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lionoferebor
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Nov 25 2015, 3:59am
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The Hobbit Trilogy...
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Just for fun, share your thoughts.
1. Favorite movie
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation
3. Best original scene
4. Favorite character
5. Best Bilbo moment
6. Best Thorin moment
7. Dwarves or Elves
8. Best villain
9. Favorite quote
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins?
Mine:
1. An Unexpected Journey
2. It's a tie between Bilbo/Gollum and Bilbo/Smaug...brilliant performances from Freeman, Serkis, and Cumberbatch.
3. The acorn scene and "I belong with my brother"...again wonderful performances from Freeman, Armitage, O'Gorman, and Turner.
4. Fili...Thorin and Dwalin are tied for a very close second.
5. Thanks to Martin Freeman's brilliant performance, every moment with Biblo is wonderful. However, if I had to choose a best moment - other than those scenes mentioned above - probably when Bilbo confronts Thorin on the ramparts.
6. Just like Bilbo, thanks to Richard Armitage's performance every moment with Thorin is great. Even in the throes of dragon-sickness he's captivating. Still one moment - if I had to choose - perhaps Thorin's confrontation with Thranduil in the Mirkwood throne room.
7. Ask me back when LOTR was in films I would have said Elves, but since The Hobbit its been the Dwarves. Sometime after seeing AUJ, I remember reading Durin's Folk from the LOTR appendices for the first time and thought to myself, "The Dwarves are great! Why had I not noticed them before?"
8. Smaug, he's cunning, captivating, and...well just look at him. Also, Gollum. I simultaneously despise and pity him, and, IMO, a villain who stirs up mixed feeling is not only a great villian, but a great character.
9. I love quotes. I could probably write an entire post on my favorite quotes, but for now I'll share one from each film.
AUJ: It was a sickness of the mind, and where sickness thrives bad things will follow.
DOS: I laid low your warriors of old. I instilled terror in the hearts of men. I AM KING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN!
BOFTA: I know that dwarves can be obstinate and pigheaded and difficult. They're suspicious and secretive, with the worst manners you can possibly imagine. But they are also brave and kind, and loyal to a fault.
10. A Baggins who wishes she was a Took.
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
Nargothrond
Nov 25 2015, 5:08am
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1. The Battle of the Five Armies
2. Bilbo vs. Smaug
3. Tauriel healing Kili
4. Thorin
5. "I'm not asking you to allow it, Gandalf." (He has gone beyond merely donning some bravery here; he's totally come into his own)
6. The same moment that I will recount on #9
7. Elves
8. Smaug
9. "Go back to your books... and your armchair... plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, the world would be a merrier place."
10. A Baggins, for better or worse
[To a corpse] "You're looking so well, darling, you really are. They've done a marvelous job. I don't know what sort of cream they've put on you down at the morgue, but I want some."
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Kilidoescartwheels
Doriath
Nov 25 2015, 5:53am
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My list - not so different from yours
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1. Favorite movie - I keep saying AUJ was near-perfect, but I'm going with DOS because of Smaug.
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation - another tough call, but will go with Barrels out of Bonds
3. Best original scene - Legolas & Tauriel fighting the Orcs in Bard's house
4. Favorite character - Thorin, of course! 
5. Best Bilbo moment - Another tough call - when he first meets Smaug, the way he's trembling with fear, very believable.
6. Best Thorin moment - Probably Thorin v. Thranduil, although his fight scene with Azog in BOT5A is pretty amazing!
7. Dwarves or Elves - see #4
8. Best villain - honestly, I think Dragon-sick Thorin was the best villain; he threatened to kill Dwalin! Now that's just going too far!
9. Favorite quote - "I may be a burglar, but I'd like to think I'm an honest one." Cracks me up every time! Close runner up: "Aren't you going to search me? I could have anything down my trousers" - LOL, don't know why so many hate that line, but I think it's funny!
