I’m super pumped for this movie. I have been for awhile, but in October I was in New Zealand and managed to be on the Hobbiton set the day after filming completed. It really changed the look of the trailers for me to have sudden jolts of “Hey, I was standing right there!” </brag>
I loved the song and the hint of the trolls that we got. I do think Thorin looks a bit weird – awfully young and not all that dwarvenly – but I’ll give the actor a chance. No looks at Smaug but that’s not surprising, they wanted to tease with Gollum who more people are familiar with. I also think it’s awesome that Stephen Fry is in it.
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It may be observed that in this book as in The Hobbit the form dwarves is used, although the dictionaries tell us that the plural of dwarf is dwarfs. It should be dwarrows (or dwerrows), if singular and plural had each gone its own way down the years, as have man and men, or goose and geese. But we no longer speak of a dwarf as often as we do of a man, or even of a goose
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Can’t wait. Genre fantasy movies are so rare, that I’ll likely be impressed if it’s even 1/4th as good as the LOTR trilogy. Hope the score will be as good.
I have a feeling that a lot of the events alluded to in LoTR dealing with “The Necromancer” in Mirkwood and all that will be either flashbacked or dealt with directly as a cut-away in the Hobbit. Sort of a counter-narrative of what the Big People are dealing with while the Little People are sorting out their own problems. That explains much of the casting, and also helps to make the primary quest narrative spread more evenly throughout two films. I may be dead wrong about this, but hoping so - it’s my preferred construction possibility.
I am very much looking forward to seeing certain people try to pretend to be good, honest, upstanding wizards during the Council meeting(s).
In the linked trailer a few posts above, at about the 1:17 to 1:20 mark, I think you see Gandalf checking out some ruins, which I would like to speculate is/are Dol Guldur.
Edit: lotr.wikia.com has that screenshot, and labels it as Gandalf at Dol Guldur.
It really changed the look of the trailers for me to have sudden jolts of “Hey, I was standing right there!” </brag>
