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Odo Proudfoot
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Dec 29 2007, 2:50pm
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My Hobbit cast
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Would be as follows:
Bilbo: Martin Freeman
Gandalf: Ian McKellen
Thorin: Brian Blessed
Bard: Christian Bale
Beorn: Brendan Gleeson
Balin: James Cosmo
Gloin: Jim Carter
Bombur: Johnny Vegas
Thranduil: Paul Bettany
Legolas: Orlando Bloom
Elrond: Hugo Weaving
Arwen: Liv Tyler
Galadriel: Cate Blanchett
Saruman: Christopher Lee
Gollum: Andy Serkis
Smaug (voice): Ronald Pickup (voiced Aslan in the BBC Narnia Series, much more growly and effective than Liam Neeson IMO)
Trolls: Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
Old Bilbo/Narrator: Ian Holm
Any takers?
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carrioncrow
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Dec 29 2007, 2:59pm
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I'd take that. I like the look of that Balin guy...perhaps he's not quite "odd-looking" enough...(maybe we'll give him an eye patch or something  )
I think if they have a narrator wrap around, it will be Sam Gamgee, which I guess would mean Sean Astin..which really doesn't excite me much.
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Woodyend
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Dec 29 2007, 4:10pm
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If they try and foist Arwen into the Hobbit films again, I may throw up in my popcorn. In a cameo I can see that, but that's all.
Brendan Gleeson is one of those character actors who is a true chameleon. He would do a good job of any of the parts open in The Hobbit.
I also like your narration being done by Ian Holm.
May your beer be laid under an enchantment of surpassing excellence for seven years!
~~~~~~~~Gandalf~~~~~~~
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
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Magpie
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Dec 29 2007, 4:32pm
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this probably could have gone in the thread just below about casting
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the boards are slow in December, but come the New Year, I'm hoping we can consolidate some of these Hobbit threads so they don't overwhelm the other discussions in this section of the forum.
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entmaiden
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Dec 30 2007, 1:57am
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you've also posted this on Main. We try to keep from double-posting.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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Elizabeth
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Dec 30 2007, 2:36am
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He wasn't even born yet. I love Sean Astin, but there's no part for him in this movie.
Ian Holm, as "Old Bilbo" should narrate, IMO.
Son of Elizabeth in Frodo's tree
March, 2007
Elizabeth is the TORnsib formerly known as 'erather'
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Tim
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Dec 30 2007, 3:24am
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I think Paul Bettany would be excellent, though he may have to pitch his voice or something.
So, where are we going?
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AinurOlorin
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Dec 30 2007, 9:09am
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Gandalf: Ian Mckellen
Saruman: Christopher Lee
Elrond, Galadriel, Legolas, Gimli and Gollum: all the same as in LOTR, Hugo, Kate, Orlando, JRD, and Andy
Thranduil: DAVID BOWIE. period
Beorn: Lawrence Fishburne! (who would be both perfect for the role, and appease every minority completely ignored in the first films)
Glorfindel (who had better be at the council, after the scandalous way he was ejected from the LOTR films) Definitely Jude Law or Jonathan Rhys-Meyers from The Tudors. Either would be PERFECT! And Glorfindel must have at least as big a role as Haldir did in LOTR.
Smaug: If not James Earl Jones, James Avery (perfect) or Geoffry Holder
Bard: Liam Neisen. Or Armand Assanti.
All above are die hard picks for me. I see them with such clarion vision its as if they had already been filmed in the roles.
Bilbo: Not certain. Though someone mentioned Paul Giannetti, and when you consider Gloin's "As soon as I saw this funny little fellow bobbing on the matt " It does kinda fit. Bilbo is pure comic relief for the first quarter of The Hobbit.
"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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Tim
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Dec 31 2007, 2:10am
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Two threads are better than none ;-)
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Well I'll say it in both threads, Bowie wouldn't kill me, but Gary Oldman... hmmmmmmmmmm. Very interesting.
AinurOlorin - no disrespect intended. Based on what you've wrote so far I think you and I are going to be agreeing far more than disagreeing.
Great, where are we going?
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AinurOlorin
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Dec 31 2007, 10:32am
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Oldman wouldn't work to my mind
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Bowie already looks like a hale and venerable Elf King. Oldman has the acting talent but NOT the look. I thought him not properly handsome to play Sirius Black, and so wrong for a fair elf monarch,.
"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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Nimloth
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Jan 4 2008, 4:25am
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Bowie already looks like a hale and venerable Elf King. Oldman has the acting talent but NOT the look. I thought him not properly handsome to play Sirius Black, and so wrong for a fair elf monarch,.
Bowie works for me.
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Lunamoth
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Jan 4 2008, 7:19pm
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I'm sorry guys, but while David Bowie may have been lovely to look at 20 years back, he just doesn't fit the image of Thranduil now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:David_Bowie.jpg
He's over 60 and is looking over 60 these days. Bless him.
If Hugo Weaving looked too aged to play Elrond (as some have suggested), David Bowie certainly doesn't look any younger, IMO.
My vote's for Jude Law on that one. Or an unknown who could use the exposure. :)
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 4 2008, 9:55pm
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They are likely going to do a middle aged look for Thranduil, as they did for Elrond
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In part to make him more viable to Non-Readers as Legolas' father, and I am willing to bet a few that Legolas will have a cameo. I've seen Bowie recently, and unlike the Stones, some of whom have looked well over a thousand for years, he really doesn't look so old. When he's done up and ready to roll, he could pass for 40, and is still a handsome man, and a fit one. I did not think Weaving looked too old as Elrond (though he well may if too many insist on waiting around for Jackson to direct), and I think the same can be said of Bowie for Thranduil. I maintain that he would be perfect for the role. As to Jude Law, his job is to play Glorfindel (or better be) for whom he is particularly well suited.
"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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Lunamoth
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Jan 4 2008, 10:06pm
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I think we'll continue to disagree
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I can't find myself agreeing that Bowie can ever look 40 again. Many of my friends are 40 or approaching it. They look considerably younger than Mr. Bowie.
It's sort of like my girlfriends who seem to be attacted to Sean Connery. Sorry, but he's always appeared too much like a grandfather to me. Ick.
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 4 2008, 10:14pm
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When have you last seen Bowie in real time?
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He really doesn't look that old. The oldest I have seen him look was on some cable series he was hosting, where he was made up to look haggard and morbid, but I saw him on tv a year later and at a concert (where Busta Rhymes also performed, lol) and he looked much younger. He looks young enough to pull it off. And they also have easy techniques for pulling back wrinkles (not that he has that many) especially with a long haired character. It could easily be done. Andf Should. STOP HATING! lol
"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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Lunamoth
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Jan 4 2008, 10:29pm
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On TV, where I'm sure he had makeup on for the cameras
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I'm not hating. I'm a fan of his music and acting. I just don't agree he should be Thranduil. And no amount of repeating it should be so is going to make me suddenly change my mind. *shrug*
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AinurOlorin
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Jan 5 2008, 10:04am
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Even make up wouldn't have worked if he were too haggard, which he is NOT
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And whatever make up and camera's there were, New Line can afford better. And he would make the perfect Thranduil. And, as with your sentiment to the contrary, I am implacable in this, and nothing you can say will dissuade my thought. But beware that you don't see the film only to find someone playing Thranduil who looks just as old as Bowie would have, but who isn't nearly as well suited to playing the role.
"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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