The Hobbit preview 10min

[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.

[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

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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

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[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?

[frau kaleun]

IMO if this movie turns out to be of the same quality as LOTR, there is no way on earth that having read the book beforehand could ruin it.

Granted I hadn't read any of the books within the 15 or so years prior to the first LOTR movie coming out, but then I didn't really need to. I'd read them so many times in the two decades prior that there weren't really any surprises to be had provided Jackson didn't do any major improvising.

(I can still remember sitting in the theater watching the Fellowship trailer for the first time, seeing the various characters, and a little voice in my head saying "Well that's Boromir, that's Legolas, that must be Gimli..." and then another voice in my head asking "It's been at least 15 years, HOW CAN YOU STILL KNOW THESE PEOPLE?!?!?" )

My first experience with The Hobbit was an animated version that was on TV I don't know when, before I ever read the books so maybe I was a pre-teen or barely a teenager? Orson Bean did the voice of Bilbo, I want to say John Huston was Gandalf, and Hans Conreid was Thorin...?

I didn't start reading the books until the summer of 1980, The Silmarillion had come out in paperback and I picked up a copy in a drugstore and got hooked. I think I'd tried to read a loaner copy of The Hobbit but just couldn't get into it. But I soon asked for the little paperback set that had it plus the LOTR trilogy and got it for my birthday a couple months later.

So, eh, for me The Hobbit was not a beloved introduction to the written works of Tolkien, it was always more the "filler" in between The Silmarillion and LOTR.

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

So, eh, for me The Hobbit was not a beloved introduction to the written works of Tolkien, it was always more the "filler" in between The Silmarillion and LOTR.

Heh, the Hobbit was the first in the series I read, since it was so much easier Once I got older little and I could wrap my head around the style in LOTR I got more into the books. (but that was after I saw the movies, unfortunately )

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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?

Well, I'm even later to the party. In that year I wasn't even thought of yet. My parents didn't even know about eachother yet. Though around 1985 I played a game on this thing that was based on the story. But I had been totaly oblivious to the existance of the LOTR lore until 'THE movies' came out. Once I saw the first movie I immediately bought the english version of the trilogy book. (like everyone else ) The dutch translation contained such strange malformed names of the people and place, I was never going to read that. But yeah, since then I've been a bit lazy with reading. The Silmarilion and the Hobbit are catching dust. Hopefully the fire of Mount Doom will be rekindled in the comming years.

I've also still got the german version of Das Boot catching dust in the book cupboard. How naive I was when I tried reading it in it's original tongue. (Yeah, I set high standards to my self.)

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Pisces

Well, I'm even later to the party. In that year I wasn't even thought of yet. My parents didn't even know about eachother yet. Though around 1985 I played a game on this thing that was based on the story. But I had been totaly oblivious to the existance of the LOTR lore until 'THE movies' came out. Once I saw the first movie I immediately bought the english version of the trilogy book. (like everyone else ) The dutch translation contained such strange malformed names of the people and place, I was never going to read that. But yeah, since then I've been a bit lazy with reading. The Silmarilion and the Hobbit are catching dust. Hopefully the fire of Mount Doom will be rekindled in the comming years.

I've also still got the german version of Das Boot catching dust in the book cupboard. How naive I was when I tried reading it in it's original tongue. (Yeah, I set high standards to my self.)

I know people my age and older who never read the books (and barely knew they existed) before they saw the first movie. And they got hooked as well, now they love the books because of the movies and not the other way 'round.

Which told me right off what a fantastic job Jackson did, since it clearly wasn't just Tolkien geeks who thought the movies were awesome.

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I know people my age and older who never read the books (and barely knew they existed) before they saw the first movie. And they got hooked as well, now they love the books because of the movies and not the other way 'round.

Which told me right off what a fantastic job Jackson did, since it clearly wasn't just Tolkien geeks who thought the movies were awesome.

I remeber in my 20's being given the LOTR novel with all 3 books in one, I got about quater way into the story before dumping it, it just didn't interest me even though at the time I was right into fantasy novels writers such as Margaret Weis, David Eddings and Sara Douglass to name a few. J.R.R Tolkien LOTR is like a children's story for adults well it was written in the 50s or somewhere near about.. But that never stopped me from seeing Peter Jacksons LOTR movies 4 times. And yes I will not be buying The Hobbit novel I probably wont like the story, but I will enjoy the movie. If that made any sense

[kiwi_2005]

Update:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...bo-loses-dwarf

Fans of The Lord of the Rings have another reason to like The Hobbit, with confirmation that Sir Ian Holm will reprise his role as the older Bilbo Baggins. As director Sir Peter Jackson broke the news of Holm's return, he was able to refer to the skilful casting of Martin Freeman as a younger Bilbo. "One comment that came up from the recent video blog was the Bilbo voice at the end. Many of you assumed it was Sir Ian Holm," Jackson said on Facebook.

"Whilst Ian will be returning as the older Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, that recording was actually Martin Freeman's voice, taken from a script read-through we recorded when the cast first arrived.
"I have to admit, I wasn't sure who it was when I first heard it, either."
That backs the self-belief that Freeman displayed at the start of filming in February when he joked that he "wasn't tying himself up in knots" about living up to Holm's depiction of Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings.
"Without being big-headed or falsely modest, I think I'm a good match for him," he said at the time.

Other stars returning for The Hobbit, the two-part, 3D prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, include Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf, Andy Serkis as Gollum, and Orlando Bloom as Legolas. Elijah Wood is reprising his role as Frodo Baggins, even though the character did not appear in JRR Tolkien's book of The Hobbit, which is set 60 years before the trilogy. Jackson also said on Facebook that he would use the four-day Easter break to recharge his batteries and "do a few script tweaks for future scenes".

However, in another Facebook posting on Sunday night, Jackson announced that British actor Rob Kazinsky was pulling out of his role of Fili the dwarf for personal reasons. "Rob has been terrific to work with and his enthusiasm and infectious sense of humour will be missed by all of us," Jackson's post said. "I should say that Rob's departure will not affect ongoing filming of The Hobbit, nor will it impact work done to date, as we had yet to film much of Fili's storyline."

[onelifecrisis]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

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

Wierdo.