The Hobbit preview 10min

[kiwi_2005]

THE HOBBIT Start of Production

The making of the hobbitt over the next 3 yrs there ya go & dont forget to bookmark facebook page

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[papa_smurf]

Cant wait

[Weiss Pinguin]

Peter Jackson's lost quite a bit of weight since the Lord of the Rings Lots more gray hair too... I guess doing a series like this will do that to ya. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

[Sailor Steve]

Very nice! Thanks for the link!

[UnderseaLcpl]

I'm looking forward to it. I was more looking forward to it when I saw the horses. I thought "Holy hell, I might get a chance to be an extra in a cavalry charge in one of the most epic movies ever made! Maybe they'll have a cavalry charge in the Battle of Five Armies!"

For those of you who think that's an odd desire, you are not horsemen. Any true horseman would delight in the chance to participate in a cavalry charge. Think about it. Hundreds of men sitting astride hundreds of massive beasts of war, bearing down upon the enemy to the sound of a thousand thundering hooves. Charging someone with just one horse is awesome. Get a few friends and the awesomeness multiplies exponentially. I know because I've done it. But a charge with a whole regiment of cavalry? Or even a few score? I can't even imagine the ecstasy, even if it's a fake charge.

So I immediately went to the omniscient internets and looked up the casting calls for "The Hobbit". And then I said a bad word. They aren't asking for horsemen, they're asking for white male extras who stand shorter than five-foot-seven, which made me say another bad word. Actually, it was the same one, but slightly more pronounced and emphatic. And I may have said it twice. Or more than that. And also added other bad words.

As with the LOTR trilogy, I seem to have missed my chance again.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

Peter Jackson's lost quite a bit of weight since the Lord of the Rings Lots more gray hair too... I guess doing a series like this will do that to ya. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Hey! He's not done until he's turned out that other prequel, The Silmarillion.

[Chad]

Dude awwwesome! I'm very glad that Peter Jackson is doing The Hobbit

[Dowly]

Amazing to see the sets like that, really never pay much attention to how big they are when I see them in the actual movie.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Hey! He's not done until he's turned out that other prequel, The Silmarillion.

That was actually the first of the books I read and what got me hooked.

The Hobbit was probably my least favorite of the major works... but I expect the movie will be superb if Jackson can work the same old LOTR magic.

Also, it has a dragon in it. I hope it's not just a knock-off of those things the Nazgûl rode, but something unique and really cool.

[Pisces]

So when is this movie due? I wanna hold off reading the book. Books are allways better, so it will be the double whammy when experienced in that order.

[nikimcbee]

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Hey, dude, does your civil war reenactment group have cavalry charges? I've seen that there are cavalry units but I've never been to a reenactment myself so I don't know how they do things, and I hate to spend the money on the uniform if they just half-ass the charges.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Pisces

So when is this movie due? I wanna hold off reading the book. Books are allways better, so it will be the double whammy when experienced in that order.

I read the books for the first time in 1969, and I was late to the party. Why have you not read them before now?

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

Hey, dude, does your civil war reenactment group have cavalry charges? I've seen that there are cavalry units but I've never been to a reenactment myself so I don't know how they do things, and I hate to spend the money on the uniform if they just half-ass the charges.

No. IMO, the cav is a joke, but that is neither here nor there. They did do a cav charge several years ago with sabres drawn(!), but they did charge when the grass was wet and one of the horses slipped and broke ait's leg and had to be put down.

They haven't done one since.

We do have a fully functioining artillery limber, which I ride on.

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

No. IMO, the cav is a joke, but that is neither here nor there. They did do a cav charge several years ago with sabres drawn(!), but they did charge when the grass was wet and one of the horses slipped and broke ait's leg and had to be put down.

They haven't done one since.

We do have a fully functioining artillery limber, which I ride on.

Damn. Poor horse.

I don't know if my horse would pull an artillery limber. He doesn't like being attached to things. I could probably train him to do it, but I don't know if it's worth the expense and effort just to cart cannons around. I'll have to think about it