The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and LOTR Official Thread

Lord Stafford

Here's a bunch of new Hobbiton set photos!
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011/11/07/49893-more-hobbiton-set-photos/#more-49893

I just want....to live there. :(

I think we all do.

Lord Stafford.

silverarrowgriffin

check this out: http://www.wbshop.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-WB-Site/default/Product-Show?pid=1000150857&adid=MKLOTRNL1107&src=ELOTR117

WB should make something like that for HP

Lord Stafford

As long as it wasn't including the deleted scenes, i'd be up for that. Unfortunately, we'll probably never actually receive the massive backlog of cut footage.

Lord Stafford.

Ice_Mice

Here's a bunch of new Hobbiton set photos!
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011/11/07/49893-more-hobbiton-set-photos/#more-49893

I just want....to live there. :(

I think we all do.

Lord Stafford.

This! I'm hoping to move to New Zealand in a few years :) I fell in love with the country the moment I saw Hobbiton in LOTR

devkris_10

I had this one attached to LOTR Extended Trilogy Bluray.

Richard

LMAO thta was great^ also the music is really good!

aaron

check this out: http://www.wbshop.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-WB-Site/default/Product-Show?pid=1000150857&adid=MKLOTRNL1107&src=ELOTR117

WB should make something like that for HP

Ordered that last week, it's coming this Wednesday! :D

Hess

check this out: http://www.wbshop.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-WB-Site/default/Product-Show?pid=1000150857&adid=MKLOTRNL1107&src=ELOTR117

WB should make something like that for HP

I have that, it didn't come with the photos though, but it's still an awesome package.

Carne

3rd set report from AICN:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51948

TRAILER COMING THIS CHRISTMAS!
http://movies.ign.com/articles/121/1212456p1.html

aaron

:O Are you serious?! Why do I always have to miss everything!? Damn.

NumberEight

I am deathly in love with the fact that the Red Epic is being used, because it is far more efficient than using regular old film.

Joshie

TRAILER IN DECEMBER!? FUCK YES!

Darth Ledger

I have been highly critical of the people who assume this will jump right back into the same success as the original trilogy did but after catching up on all the news I can officially say I'm a new convert. I've recently watched the original trilogy for the 3rd time and I'm reading the books as well. Hard to believe The Dark Knight Rises actually won't win any box awards in 2012 other than highest OW lol

Jason

"Expect to see THE DARK KNIGHT RISES trailer in front of SHERLOCK HOLMES 2... And MAYBE even a HOBBIT teaser."

Maybe, but if it's true, trailer will be out by Dec 16.

TheDoctor

ahhhhhhh omg

aaron

Oh my god I'm SO PUMPED but I won't even be here lol

Richard

"Expect to see THE DARK KNIGHT RISES trailer in front of SHERLOCK HOLMES 2... And MAYBE even a HOBBIT teaser."

Maybe, but if it's true, trailer will be out by Dec 16.

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MattCat

Ugh, thinking it over I'd just rather have one Hobbit film – the story has a perfect three-arc structure – and, frankly, I'm doubting the material can cover two 2.5 hour films without feeling drawn out even the stuff they're adding could probably be done in like 15 minutes.

Carne

White Council, Radagast the Brown, attack on Dol Guldur. No, I don't think that could be done in 15 minutes.

Plus remember they have to flesh out many things for them to make sense to the audience. They have to expand upon Bard, because he's just a random guy in the book who suddenly shows up and kills Smaug. They need to show his private life, his conflict with the Master of Laketown etc.

Then there's the dwarven backstory, Thorin's backstory (how he got his name) and so on.

aaron

Anyone know why Elijah Wood is in the films? :P

MattCat

They only really need one council meeting (4-5 minutes tops), Radagast is unimportant and can be cut, Dol Guldur isn't a major battle with Sauron having already fled. The skirmish there need only be a few minutes and elaborating on the dwarves and Bard could all be done in one film.

aaron

I have no idea what you all are talking about (I haven't read the book) but I'm pumped.

Carne

Anyone know why Elijah Wood is in the films? :P

I believe he and Ian Holm will sort of introduce us to the main story at the beginning of the first film.

Carne

Bret McKenzie talks "The Hobbit"
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32529

Bret McKenzie is best known for being one part of "New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-rock act", Flight Of The Conchords.

