# Hobbit Movies info **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 17, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453 "2009-04-17T18:41:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/41 "2009-06-17T18:01:29Z")
The _Narnia_ movies seemed to lack the depth that the _LOTR_ films did. This extends to the settings, as **Tanbarkie** perfectly illustrated. In Narnia I thought it was all plastic and facade and couldn’t get into the plot as a result (even tho I liked the kids, Ms. Henley in particular). ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/42 "2009-06-17T21:28:48Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > I used to feel that way, but I’ve matured (or perhaps just aged) since then, and come 'round. Hey! Didn’t you just insult me?!?!?! I’d complain to a mod if it weren’t for the 9,000 or so posts supporting the thesis that I am immature. 😃 > [@](#): > > Movies are different than books, and I shouldn’t expect similarity. We’ve got lots of examples of when an original story is adapted to other artistic media: book or play or story to movie is perhaps the most obvious, but no one objects that Tchaikowski’s ballet “Romeo and Juliet” ruins the play. > > When a favorite book of mine is adapted to play or film, I no longer expect the movie to reproduce the experience of the book. I am satisfied if the movie is a worthwhile experience in and of itself. (Which I thought RETURN OF THE KING was, but LION, WITCH AND WARDROBE was not.) I didn’t say that YOU shouldn’t watch movies based on books you love, Dex. I said that _I_ shouldn’t. Apart from the fact that I like books far more than movies, there’s the fact that, in the books I love, the things I love best are the things that don’t translate well to screen, if at all, and probably shouldn’t try. I enjoy the pictures in my imagination much more than the director’s vision, and I have a much harder time losing myself in a fictional screen world than in a fictional text one. Anyway, I don’t object to movie adaptations of books I love. I just don’t watch them. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/43 "2009-06-17T23:34:39Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > in the books I love, the things I love best are the things that don’t translate well to screen, if at all, and probably shouldn’t try. Those are “Ooky” things, right? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/44 "2009-09-08T22:18:08Z")
Lawsuit settled; the _Hobbit_ movies are good to go: [Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher](http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009/09/08/hobbit-movie-tolkien-new-line/) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2009, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/45 "2009-09-08T23:20:41Z")
Have they cast Bladorthin yet? How about Pryftan? Medwed? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/46 "2009-09-09T03:06:06Z")
Just a rumor, but through the miracle of splitscreen, I hear Yahoo Serious has been cast in all three roles. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/47 "2009-09-09T03:31:28Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Have they cast Bladorthin yet? How about Pryftan? Medwed? Nothing has been cast as far as I know (with the exception of a few of the returning characters). If I recall an interview w/ Peter Jackson I heard a few weeks or so ago, he was planning at that time to hand in a first draft of the script at which point the studio will officially greenlight the movie (it’s pretty much a technicality but on the off chance PJ hands in a turd it protects them). When the movie is greenlit, then they will start casting. Until that point, any rumour you hear is pretty much baseless. That said, I love the idea of James McAvoy playing Bilbo. My fingers are crossed. ---
**Author:** ![GreedySmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a698b9/32.png) [@GreedySmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreedySmurf)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453/48 "2009-09-10T02:00:56Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > Don’t forget, he’s got the third best Gravitas Voice in Hollywood, after Morgan Freeman and Patrick Stewart. Heading slightily OT, But I’d put James Earl Jones ahead of Freeman. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobbit-movies-info/493453.md?page=2)