My suggestion: start a separate thread on this.
See post #460.
Ooops, sorry, I didn’t notice that the link was to a SDMB thread… my blushes.
Good grief, they’re making it into THREE movies and they’re still LEAVING STUFF OUT for an “extended version”? …
Does anyone know how long each movie is going to be? The question of “how many movies is reasonable” sort of hinges on how long each one is. Not that I won’t see them, just that I’ll be annoyed.
That’s not a mixed review.
Ah, fair point. My bad.
Got a first snapshot of Legolas and Bard the Bowman from Hobbit #3.
Just me, or is Bard looking a little “Inigo Montoya” to anyone else?
Also, dear god, I don’t remember Legolas having glow-in-the-dark blue eyes in LoTR.
“I do not think that Mellon means what you thinks it means.” (cups boob).
Legolas’s eyes were fairly aglow in some closeup scenes - nothing like that still photo, though.
And Bard looks… not quite ruggedly Bardish enough to me. YMMV.
Anyone else watching The Colbert Report this week, with all of the Hobbit stuff? Not bad. Each night a different word or phrase appears in the opening credits. First it was “One Tolkien Over the Line,” then “Elbereth,” and last night… “Elendil!”
Very cool, thanks.
Boy, yeah, not liking that look at all. Seems too youthful and not grim enough. Also, in desperate need of a haircut.
Maybe I just have Bard fixed in my head from Rankin Bass version. 
You’re very brave to admit that.
:::Hijack::: At my place of work they are setting up a “Santa’s workshop” for the kids, and there is one guy putting it together who sort of has a really scraggly longhair construction worker thing going on – but with an elf hat on. Taken together, it reminded me of a 19th century painting of a peasant festival or something. So perhaps bard would look more appropriate with a woodsmanny hat on.
I think I first saw it when I was 4, okay?
Cripes, Orlando Bloom has not aged one day since the LOTR films.
Hey, Elves age slowly. Maybe he really is one.
Yeah, he’s rockin’ that mullet.
Elijah Wood looks the same at 30 as he did at 19.
I’ve gone through most of this thread looking for a discussion of this point, so forgive me and just point me to it if it’s already here.
The Necromancer is Sauron, right? And in this incarnation (i.e. in the 3rd age), Sauron is unable to assume solid (let alone pleasing) form, right? I mean, after he was mostly destroyed at the end of the 2nd age, he is a bodiless spirit of some kind.
So why do they have a human (Sherlock Holmes, no less) to play this part?
Has anyone seen photos of what he is going to look like? I’ve seen a couple of concept drawings, they just look like men with peculiar costumes.
What am I missing?
Roddy