The Hobbit preview 10min

frau kaleun · 04-15-11, 01:10 PM

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?!?!?"

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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 · 04-15-11, 03:58 PM

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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

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04-15-11, 01:10 PM	#1
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	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.