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badgermaniac
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Apr 25 2008, 3:10am
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Went back a couple months and didn't see this discussed, though I can't imagine that it wasn't (so if there is another thread, please direct me).
Anyhow, what exactly will be covered in the sequel to the Hobbit? Will a lot of stuff need to be fabricated? Knowing Tolkien, I presume there is a lot of backstory in some appendix someplace that I am unfamiliar with.
So, what will be the basic storyline of the movie that comes AFTER The Hobbit?
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badgermaniac
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Apr 25 2008, 3:14am
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Correct...the appendix that is not terribly readable to many of the commonfolk fans...which is why I am asking here.
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Silverlode
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Apr 25 2008, 3:20am
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If you want to read our previous speculation on the topic, do a search for "bridge movie" and you should find what you're looking for.
But really, we just don't know anything. We're not even sure what background material is legal for them to use. The filmmakers have the rights to LOTR, but not to The Silmarillion or the History of Middle-earth (HOME) books, which is where much of the information about what happened in those "in between" years is found. We don't know how strict the Tolkien Estate is going to be on using details from those books to flesh out things listed in the Tale of Years Appendix to LOTR, for instance.
If they're able to use some of that material, there are several plot lines they could go with. Many of us would like to see the White Council, and perhaps more of Aragorn and Arwen's story. There could be more about the Lonely Mountain dwarves and Balin's move to Moria, or Gollum's wanderings.
If they're restricted to only what is mentioned in LOTR and its Appendices, then they may have to invent a lot of story elements, which would mean the second movie would be more of a fanfic than anything else.
Your guess is as good as anyone else's, until somebody drops us some hints.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Apr 25 2008, 3:39am
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It's not in my copy of "El Retorno Del Rey" They only included a small part of Appendix A, the part about Aragorn and Arwen. But you're right, it is pretty widely available ;-)
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Altaira
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Apr 25 2008, 3:43am
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A reply to a similar query on Main. Our "Search Posts" function (see Ring icon at the top of the page), is very robust. I searched on "Hobbit Sequel" and got over 200 results!
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Apr 25 2008, 3:49am
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of the drinking game ? ;-)
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leo
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Apr 25 2008, 2:14pm
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I'm going to put my money on...
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... a Gandalf-centered story. If you are going to do a bridge-movie covering 50-or so years, you need at least one central character the audience can follow and relate to. It can only be Gandalf, he was very active in those days ;)
I guess maybe the movie will pick up with gandalf leaving Thorin and company to scare away Sauron from Mirkwood, and then continue on following him here and there. And then the movie should end with Gandalf riding his horse and wagon into Hobbiton. Gandalf was, to me, the most important character next to Frodo in LOTR and Bilbo in The Hobbit, it is only fair that he gets his own movie. So basically another journey movie, should be great fun!
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Peredhil lover
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Apr 25 2008, 2:20pm
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And in the German paperback edition
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it is the same, I think, or there are none at all; these were released in a separate book. (Or at least in the most popular edition - didn't check all these new prints with movie pictures on the cover that were released because of the movies, though I doubt they had the appendices). In the hardcover edition, however, the appendices are included.
I do not suffer from LotR obsession - I enjoy every minute of it.
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acheron
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Apr 25 2008, 2:51pm
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The first copy of LOTR I ever read was one that my dad picked up in England in the 70's; a one-volume paperback. It also only had "Aragorn & Arwen", and none of the other appendices.
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Apr 25 2008, 11:26pm
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I know we're not actually *in* the Fiesta bar, but who cares when another staffer returns to the boards?
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Elizabeth
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Apr 26 2008, 4:13am
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Correct...the appendix that is not terribly readable to many of the commonfolk fans...which is why I am asking here.
Appendices A and B, at least, are marvelous!
A gives all the back-story about the Rohirrim and about the dwarves, the history of Gondor (how Osgiliath was lost, and why there is no king there), and (most people's favorite) the story of Aragorn and Arwen.
Appendix B gives some timelines, which are fascinating. In the books (TTT and RotK in particular) there are several plot threads running concurrently in time -- the timeline shows you what was happening when. You can see, for example, that while the hobbits are on their way to Bree, Gandalf is trying desperately to catch them. The night they spend at the Prancing Pony, Gandalf had reached Hobbiton and was visiting The Gaffer. Even more dramatically, when Frodo was captive in Cirith Ungol was the same time that Faramir was brought in wounded, Denethor looked in the Palantir and subsequently lost his mind. It seems probable that he saw Frodo in captivity, and assumed Sauron had the Ring, which drove him to suicidal despair.
I'll admit that some of the Appendices on language, calendars, etc., are heavy going, but Appendices A and B are terrific.
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mae govannen
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Apr 26 2008, 4:15pm
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I like your Gandalf-centered plot!...
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as long as we have a lot of Aragorn-Arwen story too, and a lot of Galadriel as well, in the White Council and all...
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(Sam, 'The Field of Cormallen', in 'The Return of the King'.)
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