The Hobbit (Dec 14, 2012/Dec 13, 2013/Dec 16, 2014)

[Rulke]

Gotta make room for those extended edition dvd/blu rays.

The only version of LOTR movies are the extended ones

[Bregor]

LOTR ripoff pic

[Vaspinne]

Not to be a smarty-pants, but technically the LOTR series was 6 books. Each of the 3 volumes (FOTR, TT and ROTK) has 2 books in them.

[Senji]

Not to be a smarty-pants, but technically the LOTR series was 6 books. Each of the 3 volumes (FOTR, TT and ROTK) has 2 books in them.

Not to be a smarty-pants, but technically the closest reference being made to LOTR being three books is yours.

[Pyro]

Not to be a smarty-pants, but technically the closest reference being made to LOTR being three books is yours.

Yes, it's a quick read since it's written differently than the other 3.

   

[D44kpunk]

can't wait, geeked out

[Senji]

   

the other 3?

[Rhyis.]

The LOTRs stopped being 6 books like 15+ years ago anyway. Hell, my copy of it is ancient and it's a single book. Damn thing is thicker then my thigh.

[kuronosan]

Okay. Day One See.

[Vaspinne]

the other 3?

Omniyoji wrote that the Hobbit is an easier read than the other three, as in, the three books in the LOTR series, which prompted my response that the series is actually 6 books long. Working in a bookstore, we sell the LOTR in both separate volumes and in 1 big ass book, but even inside them, regardless of whether they're separated or together, they're still divided into sections that are labeled books 1~6

[Rulke]

[Foxer]

Packing my tooth brush and leaving to New Zealand. Can't take it no more!

[Silenka]

That video made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Everyone seems so sincere and happy to be there.

[Boyiee]

Packing my tooth brush and leaving to New Zealand. Can't take it no more!

My friend was just in New Zealand a few weeks ago on his way to Antarctica =/

[Rulke]

Hobbit News of the Day: In a recent interview, Peter Jackson talked about the differences between his take on The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, and said that although the Hobbit films are a return to Middle Earth, they’ll be a bit different than LoTR.

Jackson views The Hobbit as “a children’s book” compared to The Lord of the Rings, and he said the big difference is the dwarves.

“Their energy and disdain of anything politically correct brings a new kind of spirit to it. And that’s why I thought, OK, this could be fun!”

Although the dwarves may be a lot of fun, having such a huge cast isn’t exactly easy.

“It’s an ensemble from hell really,” Jackson said. “I thought nine members of the Fellowship was a problem; but here, with Bilbo and Gandalf, we’ve got 15. It’s working out fine though.”

Don’t worry too much that the Hobbit will be a huge departure from LoTR, though. Jackson promises that he wants to make the two Hobbit movies “feel like they belong at the beginning of the other three.”

The closest thing to a spoiler in the interview came from Jackson’s wife and writing partner, Fran Walsh, who dropped a hint about how the two movies might divide up the story of The Hobbit. She says the second film will be focused on “war, madness and dragon rage.”

http://geeks.thedailywh.at/2011/12/2...-of-the-day-2/

"Jackson views The Hobbit as “a children’s book” compared to The Lord of the Rings" cracks me up. It IS a children's book ><; Glad to to see the man in charge knows this.

[Kaisha]

The LOTRs stopped being 6 books like 15+ years ago anyway. Hell, my copy of it is ancient and it's a single book. Damn thing is thicker then my thigh.

I dunno. The set I own is 6 books + 1 addendum from earlier 2000.

Anyways, I find it sad that I'm more interested in seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff for Hobbit than I am seeing Hobbit itself. Those LOTR:Extended extra DVDs were fucking insane and I expect no less for this also.

[Rulke]

^ So you have 6 individual books? What are the titles to each? "LOTR: Book 1, 2 etc?"

[Kaisha]

^ So you have 6 individual books? What are the titles to each? "LOTR: Book 1, 2 etc?"

They each got their own subtitle. In order:

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Ring Sets Out
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Ring Goes South
The Two Towers: The Treason of Isengard
The Two Towers: The Ring Goes East
The Return of the King: The War of the Ring
The Return of the King: The End of the Third Age

[Guyverarmor]

I have three main books, and every two Lord of The Rings books are put together... saves space. At least it breaks them into by a page stating the second title My dad has the six individual ones from the 1980s

[6souls]

In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) talked about Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and the character he plays in it... Smaug. During the interview he reveals some information that could tell us what we might actually end up seeing in the finale of the second Hobbit film The Hobbit: There and Back Again. This could very well end up being true, which means it could be a crazy big Spoiler, so you've been warned.

Spoiler: show

Here's what he had to say about playing Smaug,

I’m playing Smaug through motion-capture and voicing the Necromancer, which is a character in the Five Legions War or something which I’m meant to understand. He’s not actually in the original Hobbit. It’s something [Peter Jackson]’s taken from Lord Of The Rings that he wants to put in there.

Not sure if you noticed what he said right there, but if not I'll point it out to you. He brought up the Five Legions War, which could very well mean the Battle of Five Armies. This could be the way that Jackson ends up linking the finale Hobbit film to The Lord of the Rings. Empire then offers up a great speculation of what this could all mean, and I think it's pretty spot on with what we could very well end up seeing...

Readers will know that the Necromancer is Sauron, and that Gandalf disappears halfway through (the book of) The Hobbit to lead a coalition force and drive the Necromancer out of his Mirkwood stronghold. But in the book they dispatch the Necromancer back to (as it turns out) Mordor well before the Battle of Five Armies. Here, however, it looks like he's going to turn up to the finale in person, presumably at the head of the goblin and Warg army, and face Gandalf's team there.

If that is the case, it's a narratively neat way to combine the two story threads, that of Bilbo and the dwarves and the other following Gandalf and his team. It also gives the goblins a stronger motivation to suddenly turn up: in the book, they're avenging the earlier death of one of their leaders and (like all the other armies present) hoping to get their grubby hands on the dragon's hoard. If they're incited or led by Sauron, however, their actions will hang more coherently with their behaviour later in Lord Of The Rings.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2012/1/6/...could-lin.html
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=32799