# The Hobbit movie(s) anticipation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969 "2010-10-22T02:44:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 32
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/621 "2013-11-05T14:39:23Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > So, the extended \*\*\*addition \*\*\*is out. Purposeful? Or best typo ever. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/622 "2013-11-05T15:05:11Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > So, the extended addition is out. I’ve seen it once and liked it quite a bit more, What does it add? BTW I’m not buying any of the BDs until I can get the EE boxed set. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/623 "2013-11-05T15:35:18Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > Purposeful? Or best typo ever. Best typo ever. Hilarious that I typed that and definitely not intentional. However, I will now think of them as “extended additions”. 😃 > [@Quartz](#): > > What does it add? > > BTW I’m not buying any of the BDs until I can get the EE boxed set. Only 13 minutes of added footage, I think. Mostly to Rivendell, which actually makes that section of the movie flow better than it did in the theatrical cut. Also, a new song from the Goblin King, which I think should have remained cut. [Here is a little guide with some screen shots and timestamps for you.](http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/10/25/81272-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey-extended-edition-scene-guide/) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/624 "2013-11-05T16:51:33Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Also, a new song from the Goblin King, which I think should have remained cut. Hey, Jackson paid for Dame Edna and he’s gonna freakin’ get his money’s worth! ---
**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:** [November 8, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/625 "2013-11-08T20:24:02Z")
Evangeline Lilly is worried about fan reaction to Tauriel… and I think she should be: [http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/11/07/evangeline-lilly-tauriel-the-hobbit/?hpt=hp\_t5](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/11/07/evangeline-lilly-tauriel-the-hobbit/?hpt=hp_t5) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/626 "2013-11-08T20:31:59Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Evangeline Lilly is worried about fan reaction to Tauriel… and I think she should be: [Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/11/07/evangeline-lilly-tauriel-the-hobbit/?hpt=hp_t5) Why oh why a red headed Wood Elf? Seriously, Jackson stop pushing us die-hard fans so hard. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2013, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/627 "2013-11-10T21:34:19Z")
Handy (if US Centric) guide to the extended editions: > **[The definitive buyer’s guide to every version of Extended Edition of The...](http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/11/10/82046-the-definitive-buyers-guide-to-every-version-of-extended-edition-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey/)** > > We want to simplify the head-scratching surrounding the multitude of versions of the Extended Edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey available to fans. So, based on feedback from you, the fans, the additional information that Warner Bros. has... Brian ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/628 "2013-11-11T16:17:10Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Evangeline Lilly is worried about fan reaction to Tauriel… and I think she should be: [Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher](http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/11/07/evangeline-lilly-tauriel-the-hobbit/?hpt=hp_t5) My nine-year-old daughter, who is deeply in love with Legolas (along with Harry Styles and Howard Stark), said she “Hopes Legolas’ girlfriend gets killed by the dragon” when she found out about the character. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/629 "2013-11-11T16:29:03Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > My nine-year-old daughter, who is deeply in love with Legolas (along with Harry Styles and Howard Stark), said she “Hopes Legolas’ girlfriend gets killed by the dragon” when she found out about the character. She can seek solace in the certainty that the character exists to _be_ killed. Elfy the Red certainly wasn’t around during LOTR, was she? She’s there as a way for Jackson to get Legolas, a hugely popular character in the LOTR movies, into the Hobbit movies’ main plot and provide some sort of character arc for him.\* Of _course_ she’ll die before the end, as tragically as possible. I’ll be on my feet, cheering. \*Also so that there’s a female character of some sort in this sausage-fest. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/630 "2013-11-11T16:54:43Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > My nine-year-old daughter, who is deeply in love with Legolas (along with Harry Styles and Howard Stark), Your daughter has good taste. I’m more on the Aragorn end, but she could do a lot worse. Only one pop-prince is amazing restraint for that age-group. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/631 "2013-11-11T17:36:11Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Why oh why a red headed Wood Elf? Seriously, Jackson stop pushing us die-hard fans so hard. Hey, as long as PJ’s asking us to swallow the camel of characters and plot lines pulled out of his ass, we may as well not choke on the gnat of the hair colour. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/632 "2013-11-11T21:42:35Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Hey, as long as PJ’s asking us to swallow the camel of characters and plot lines pulled out of his ass, we may as well not choke on the gnat of the hair colour. I know,I know, but this is just one ass pull too many for me. I understand the want for more female characters. But couldn’t he have left this pretty actress who actually looks fairly elven keep her natural hair color that matches what the overwhelming majority of wood elves had for hair. Not to mention that no elves had red hair. Silly thing to be bugged by but I do hope someday, someone makes a movie of the Hobbit. Just a simple 3-4 hour movie without additions from nowhere. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/633 "2013-11-15T00:57:08Z")
Tauriel may die, but the character’s absence from the (internally-chronologically) later movies doesn’t make it necessary. None of the LotR movies take place in her territory; Legolas is out of his when he appears. There is (as far as we can now see) no particular reason for her to be seen or mentioned in LotR, if she had been (or, uh, will be) still living then. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/634 "2013-11-15T01:02:11Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I do hope someday, someone makes a movie of the Hobbit. Just a simple…movie without additions from nowhere. They did. It was a cartoon. Not bad in its way. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/635 "2013-11-15T01:42:33Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > They did. It was a cartoon. Not bad in its way. I liked it as a kid first run but I watched it a few years ago and it was very hard to take. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/636 "2013-11-15T02:56:33Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Tauriel may die, but the character’s absence from the (internally-chronologically) later movies doesn’t make it necessary. None of the LotR movies take place in her territory; Legolas is out of his when he appears. There is (as far as we can now see) no particular reason for her to be seen or mentioned in LotR, if she had been (or, uh, will be) still living then. A pint of Barliman’s best says she dies. ETA: by the end of this trilogy, not by the end of this coming movie 2. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/637 "2013-11-15T03:33:56Z")
You’re on! Meet ya in Bree! (Well worth it, either way!) ---
**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:** [November 15, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/638 "2013-11-15T03:53:24Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > You’re on! Meet ya in Bree! > > (Well worth it, either way!) Watch out for Dark Riders on your trip. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/639 "2013-11-15T04:41:39Z")
[“I See Fire”, the closing song from Desolation of Smaug.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mllXxyHTzfg#t=37) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969/640 "2013-11-15T04:52:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Watch out for Dark Riders on your trip. It’s okay: I have a pass signed by the Mouth of Sauron, and I speak fluent “Black Speech.” It’s those pesky Rangers who are more likely to hassle me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-movie-s-anticipation-thread/557969.md?page=33)