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TheHutt
Gondor
Oct 27 2014, 12:29pm
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Poll: your feeling towards approaching BOTFA?
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What is your feeling about the fact that BOTFA is approaching?
[ ] I can't wait to see it! Gimme the trailer, gimme TV spots, gimme the film!
[ ] Once BOTFA hits theatres, it is actually over. No more films about Middle-Earth. I'd rather hold off this moment as long as I can.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Booklet - Custom Booklet Project
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BlackFox
Half-elven
Oct 27 2014, 12:39pm
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I fall somewhere in the middle
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Lot of mixed feelings. And I've been on this journey for a far shorter time than most of the people here; I can only imagine what those who've been watching this story unfold for years might be feeling.
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Fleuz
Lorien
Oct 27 2014, 12:40pm
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definitely the second.
Although I'm sure in a few years (10+) there will be some kind of ME spin-off regarding the Appendices. TV-Show or movie – I don't know.
But the anticipation for the next Hobbit-Movie is great.
After the Cine-Release there will only come the EE. Than it's over.
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Glorfindela
Valinor
Oct 27 2014, 12:44pm
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Missing category on your 'list'
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I'm actually much less enthusiastic about the forthcoming film than I was before seeing DoS on the basis of AUJ (which I loved). I am, in fact, rather indifferent towards it, due to my severe disappointment in DoS. I hope to enjoy it, but given what happened with DoS, my hopes are not high.
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Arannir
Valinor
Oct 27 2014, 12:47pm
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I am really, really excited but - right now - I enjoy the anticipation and do not want this to be over too quickly... so I am totally fine with the wait for both trailer and movie.
"I am afraid it is only too likely to be true what you say about the critics and the public. I am dreading the publication for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at." J.R.R. Tolkien
We all have our hearts and minds one way or another invested in these books and movies. So we all mind and should show the necessary respect.
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Noria
Gondor
Oct 27 2014, 12:56pm
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I am looking forward to the trailer, the other stuff and the movie itself but they will come when they come. The movie will arrive soon enough and then then there will only be the EE to look forward to. Right now, I'm enjoying the anticipation.
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Intergalactic Lawman
Rohan
Oct 27 2014, 1:08pm
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I couldn't care less... I don't think this train wreck can be fixed.
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Avandel
Half-elven
Oct 27 2014, 1:18pm
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#2.
 
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Elarie
Grey Havens
Oct 27 2014, 1:28pm
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Really looking forward to it, but sad that it's the last movie.
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and with hope
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Bofur01
Lorien
Oct 27 2014, 1:32pm
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So much pessimism around here :p
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Hanzkaz
Rohan
Oct 27 2014, 2:15pm
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- but it's really the EEs I'm waiting for.
I hope it's not the end of movie Middle-Earth, though, and hopefully there's something else being planned.
From the makers of 'The Lord of the Rings' comes the sequel to Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy -
'The War in the North, Part I : The Sword in the Tomb'.
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Cillendor
Lorien
Oct 27 2014, 2:48pm
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It's mixed for me, but I guess more of…
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[ ] I can't wait to see it! Gimme the trailer, gimme TV spots, gimme the film!
[X] Once BOTFA hits theatres, it is actually over. No more films about Middle-Earth. I'd rather hold off this moment as long as I can.
I sincerely hope we'll get that Ultra Extended Middle-earth Box Set in a few years. I will upgrade my meager "home theater" to blu-ray for that. As far as promos go, I cannot not watch a promo video or trailer if it is released, but then I always feel less satisfied by the final product because I already know a little of what is coming. So I would prefer to maybe get one more trailer and leave it at that. Actually, the trailer would be a good thing for drawing in new viewers.
I don't expect anything else from Middle-earth for a while. I mean it's too big of a cash cow to not eventually get something, but the next film I would personally like to see is The Children of Húrin—featuring Orcs that look similar to Azog and giving Túrin a knife that looks suspiciously similar to Sting. 
I'd love it if all three major stories from The Silmarillion receive films, but unless Christopher Tolkien has two more embellished novels awaiting publication, I think movies for Tinúviel and The Fall of Gondolin would be very hard to adapt. There is simply not enough detail in the published materials, IMHO.
If the entire Silmarillion were ever adapted, I would prefer it to be done in a cartoon style similar to Star Wars: Clone Wars, but more realistic-looking. The style used in that show allowed for little dialog, which could make it easier to show things like the crossing of the Helcaraxë and the migrations of the Edain. It would also allow the writers to get creative with the movements without needing to invent a lot of dialog. They would have more freedom to simply show what happens instead of having characters talk about it. Live-action films require dialog because real people talk to each other, and a live-action silent film would not compel an audience large enough to justify the cost of filming such an epic novel. But with an animated show, it would cost a lot less and give them more freedom to follow the book as it's written.
