Oh yes that is a better option. Something like a thrilling, nail-biting escape from Thranduil's kingdom (you said about making it "bigger"-so in line with that idea). I thought reaching Mirkwood would have been good, but now I feel it would be too early an end to Part 1. Your ending makes much more sense also because Legolas isn't credited for Part 2, and he HAS to make an appearance in Part 1, and that can only happen if they show the sub-plot concerning their capture by the Elves.
That wasn't a dramatic cliffhanger, it was the arc of Part 1 coming full circle, and it was a no-dialogue, vague cliffhanger. You can't just have someone speaking something epic and then cut to black. That's what New Moon did, and look how that turned out.
Well the end is going to feel cliffhanger like regardless of where they stop it. The first two LotR felt very cliffhanger to me. It was always frustrating because you so wanted to know more.
I haven't read the hobbit in like ten years so i don't know. But at the end of the first film Merry and Pippin were captured by orcs. At the end of the second Gollum was going to lead Frodo and Sam to their death. They were pretty cliffhanger like. Especially the first one. Though i know what you mean. There was still for most of the characters a quiet moment and a chance for talking at the end. I would think they would do the same thing in the Hobbit.
Sweet mother of God...I think I almost died of jealousy :P
I am currently in New Zealand on the set of The Hobbit and I will be reporting biweekly from the set. I’m embedded with the crew as they run around the North and South Islands of New Zealand for the next two months on their location shoot and will be bringing you guys reports as we go along.
I said above that today’s pic features me and it does. I got to play a Hobbit while in Matamata, the location where Peter Jackson and his crew shot the Hobbiton stuff from the Rings Trilogy. I have much more detail on that coming soon, believe you me, but today’s pic has my Hobbit feet kicked back as relaxed and hobbity as I could manage… lounging on the grass as the sun set above a series of Hobbit holes.
I’m anticipating the first article to hit sometime Friday, so keep your eyes peeled.
Author JRR Tolkien drew lots of images for his book The Hobbit when it was first published in 1937.Now his pictures are being collected in a book called The Art of The Hobbit.JRR Tolkien drew 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps as he imagined what Bilbo Baggins and his world would look like.
A swath of JRR Tolkien's original illustrations for The Hobbit are to be published for the first time this week as part of celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the book's publication. The published version of The Hobbit includes around 20 illustrations by its author, as well as the well-known dust jacket painting of the mountains which Bilbo Baggins passes through on his adventures. But when HarperCollins began preparing for the book's 75th anniversary next year, the publisher discovered Tolkien had actually created more than 100 illustrations, which lay buried in his archive at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and were only recently digitised.
"That was a surprise. I thought there might be 40-50 in total," said publisher David Brawn. "But there are 110 Hobbit pictures, about two dozen of which haven't been published before."
Ranging from line drawings in ink to watercolours and sketches, the collected drawings will be published on 27 October as The Art of the Hobbit. HarperCollins hopes the collection and the anniversary will shed new light on the fantasy author – and on his first novel.
"It includes his conceptual sketches for the cover design, a couple of early versions of the maps and pages where he's experimenting with the runic forms, as well as a couple of manuscript pages," said Brawn. "It shows that Tolkien's creativity went beyond the writing, that it was a fully thought out conception. When he writes about the hobbit hole ["In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort"], he's designed it as well. And by doing that, it makes his description more vivid ... Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist. He was a great admirer of Arthur Rackham and you can see a little bit of that style coming through."
Although The Hobbit was first published in September 1937, Tolkien delivered the manuscript to his publishers in October 1936, so HarperCollins feels justified in kicking off its anniversary celebrations early.
New editions of the novel itself are also lined up for publication this month. The publisher hopes to bring attention back to The Hobbit in advance of the much-anticipated release of Peter Jackson's film next year.
"People have celebrated Tolkien as a writer for years – you haven't been able to get away from him since all the books of the century polls," said Brawn. "But The Lord of the Rings has always been the focus since it was published in 1954 – it's a much more grown-up, significant book. It has overshadowed The Hobbit as a more old-fashioned, children's book, which has become known in the context of The Lord of the Rings. The anniversary allows us to move the spotlight back on to the book which started it all."
There comes a time when just posting "lol" or an emote in every thread becomes really obvious.
And for the record you're being rude to Coon, who as far as I'm aware recently, hasn't posted anything off-topic and has put forward good, intellectual opinions.
Intellectual opinions and Joe/Coon? You don't know him, that's what I am gonna say. And whatever be my shortcomings, your post wasn't about that, was it? It was more about you trying to get some bullying points.
Oh and what else do you want me to post on Joke threads and other silly,immature threads? My CV? For you, bro --> :)) Take it and relax a bit instead of trying to be Firefly The Great.
