The Hobbit - children's book? Random ruminations ahoy!

[Thudlow_Boink]

Anybody see the cover story in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly?
Apparently there’s new hope that Peter Jackson will, after all, be making a Hobbit movie.

[What_Exit]

@Thudlow Boink

Anybody see the cover story in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly?
Apparently there’s new hope that Peter Jackson will, after all, be making a Hobbit movie.

Any chance he will be a little more faithful to the actual writing of the book this time? He can cut stuff, but adding stuff is just plain wrong.

Seriously, give us a pair of movies, about 5 hours total length. Should be able to do justice to the Hobbit.

Jim (Did I mention that some of us are also hard to please?)

[What_Exit]

BTW: The article is online and 5 pages long: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20036782_20037403_20142132,00.html

Jim

[Frylock]

@Waenara

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My first impression was that I couldn’t even tell from the “review” whether the 10-year-old actually read the book all the way through. Bilbo fought goblins and wargs? Yup, but that’s what - maybe halfway through the book? I would think that even a child reviewing the book would mention the spiders, and would definitely talk about the dragon. Not to mention any subtler themes/symbolism/etc…

Apparently the full text of the review is a little longerthan what has been quoted in this thread–but just a little.

-FrL-