The Hobbit: Official thread - book and film

subwayrider said:
I loved the book. I'm definitely going to see the movie.
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I'm afraid that the movie won't even be recognizable as the book. I'm boycotting it because they have changed too much, such as adding a major female character that was never there probably to be a love interest of a certain young elf that was also never in that book.

As far as the second movie is concerned I think it's entirely other stuff in the history of Middle Earth, but all the same, I'm tired of Peter Jackson butchering this beautiful fantasy world. I have too much respect for Tolkien's work to willingly go see a butchered version of it that contains characters and personalities he never intended, like *cough* sword-wielding elf chicks. He made an exception for Eowyn, as a Rohirrim woman, but even she was against her culture and the elves guarded their women even more.
 
I'm excited for it!
 
a lot of fellow tolkien fans here! so cool :)
i think the movie is going to have a much darker tone that the book! maybe they will try to make it more mature like the lord of the rings trilogy. I dont really think that the Silmarillion could be made into a film, too many stories and plots for a single film. Remember that the book is sort of a gathering of loose writings by Tolkien published after he died by his son.
 
Sai said:
I dont really think that the Silmarillion could be made into a film, too many stories and plots for a single film.
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Which is why we have trilogies! :) There's just way too much interest in the Silmarillion for Hollywood to not want to try to make at least one film.
 
The founding activity of the Orange County Chapter of the Tolkien Fellowships was when we picked a poor unsuspecting and very short Trekkie nerd to play Bilbo in our recreation of An Unexpected Party. It made the local paper, and we all had a blast, even our poor Bilbo. I still remember a group of three arriving with assorted "At your service," and our Bilbo just followed them down the hall confused and sarcastic, "Sure! Why not! The more the merrier!"

This whole thread needs to get deeper. What do you think the story MEANS? What do you LEARN from it? What exactly is it that makes it such a great myth?
 
GracieRuth said:
The founding activity of the Orange County Chapter of the Tolkien Fellowships was when we picked a poor unsuspecting and very short Trekkie nerd to play Bilbo in our recreation of An Unexpected Party. It made the local paper, and we all had a blast, even our poor Bilbo. I still remember a group of three arriving with assorted "At your service," and our Bilbo just followed them down the hall confused and sarcastic, "Sure! Why not! The more the merrier!"

This whole thread needs to get deeper. What do you think the story MEANS? What do you LEARN from it? What exactly is it that makes it such a great myth?
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why don't you begin by answering those questions yourself. :)
 
The Hobbit is essentially a religious story, a recording of the spiritual quest. You don't always choose the quest, sometimes it chooses you. It is indeed dangerous, and many don't survive. The best advice is "Don't leave the path." Should you reach the mountain, you will have to face your dragon. If you survive, you find the Archenstone, a treasure being imagination. The story is "There and Back Again," so you do return to where you began, but NOT UNCHANGED. You bring back with you the treasures you found.
 
uberrogo said:
Im going to say this in all of your threads from now on. :)
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I don't have a problem answering my own threads. But sometimes when I do, people answer based on my personal response than respond to the general question. I don't want to limit or constrain the responses, nor do I want posters to answer based only on an example I presented. I like to hear different interpretations or responses to a question rather than giving a personal response which predisposes someone to think they should answer the question in a particular way. :)
 
Carrie said:
Which is why we have trilogies! :) There's just way too much interest in the Silmarillion for Hollywood to not want to try to make at least one film.
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yeah but the silmarillion is very different, it has many stories that arent even ordered chronologically!
 
UBERROGO said:
Im going to say this in all of your threads from now on. :)
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When I've answered my own thread questions first, people begin to post only in reply to what I've said rather than answer the thread question. That's why I avoid answering first. I don't want the thread to become about my personal response.
 
So, what's the verdict on the new Hobbit??? :)
 
In few words: This is how you make a three hours movie from less than 1/3 of the 300 pages long book.
 
It wasn't good.
 
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