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins? - Sadly, I'm a Baggins. I enjoy the comforts of home, and the closest I get to Tookish behavior is watching movies.
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DigificWriter
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Nov 25 2015, 6:34am
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1. Favorite movie The Battle of the Five Armies
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation Riddles in the Dark
3. Best original scene Why does it hurt so much?
4. Favorite character Tauriel
5. Best Bilbo moment Rescuing Thorin from Azog
6. Best Thorin moment Killing Azog
7. Dwarves or Elves Both (this may be cheating, but I don't care)
8. Best villain The Master of Lake-town (I love Stephen Fry)
9. Favorite quote Did I not say you would be a burden?! That you would not survive in the wild?! And you had no place amongst us?! I have never been so wrong in all my life!
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins? A Took
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Lissuin
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Nov 25 2015, 10:03am
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I love a purely positive thread. Cheers!
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1. Favorite movie - DOS, because of Lake-town...and Smaug...and Tauriel
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation - Riddles in the Dark. Perfect.
3. Best original scene - Tauriel explaining the Elvish love of starlight, Kili describing the fire moon.Two antagonistic races seeing past their differences.
4. Favorite character - Bilbo
5. Best Bilbo moment - It's still AUJ when he realizes in Bag End that the dwarves have gone, and he really wants to go too!
6. Best Thorin moment - "Go back to your books and your armchair, plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, the world would be a merrier place."
7. Dwarves or Elves - What?! You want me to choose between Thorin and Elrond/Thranduil/Galadriel, Dwalin and the Captain of the Elven guard, Fili/Kili and Legolas, The Company/Dain and the Rivendalians? Na-ah!
8. Best villain - Smaug, The Superbly Realized.
9. Favorite quote - (2) "It is our fight. Are we not part of this world?" and "I'm not doing it for you. I know that dwarves can be obstinate and pigheaded and difficult. They're suspicious and secretive, with the worst manners you can possibly imagine. But they are also brave and kind, and loyal to a fault. I've grown very fond of them, and I would save them if I can."
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins? - This ageing Took now prefers the pleasures of a homely Baggins life. Stoke up that fire, would you please? And then pass the scones, there's a good lass.
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Arannir
Doriath
Nov 25 2015, 10:30am
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1. AUJ
2. Riddles
3. power of common folk (Gandalf/Galadriel)
4. Gandalf
5. Thorin's death scene
6. Acorn scene
7. Elves
8. Smaug
9. Gandalf's speech to Galadriel in AUJ
10. A healthy mix.
"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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CathrineB
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Nov 25 2015, 10:37am
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1. Favorite movie:
- An Unexpected Journey
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation
- Gollum & Bilbo. Bilbo and Smaug.
3. Best original scene
- Four dwarves left in Lake-Town. I quite liked.
4. Favorite character
- Fili Kili, Bofur and Bilbo.
5. Best Bilbo moment
- Hmm. When he spares Gollum's life. First time we meet young Bilbo, his farewell to Gandalf in Botfa, his reactions to Fili and Thorin's deaths... there's so many.
6. Best Thorin moment
- His death scene
7. Dwarves or Elves
- Dwarves of course!
8. Best villain
- Smaug. And while I hate that he killed the Durins, how often do we get a badguy that succeeds in what he sets out to do?
9. Favorite quote
“Farewell, Master Burglar. Go back to your books… and your armchair… plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people… valued home above gold… this world would be a merrier… place…”
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins?
I'm a Bilbo!  I like the comforts of home, but I'm also very curious of the world outside and love to travel. So Bilbo is for me very easy to relate to.
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dormouse
Gondolin
Nov 25 2015, 11:23am
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Oh dear, I'm not good at this.... but here goes
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1. Each of them for different reasons, but overall I'd say Desolation of Smaug.
2. I have a feeling everyone's going to go for Bilbo and Gollum or Bilbo and Smaug because both scenes are so good; just to be different, I'm going to choose the EE version of the bargaining over the Arkenstone from Battle of the Five Armies - that whole scene when Bard and Thranduil reveal to Thorin that they have the stone.
