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The Grey Elf
Hithlum
Aug 2 2012, 2:48am
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How many meals will the company of dwarves sit down to during the course of their adventure? We've been given a good indication of their manners (or should I say lack of?). But there's also the Rivendell bistro we got a glimpse of in vlog #8, Beorn's spread of milk and honey and the company is also feted in Laketown by the Mayor, too, aren't they? It seems like there are many more gatherings at table in the Hobbit than in all of LOTR. I wonder what Peter will do with these scenes which are supposed to be a bear to film (no pun intended, Beorn!). And will anyone be serving salted pork???
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SaltedPork
Nevrast
Aug 2 2012, 2:55am
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Please do not serve me to the hungry dwarves...
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I want to survive to see the films.
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Shelob'sAppetite
Doriath
Aug 2 2012, 4:24am
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Why would these be a bear to film?
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There are thousands of movies that feature people eating and talking at dinner tables.
Why should it be difficult in this case?
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There&ThereAgain
Nargothrond
Aug 2 2012, 5:57am
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is a focus on the food the characters eat. I mean really Tolkien's descriptions of food and characters enjoying food are some of the most enjoyable passages in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
JK Rowling, Phillip Pullman and CS Lewis himself also have lots of great food moments in their fantasy stories as well.
well, now I'm hungry. 
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Thanks for the money!" -George Lucas
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DanielLB
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Aug 2 2012, 6:58am
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A scene involving just a couple eating is emabrassing enough if cups change between hands etc.
Times that by 13, all sitting round a table, with masses of food - I expect the OP means lots of continuity mistakes.
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There&ThereAgain
Nargothrond
Aug 2 2012, 7:12am
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apparently kept moving all the tableware inbetween takes/shots in A Clockwork Orange to unnerve the audience in a subtle way.
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Thanks for the money!" -George Lucas
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The Grey Elf
Hithlum
Aug 2 2012, 10:32am
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SA, In Answer to Your Question
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As I understand it, it's not the actors eating so much as it is how time consuming (again, no pun intended) it is to shoot so many perspectives. PJ comments on this in the bonus features for FOTR about shooting Elrond's conference which did not include any munchies -- unless you count Boromir and his plate of crow!
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Ruinwen
Ossiriand
Aug 2 2012, 9:27pm
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I reckon the scaling is something that would also make it more complicated to film - for example in FOTR the scene at the table with Bilbo and Gandalf where they had to forced perspective, rotating tables all sorts of things to make them look right. Shooting from multiple angles would make it even more time-consuming. Any scenes including dwarves and humans would encounter the same difficulties. Still, I can't see PJ shying away from a scene just because it's difficult; he seems to delight in that kind of thing.
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