Keen-eyed Lord Of The Rings fans might also know him for his potrayal of the elf Figwit, complete with long sleek black hair – and most worryingly, no beard. Speaking to Bret recently, we talked about his return to Middle Earth for The Hobbit and putting on his pointy ears once more.

"It was in Wellington so I could pretty much walk to work. It’s still a small part — I did a couple of days earlier this year — but it was great to get my pointy ears back on. It’s in 3D, so the ears will be extra pointy. You’ll be able to touch the ears."

In Lord Of The Rings, his character's name was Figwit, but it was never actually given in the films, but in The Hobbit, things are different.

"I’ve got a proper name this time: Lindir. In the book he was a musical elf. This time, if I make the edit, I'll speak in Elvish. But I don’t sing. They haven’t asked me to do the theme song yet! Maybe this time it’s me and Annie Lennox."

"Ian McKellen, it turns out, is a big fan of Flight Of The Conchords. He and I had a good time on set, coming up with ideas for Hobbit: The Musical. We’re still developing it... (laughs)"

Perhaps the most important question of all is... did you have to shave your beard off again?

"Oh yeah. I look like I’m 12. I look much more like a girl in The Hobbit. I look like a hot girl."

Well, we're sold. One hot girl, present. Excellent stuff.

Joshie

A new TDKR trailer? FUCK YES

Hobbit Teaser? OMFG

aaron

Bump for Rich. I showed him some epic LOTR pieces, and he's gotten into the score. Shouldn't be long before we've tainted him. MWOOHAHA.

Richard

im speechless. Like aaron knows how speechless iam.

aaron

:) I know you'll find some parts of the film boring, but the epic really outweighs the non-epic, and in fact those "boring" moments aren't even boring if you can register into the story enough. Truly phenomenal work. I knew getting you hooked to the score would be a great catalyst to get you to be excited about the films. Please launch all questions here or by PM or chat while you're watching, I'll be glad to help you make your way through the films. :D

Carne

The LOTR music is some of the best ever composed.

Hess

Yep, personal favorite score of all time.

Joshie

I don't understand why Rich doesn't like the masterpiece LOTR.

Richard

I don't understand why Rich doesn't like the masterpiece LOTR.

Im buying them all on bluray black friday hopefully.

Joshie

I don't understand why Rich doesn't like the masterpiece LOTR.

Im buying them all on bluray black friday hopefully.

Yo LIL' ASS better get EXTENDED EDITIONS OF LOTR OR MAMA JOSHIE WILL BE PISSED.

Richard

im getting the blurays..

Joshie

im getting the blurays..

YO ASS BETTER GET THOSE BLURAYS OR MAMMA JOSHIE BE PISSED

aaron

*-:)

Lord Stafford

Yep, personal favorite score of all time.

Which one? They're all great.

Lord Stafford.

aaron

They were all conducted, composed, and orchestrated together, similar as filming was helmed as one large production, and split during post-production. It is a masterful score--one of the best, if not the best film score ever conducted.

Ice_Mice

Yep, personal favorite score of all time.

This! For me nothing will ever top it. So much raw emotion and power in the score that it enhances and accompanies the films so perfectly.

Hess

Yep, personal favorite score of all time.

Which one? They're all great.

Lord Stafford.

Difficult question. I guess I'd pick the third one, just because it represents so many powerfull and emotional moments.

Richard

The lotr bluray extended collectors ed is on sale for one day only at frys electronics for 40 bucks.

Joshie

BUY IT

Richard

Cant, its only today and frys is 50 min from here and i gotta work :'(

Carne

You're missing out...

Joshie

QUIT YOUR JOB RICH

Richard

lol

Ice_Mice

QUIT YOUR JOB RICH

This! Don't they know you have more important things in life? Such as pleasing your friends and buying LOTR?

Lord Stafford

They were all conducted, composed, and orchestrated together, similar as filming was helmed as one large production, and split during post-production. It is a masterful score--one of the best, if not the best film score ever conducted.

Oh, i know. But we tend to listen to them as separate entities.

P.S 400TH COMMENT!!

Lord Stafford.

thehalfbakedprince

LOTR and hobbit are awesome!!!


glad to see some fellow fans here although this is a harry potter forum



Richard,


if you are getting blu-rays you MUST get the extended versions

as awesome as the first cuts are the extended versions are that much better

i wonder if Jackson plans on extended versions for the hobbit films?

I CANT WAIT!!!!


(either way)

Carne

Welcome to the forum I guess!