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LalaithUrwen
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Posted: Sun 12 Aug , 2012 2:48 am
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That was my fatal "error," too. I read TH after LotR, and it just wasn't as completely and totally awesome to me as LotR was.

So I am excited about TH movie, and I'm curious to see what gets put into 3 movies. Plus, I have to admit that I'm excited about having 3 years to experience Middle-earth again.

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Posted: Mon 13 Aug , 2012 11:00 pm
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Yesssss! :cheers:

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Has this been posted yet?

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There’s also a “Make your own trailer” with 5 different endings here:
http://www.thehobbit.com/index.html#con ... our-moment


But luckily someone just edited the 5 endings into one clip:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/the-hobb ... ve-endings

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Posted: Thu 20 Sep , 2012 2:20 pm
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Thanks for posting this! :) I came here yesterday to post at least the one trailer, but I ran out of time.

I hadn't seen the alternate endings. Awesome!!! :banana:

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The trailer looks AWESOME!!! Looks like it has some of the darkness/seriousness of the Peter Jackson LOTR that we love so much but with added whimsy all over that makes it distinctly TH.

Oh and does anyone else think that the new poster for TH is a homage to John Howe's painting?

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I love that they've included Gandalf reading out two lines of the hobbit walking song: "home is behind, the world ahead". :)

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Posted: Fri 21 Sep , 2012 6:12 pm
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That is so neat. :)

And, Jonny, I think you're right!

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I got lured into looking at some screen caps (by that temptress Di of Long Cleeve) and they looked so stunning I had to stop inspecting them. I want that shock of pleasure to happen in the cinema. But what I saw was darned good.

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I think they missed out the value of the mithril shirt - the Shire is actually quite big but........


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:bow: Absolutely brilliant! :D

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So who's planning to actually go to the midnight opening?

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How about midnight, 3 years from now? ;)
I was planning to see this, partly because I thought Martin Freeman would be the perfect Bilbo. I lost interest, though, when they turned it into a 3-film extravaganza. (I'm just not that interested in seeing partial films.) If it turns out to be worth seeing, we'll watch it on DVD once the whole thing's out in 3 years.

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We might be going to the midnight showing with some friends. (Dressed up in costume, of course. ;) )

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Looking like a line party is being organised here in Brizz!
*Goes to look for a Hobbity ren faire outfit to resurrect*

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This is more of a book question, but I don't think we have a thread for that...

I'm re-reading The Hobbit and just finished Riddles in the Dark. It seems that Bilbo gives his name, but never mentions The Shire. So where did Gollum get that piece of info from?

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Posted: Mon 26 Nov , 2012 10:04 pm
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Gandalf wrote:
Well, as for the name, Bilbo very foolishly told Gollum himself; and after that it would not be difficult to discover his country, once Gollum came out.
Not sure why that would be the case, but who am I to question the Maiar?


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Posted: Mon 26 Nov , 2012 11:33 pm
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Ah, okay, that makes sense - I had mistakenly remembered Bilbo telling Gollum "I am Bilbo Baggins of the Shire". And I mis-remembered the line you quoted as "Well, as for the name and country, Bilbo very foolishly told Gollum himself."

Just goes to illustrate the frailty of human memory. Well, my memory, anyway.

(but I find it interesting that I edited one memory to make my other wrong memory to make sense)

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Not sure why that would be the case, but who am I to question the Maiar?
I always assumed it was because Thorin, the other dwarves and Bilbo became so famous after the death of Smaug, battle of five armies, etc. Parties of dwarves and hobbits traveling together (not to mention Gandalf) would be very rare, so it wouldn't be hard to figure out that these were the same travelers captured by the goblins. (even without knowing Bilbo's name, though that would help locate him in the Shire) I also imagine that the dwarves who later visited Bilbo in the Shire would have caused some local gossip.

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