Intellectual opinions and Joe/Coon? You don't know him, that's what I am gonna say. And whatever be my shortcomings, your post wasn't about that, was it? It was more about you trying to get some bullying points.
Oh and what else do you want me to post on Joke threads and other silly,immature threads? My CV? For you, bro --> :)) Take it and relax a bit instead of trying to be Firefly The Great.
All I'm seeing lately is Abhi coming into threads and claiming that Joe/Coon has no right to be here. Says who?
At least he actually puts forward opinions and discusses Harry Potter (the focus of this site).
I don't think I've seen Abhi, or Marie (the two resident post-whores) ever discuss anything Harry Potter related, and if I did, it was so brief that it was inconsequential.
Abhi™ doesn't deserve to spam every thread with inane comments in order to boost his post count, and therefore his e-penis.
That, my friend, is strike one. No insulting or name calling on this forum. I agree that he's behaving right now (probably because he knows that me or Richard will ban his ass off if he doesn't) Coon has spammed/trolled the forum more than once in the past, calling members names and creating multiple useless threads. Abhi and Mary, on the other hand, kept this forum alive and interesting at a time when there was NOTHING to look forward to. I see you did not comment much before the DVD promotions began. Neither did a lot of other members. And both of them creating interesting OT threads, especially the Photography and other hobbies one, is better than people like Mac creating random useless threads. And go read the Basic Rules thread. It doesn't say anywhere that you HAVE to talk about Harry Potter all the time. So get your fact rights before you call them or any other member a post-whore. Their contribution to the forum has been tremendous, and they're one of the sweetest people around here. So yeah, next time you're insulting someone, make sure they deserve it. Have a good day.
Abhi™ doesn't deserve to spam every thread with inane comments in order to boost his post count, and therefore his e-penis.
That, my friend, is strike one. No insulting or name calling on this forum. I agree that he's behaving right now (probably because he knows that me or Richard will ban his ass off if he doesn't) Coon has spammed/trolled the forum more than once in the past, calling members names and creating multiple useless threads. Abhi and Mary, on the other hand, kept this forum alive and interesting at a time when there was NOTHING to look forward to. I see you did not comment much before the DVD promotions began. Neither did a lot of other members. And both of them creating interesting OT threads, especially the Photography and other hobbies one, is better than people like Mac creating random useless threads. And go read the Basic Rules thread. It doesn't say anywhere that you HAVE to talk about Harry Potter all the time. So get your fact rights before you call them or any other member a post-whore. Their contribution to the forum has been tremendous, and they're one of the sweetest people around here. So yeah, next time you're insulting someone, make sure they deserve it. Have a good day.
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Author JRR Tolkien drew lots of images for his book The Hobbit when it was first published in 1937.Now his pictures are being collected in a book called The Art of The Hobbit.JRR Tolkien drew 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps as he imagined what Bilbo Baggins and his world would look like.
A swath of JRR Tolkien's original illustrations for The Hobbit are to be published for the first time this week as part of celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the book's publication.
The published version of The Hobbit includes around 20 illustrations by its author, as well as the well-known dust jacket painting of the mountains which Bilbo Baggins passes through on his adventures. But when HarperCollins began preparing for the book's 75th anniversary next year, the publisher discovered Tolkien had actually created more than 100 illustrations, which lay buried in his archive at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and were only recently digitised.
"That was a surprise. I thought there might be 40-50 in total," said publisher David Brawn. "But there are 110 Hobbit pictures, about two dozen of which haven't been published before."
Ranging from line drawings in ink to watercolours and sketches, the collected drawings will be published on 27 October as The Art of the Hobbit. HarperCollins hopes the collection and the anniversary will shed new light on the fantasy author – and on his first novel.
"It includes his conceptual sketches for the cover design, a couple of early versions of the maps and pages where he's experimenting with the runic forms, as well as a couple of manuscript pages," said Brawn. "It shows that Tolkien's creativity went beyond the writing, that it was a fully thought out conception. When he writes about the hobbit hole ["In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort"], he's designed it as well. And by doing that, it makes his description more vivid ... Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist. He was a great admirer of Arthur Rackham and you can see a little bit of that style coming through."
Although The Hobbit was first published in September 1937, Tolkien delivered the manuscript to his publishers in October 1936, so HarperCollins feels justified in kicking off its anniversary celebrations early.
New editions of the novel itself are also lined up for publication this month. The publisher hopes to bring attention back to The Hobbit in advance of the much-anticipated release of Peter Jackson's film next year.
"People have celebrated Tolkien as a writer for years – you haven't been able to get away from him since all the books of the century polls," said Brawn. "But The Lord of the Rings has always been the focus since it was published in 1954 – it's a much more grown-up, significant book. It has overshadowed The Hobbit as a more old-fashioned, children's book, which has become known in the context of The Lord of the Rings. The anniversary allows us to move the spotlight back on to the book which started it all."
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