New The Trolls Are Finally Revealed At Comic-Con

which is literally wonderfull. I love that they have beards (a nod to the old animated film, mayhaps? lol) and more fefined faces.
 
It's great to see lots of sites with images but I don't want you to forget that TORn is also posting images.

The quickest way to see them is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theoneringnet/

To get a little context to them, visit this page: http://www.theonering.net/live/comiccon/hobbit/

The TORn staff at Comic-Con is working hard to get this stuff to you asap. Be sure to check out their reports and maybe shoot at Tweet back at them about the stuff you like and the questions you have.

Are the other sites talking to you. ;-)
 
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I'm liking the new designs. They're close enough to the originals from FotR for continuity but with an updated look.
 
If you (the general 'you') like the trolls, does it give you enough faith is the rest of the production to not require proof that the movies won't suck? Or will you continue to demand spoilage so that going to the movies is simply a formality?

I understand the TORN enthusiasm for representing it's readership, but will it do this at any cost?

Please consider the fans who don't want to be spoiled as much as those who do. Not just with spoiler tags and warnings, but with consideration for what's worthy and justified at all.
 
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Did you visit the site not expecting see a troll?

Don't follow any of the links I provide for Comic-Con. They might have a spoiler at the end. I think it's a given that if TORn or other readers here say they're posting links to images at Comic-Con, there are going to be spoilers of some sort at the end. You are going to see something.

Everyone has different levels of what they consider 'spoilage'. all our mileages vary
 
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It was not just about spoiler warnings and knowing what's at the other end. I am questioning and warning about the unthrottled feeding, if it does indeed occur, of an audience so voracious that it loses something respecful and dignified, like at an orgy of food. There's nothing left at the end to enjoy and we feel empty inside despite the stuffing.

I come at this not in terms of only TORN and The Hobbit, but seemingly the trend of all things today regarding movies and entertainment where everthing must be known in advance. The audience becomes morbidly fat and demanding because they are fed upon demand lest they be unhappy (at the studios) and attack, like bears in national parks who don't get their free snack from passersby.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I believe we need these reminders sometimes to keep things in a more civilized perspective and at least encourage a balance that might otherwise begin to teeter.

Of course, we can assume that The Hobbit won't do anything it finds unacceptable, but that comes from years of dealing with voracious fans. [;)]
 
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They look far better than their petrified selves from the FOTR EE.

I'm loving the beards, too. Makes them look less like overgrown toads, and more like, well, trolls!

They look like they stepped straight out of a nightmarish folk tale, just as they should.
 
Having an idea of what's coming gives time to adjust to things that one mayhap doesn't find ideal, which can also be important. Certain images are going to come out. It would be atypical and serve no good purpose to keep every aspect of the film shrouded. And some revelations can have a very positive effect. The wargs, for example. Many of us were severely dissapointed with the hyena like repesentation of the wargs, and knowing that they will not appear thus this time around, when they play a more significant role, is quite a relief. However, were this not going to be the case, better to know early and be able to acclimate to the dissapointment, than to be sitting in the theatre, hoping for something more lupine, and then end up having to grumble in dismay "awww @%^#$%#explitive not these (second explitives) again!" lol
It was not just about spoiler warnings and knowing what's at the other end. I am questioning and warning about the unthrottled feeding, if it does indeed occur, of an audience so voracious that it loses something respecful and dignified, like at an orgy of food. There's nothing left at the end to enjoy and we feel empty inside despite the stuffing.

I come at this not in terms of only TORN and The Hobbit, but seemingly the trend of all things today regarding movies and entertainment where everthing must be known in advance. The audience becomes morbidly fat and demanding because they are fed upon demand lest they be unhappy (at the studios) and attack, like bears in national parks who don't get their free snack from passersby.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I believe we need these reminders sometimes to keep things in a more civilized perspective and at least encourage a balance that might otherwise begin to teeter.

Of course, we can assume that The Hobbit won't do anything it finds unacceptable, but that comes from years of dealing with voracious fans. [;)]
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with every word.
They look far better than their petrified selves from the FOTR EE.

I'm loving the beards, too. Makes them look less like overgrown toads, and more like, well, trolls!

They look like they stepped straight out of a nightmarish folk tale, just as they should.
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than the LOTR trolls did or would have. For my part, they are much more in keeping with the type trolls I would have expected to see in The Hobbit as a story than are any of the LOTR trolls, especially The Cave Troll.
 
I always felt the FOTR EE stone troll designs were not the highest on WETA's priority least, leaving us with some pretty anodyne and uninteresting faces.

These guys, on the other hand, are three of the best creature designs I have ever seen. IMO.
 
... and would have liked to have seen them in the flesh and blood, talking, fighting, and all that.

Anyway, I guess it's a moot point, although I would still like to shake my fist at PJ (LOL) [;)]
 
And I'm thinking now that, articulated, they may even begin to resemble living versions of the FOTR petrified fellows.
 
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