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Eruvandi
Tol Eressea
Oct 27 2014, 3:04pm
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I've only been a Tolkien fan and a member of TORn for a little over a year now. While I'm excited for BotFA, I also want to savor what little time there is left before it's "over". Sometimes I wish I would have become a fan sooner so I could have enjoyed it longer, but at the same time I know why I didn't. (I was a sensitive kid. The violence and the creepy critters would have bothered me when I was younger. )
I don't really think this will be the last ME stuff we get to see on-screen EVER, but it'll probably be a good while before anyone decides to do a LOTR remake or the rights to the Silm get released, if they ever get released. But who knows? Maybe someone will decide to do a tv show or a movie on the stuff still left in the appendices that hasn't been fleshed out yet. Or even a tv show on LOTR itself, and they'll have time to include stuff that got left out in the movies. By now there's been several generations of young, aspiring directors who have had time to grow up on LOTR who might just have gumption to take on a challenge like that, and if they do, I'll be the first one telling them to GO FOR IT!
All of that said, I'd much rather look on the bright side of things and look forward to BotFA and the BotFA EE and all the movie tie-in material that's still coming than be sad that after December it'll all be "over."
"Home is behind the world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow to the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight.
Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall fade"
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Elanor of Rohan
Lorien
Oct 27 2014, 3:28pm
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I have been a Tolkien fan for 13 years now, and even if I did not particularly expect a Hobbit film, I periodically rewatched the films during the hiatus years between the two projects.
I am enjoying these moments just because they will be the last moments of waiting and I love the possibility of expressing and sharing opinions and feelings...
I want to stay positive, no mixed feelings.
I am more worried about the actual viewing of BOFA for the first time with all its tragedy.
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architecthis
Lorien
Oct 27 2014, 3:36pm
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Thats my feeling. Get this last film out of the way so we can move on to a new director with a new vision.
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arithmancer
Grey Havens
Oct 27 2014, 4:01pm
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Put me in the camp of eager anticipators. I'm looking forward to the trailer, checking the news here regularly, and could not resist the electronic version of the EE (though I think I will still buy the BluRay. Or maybe someone will get it for me for Christmas...)
While it will be sad that there are no more Middle Earth movies to look forward to in the immediate future, I would not want to delay seeing the last one at all! I will just have to make do with other films...
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dubulous
Rohan
Oct 27 2014, 4:02pm
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I can't wait for it but at the same time I don't want it all to come to an end. I think that will hit me harder once the movie has actually been released though. Right now I just really want to see a full length trailer and can't wait to see the movie.
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dormouse
Half-elven
Oct 27 2014, 4:12pm
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I'm longing to see the film and am making the most of every moment, every new step in the build-up to the film's release. And at the same time I don't want it ever to come, because I don't want this time to end.
It's been an amazing ride. I've known and loved the books since the 1960s and for most of that time Tolkien was treated as an adolescent fad - you were supposed to grow out of it, or at least, that's what the critical world seemed to think. Thankfully my brother loved the books, he got me started, but there weren't many people I knew who did. I first discovered that there were going to be Lord of the Rings films a few months before Fellowship came out and my first reaction was - well, underwhelmed. But I loved them. I'll always be a book person first, but I think the films have played a worthwhile part in levering Middle Earth out of the critical wilderness and making Tolkien's books something more people talk about and share - and I've enjoyed every minute of it!
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cats16
Half-elven
Oct 27 2014, 10:20pm
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I'm trying to balance the desire to see the finished product with some preservation of the feeling that we're still here, waiting for more films to come out. It's a tough balance to find, and with every poster/trailer release I feel the end coming closer and closer to our doorstep.
Join us every weekend in the Hobbit movie forum for this week's CHOW (Chapter of the Week) discussion!
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FernysApple
Bree
Oct 27 2014, 11:17pm
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its going to be a bit embarrassing come Oscar night.
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Bard'sBlackArrow
Lorien
Oct 27 2014, 11:40pm
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Will have to digest DoS EE in full...only doing that in bits and pieces these last few days.
Outside of Tauriel, I quite enjoyed DoS, so I expect the same to be true for BoT5A.
... on the other side of tomorrow...
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Rohan
Oct 28 2014, 2:16am
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[can' wait] for the theatrical version. [over] for the EE next year. //
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