Frelga wrote:NO! Must have Viggo. Liv I could do without. In fact, I'd there was any way to include Sean Bean...
Holy cats, I'd rather have Viggo than Sean Bean.
However, I have read somewhere that someone is planning to show Boromir and Faramir growing up off there in Minas Tirith. Sorta fan ficcy, but might add interest.
Well. Really FANFICCY, I guess. Prolly wishful thinking.
Oh I am sure there will be poncey elves flitting about, though I would be pleasantly surprised if Liv were one of them. We need some eye candy and Viggo, Sean and the rest of them hardly qualify in my book.
Doubtful that any of them will make more than a cameo though.
Whatever happens, I doubt I will be surprised. I seen the first set of movies.
Still not convinced. End the first movie at the death of Smaug? If I remember correctly, wasn't Bilbo feeling guilty that Smaug traced their company back to Laketown? That adds in to Bilbo's decision to give Bard the Arkenstone as a bargaining chip.
What about the parallel between Smaug's greed and Thorin's? Flashbacks? When reading the book, I got the sense that Smaug's death was out of the frying pan into the fire for Bilbo and the dwarves. Why split that in two?
For me it comes down to the simple fact that the more of F2 thats based on canon, the less that will need to be manufactured. And that is an encouraging thought....
Whatever the details are, I feel confident in saying that the film Hobbit will parallel PJ's LOTR, far more than Tolkien's. Of all the news I have heard so far about this project, the most telling is GDT saying the Hobbit will in fact be the first two parts of LOTR as opposed to two separate entities.
Perhaps we'll see Aragorn as a precocious 6-year-old who has amazing reflexes and uncanny abilities in sword swinging. So Elrond tests his midichlorian count and ...
Take my hand, my friend. We are here to walk one another home.
For me it comes down to the simple fact that the more of F2 thats based on canon, the less that will need to be manufactured. And that is an encouraging thought....
Well..... you have a point about canon. However, the Hobbit is not that long of a story. I think we would be best served by making the best movie out of the Hobbit material than making the best double-feature-because-we-have-the-money-for-it-and-only-so-much-canon.
But that's just me. 
But that wouldn't fit.
I must have wiped that from my memory. Brilliant but scary.