3. For me it's a toss-up between Feast of Starlight and the golden statue.
4. Bilbo really, but I'll say Thorin as a sort of apology for never have liked him in the book.
5. Almost every time he appears, but I'll choose the acorn scene.
6. A tie - the death scene and his first entry into Erebor (and several others, but I won't go on... )
7. Elves on my right hand, dwarves on my left.
8. Er... should that be 'worst'  I'll say Sauron
9. It was lovely to hear the 'Good morning' coversation and lots of other actual Tolkien dialogue, but as an original quote I'll choose 'I have seen the world fall away and the white light of forever fill the air'
10. A book!
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OldestDaughter
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Nov 25 2015, 11:47am
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1. The Desolation of Smaug
2. Probably Riddles in the Dark, but I thought the Unexpected Party was pretty close!
3. When Smaug is covered in molten gold.
4. Bilbo. But I also like Bard.
5. His speech before Azog attacks them at the end of AUJ.
6. His run down the trees in AUJ.
7. Elves.
8. I would say Saruman(because he's my favorite villain in the other trilogy) But I will have to go with Smaug!
9."Revenge? Revenge! I will show you revenge!"
10. I am a Baggins!
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lionoferebor
Nargothrond
Nov 25 2015, 11:50am
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Did you mean a Took?
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dormouse
Gondolin
Nov 25 2015, 12:04pm
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..or a Taggins, if you prefer it! ;-) //
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Voronwë_the_Faithful
Doriath
Nov 25 2015, 2:26pm
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I'm just going to enjoy reading your list. 
I can honestly say that the Hobbit forum has gone back to be interesting to me because I can skip around and read your posts again.
'But very bright were the stars upon the margin of the world, when at times the clouds about the West were drawn aside.'
The Hall of Fire
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DainPig
Mithlond
Nov 25 2015, 3:34pm
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1. An Unexpected Journey, because of the dwarves, and how the focus is given to them.
2. Bard's family.
3. Gandalf and Beorn (EE)
4. Oh yes, Bilbo!
5. "His name is Bard. I asked him!"
6. Everything after the Sons of Durin.
7. Dwarves!!!
8. Azog.
9. "If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place." It is true, Thorin 
10. Baggins, of course!
How aaaaaaaaaaaaaare you all???
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Smaug the iron
Mithlond
Nov 25 2015, 3:50pm
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1. An Unexpected Journey
2.Good morning scene
3. Acorn
4. Bilbo
5. Riddles in the dark
6. Thorin's death scene
7. Dwarves
8. Smaug
9. "Bain lock at me, you lock at me."
10. Both
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Jeffrodo
Nevrast
Nov 25 2015, 4:24pm
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1. Favorite movie
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
3. Best original scene
STONE GIANTS
4. Favorite character
BILBO
. Best Bilbo moment
BILBO and GOLLUM
6. Best Thorin moment
DEATH SCENE
7. Dwarves or Elves
RIVENDELL SCENE
. Best villain
SMAUG
9. Favorite quote
"Misty Mountains" song in AUJ
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins?
BAGGINS!
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Elutherian
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Nov 25 2015, 5:05pm
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1. The Battle of the Five Armies
2. Riddles in the Dark
3. Bard reciting the Prophecy
4. Gandalf, as always.
5. When Bilbo takes pity on Gollum
6. When Thorin is confronted by Dwalin in the throne room
7. Dwarves > Elves
8. Smaug
9. "Saruman believes only great power can hold evil in check. That is not what I've found. I've found it is the small things... everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I'm afraid, and he gives me courage."
10. A bit of both, probably.
Chaos isn't a pit, chaos is a ladder.
