like a matte painting and Peter Jackson developed a strange fondness for salmon-y skies in his recent movies which is not really a look I terribly like.
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Elenorflower
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Nov 9 2012, 11:12pm
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Thomasofrohan well as I made the shopped version
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for SA, I hope you dont mind if I dont really care if you like it or not. 
heres the original.
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starlesswinter
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Nov 9 2012, 11:22pm
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Rivendell is beautiful! The architecture itself is gorgeously designed. Maybe the colors and trees give off the impression of a Thomas Kinkade painting, but really...how can an Elvish city in a valley NOT look like a Thomas Kinkade landscape? If it was actually a house as described in the book, it would look even more like Kinkade!
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starlesswinter
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Nov 9 2012, 11:28pm
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But we've only been shown the evil stuff so far! They're supposed to be ugly.
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Are trolls, wargs, goblins, and dwarves supposed to be pretty to look at? I'm sure once we get to see the inside of the Lonely Mountain, the Mirkwood Elves architecture, Dale, Laketown, etc....we'll get to see the pretty stuff.
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imin
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Nov 10 2012, 12:04am
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I prefer you image to the real one :) //
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Aitieuriskon
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Nov 10 2012, 12:11am
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Thanks for the link!
"After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear." Professor Tolkien, 1951
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Elenorflower
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Nov 10 2012, 12:30am
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thats very kind of you.
the sweet pinkness of the original photo was making me feel queasy.
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imin
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Nov 10 2012, 12:33am
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And that is exactly what was getting me queasy about the original! I'm hoping they colour grade it differently/looks different with 3D glasses on!
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Shelob'sAppetite
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Nov 10 2012, 4:01am
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I know you don't care if I don't like it, but do you care that I DO?
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You are a funny one.
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