I just read at imdb.com that the character of Galadriel (again played by Cate Blanchett) will be making an appearance in the movie version of The Hobbit. I understand why you might want to add a woman to the movie, since there are a grand total of zero female characters in the book, but what would Galadriel be doing in that story?
I personally would have made one of the dwarves a female bearded dwarf (with apologies to the Dopers who don’t like to relive the “dwarfette with facial hair” controversy.)
Either that or have some elf women show up in Mirkwood and at King Thranduil’s court, and more women in Laketown fighting the dragon. Of course, in Mirkwood, they will have to deal with the problem of showing elfs in a less noble and superhuman light.
I suspect they’ll show some of the White Council meeting that Gandalf runs off to mid-story. So maybe we’ll see some of the other Wizards too. Wonder if they’ll get Christopher Lee back as Saruman.
According to this article, which echoes your question, Radagast the Brown has also been cast, who IIRC only appears in a flashback of Gandalf’s in FOTR. So yeah, White Council & booting the Necromonger from Dol Guldur is my guess.
One who forges the dead?
Collecting a paycheck, I’m guessing.
Not true: Lobelia shows up to steal some of Bilbo’s cutlery.
“Monger” means “someone who sells stuff,” not “someone who makes stuff.”
Ah, thanks. Ignorance fought, and a lame joke made lamer.
Actually, it was a brain fart/typo. I happened to watch “The Chronicles of Riddick” over the weekend, and had kind of mixed the two in my head. To be fair, Eomer & Lord Vaako are the coolest characters in both franchises.
Now anxiously awaiting news Vin Diesel has been cast as Sauron…
While “White Council meeting to kick Sauron out of Mirkwood” is the most logical guess, one must remember that Peter Jackson does deviate from Tolkein …
Pissing me off apparently. I really don’t see a reason to explicitly show the expulsion of Sauron from southern Mirkwood.
They’ve got to stretch it out into two movies somehow.
For better or worse, they want to explicitly link the Hobbit with the Jackson movies, so showing the White Council makes sense in that respect. You get to see whats Sauron is up to and you can cram a bunch of characters from the later films into the White Council, which would be hard to do if they followed the books exactly.
Plus you do kinda need to make it clear why Gandalf wanders off mid-quest. It does make him look cowardly to set a bunch of 4 foot little people off to fight a dragon and then remember that he has something really important to do just before said dragon fighting is to be done, but that he’s sure they can figure it out.
And, as the OP notes, it gives you a chance to at least acknowledge the existence of woman.
Not true: that happens in LotR, when she is turned out of the house after Bilbo’s disappearance and relieved of a few things that fall into her umbrella. The Sackville-Bagginses try to buy Bag End in The Hobbit, but Lobelia is not named.
He got swayed on the home owners craze and now cant face his debts.
P.S: I will put a Jihad on anyone that even dares to mention Female Dwarfs With Beards.
Maybe but Gandalf had already rejected fighting the dragon and settled (at least to the dwarf’s satisfaction) on burglary. True other writings show that he felt something had to be done about the dragon but he relied in providence to show the way.
What would Galadriel be doing in The Hobbit (movie)?
Scaring the beards off the Dwarves and the Hobbit, most likely.
Like, say, Tolkien? He was pretty clear on the matter.