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Withywindle
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Nov 25 2015, 6:55pm
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1. AUJ
2. "Good Morning" or "Riddles in the Dark"
3. Bilbo's speech before "Out of the Frying-pan and into the Fire"
4. BILBO!!!
5. I can't choose... That's impossible
6. The acorn scene.
7. DWARVES!!!
8. I don't know... I know that some people hate Azog, but I think that he is a good villain, for the most part. I like Smaug. While I think that Sauron is a great villain, he did not belong in these movies.
9. "I'm not a Took, I'm a Baggins. I don't know what I was thinking." or "That's why I came back... Because you don't have one... a home. It was taken from you, but I will help you get it back if I can." -Bilbo
10. I think I'm much more a Baggins than a Took.
"'... The Withywindle valley is said to be queerest part of the whole wood- the centre from which all the queerness comes, as it were.'" -Merry, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter VI, The Old Forest
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Dwarewien
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Nov 25 2015, 10:54pm
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I have yet to see the Extended Edition of BoFA...
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but I'll give this a shot, anyhow:
1. Favorite movie: Still DoS, since nothing bad happens to Thorin (I hate that), followed by AUJ and BoFA last but not least (for obvious reasons)
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation: I'll have to say Riddles in the Dark, since it's pretty close to how I pictured it in the book
3. Best original scene: Tough one, but I'll have to go with Tauriel standing up to Thranduil in BoFA, accusing him of not having any love. It was nice to see Thranduil console her after Kili's death by saying "because it was real", since that line nearly always makes me get all misty eyed, and mirrors my own thoughts about my own preferred heir of Durin (why, Tolkien, why).
4. Favorite character: Do I even have to answer this question? Thorin, duh (who'd you expect me to choose)!
5. Best Bilbo moment: I like it when he faints in AUJ after Bofur tells him what Smaug might do to him (I probably wouldn't have fainted myself)
6. Best Thorin moment: All of them (except anything bad that happens to him, of course, since like I mentioned before, I hate that)!
7. Dwarves or Elves? Dwarves (never been much of an Elf fan, sorry)!
8. Best villain: Smaug! Who doesn't love dragons, but I cringe everytime he destroys a part of Erebor. If he survived, I would make him clean it all up!
9. Favorite quote: I still love Thorin's line from DoS: "If this is to end in fire, then we shall all burn together!" When RA accepted the Ice Bucket Challenge, someone on Facebook (not me) posted a similar quote: "If this is to end in ice, then we shall all freeze together!" I thought that was brilliant!
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins? Took, definitely, since unlike Bilbo, I go stir crazy if I stay home, and will go out in any weather (even a blizzard or a very powerful wind storm. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right, and Mother Nature hasn't got me yet).
Hopefully, I'll get to see the Extended Edition of BoFA soon, since sometimes it takes me a while to get up the nerve (especially if I haven't seen it in a while), since I know certain scenes are going to make me cry (like the funeral scene, for example).
"Will you follow me... one last time?"
(This post was edited by Queen of Erebor on Nov 25 2015, 11:02pm)
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LSF
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Nov 26 2015, 8:28am
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1- AUJ
2- Haven't read the book, so can't fairly answer
3- Bofur/Bilbo conversations
4- Bofur and Bilbo are tied
5- In BagEnd with the dwarves, since you're making me choose between so many good ones
6- Thorin's death
7- Dwarves
8- Azog's my fave villain
9- "I wish you all the luck in the world."
10- Baggins
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Omnigeek
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Nov 26 2015, 6:48pm
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1. Favorite movie: An Unexpected Journey
2. Best book-to-screen adaptation: Either "Riddles in the Dark" or the Bilbo/Smaug confrontation from "Fire and Water"
3. Best original scene: Dain's introduction at the Main Gate
4. Favorite character: Bilbo (of course)
5. Best Bilbo moment: Discussion with Thorin about the acorn
6. Best Thorin moment: Charging out the main gate of Erebor
7. Dwarves or Elves: I would have said Dwarves until this trilogy, now I'm going for Elves
8. Best villain: Smaug
9. Favorite quote: "Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"
10. Are you a Took or a Baggins? Took!
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