The Hobbit: BotFA Trailer discussion with SPOILERS

[Primula Baggins]

If I'm not mistaken, the express train is the only serious anachronism in LotR. I can't say it bothers me. It's just a technical problem for me. I tend to dislike situations where the narrator knows something the characters don't. It isn't how I think it should be done. ( I dislike narrators as such, so I'm really no judge.)

[Passdagas the Brown]

One of the great charms of the Hobbit, IMO, is that the narrator knows more than the characters, and often pokes fun at them!

[Smaug's voice]

Wow. A mere five people here on HoF are interested in talking about the last trailer for the last Middle Earth film by Peter Jackson. Wonder if that says something about waning interest, at least among Tolkien fans...

Make that a 6.

[yovargas]

Wow. A mere five people here on HoF are interested in talking about the last trailer for the last Middle Earth film by Peter Jackson.

I watched the trailer and thought it was quite good but I've been trying to avoid both hype-ness and spoileryness so you won't hear much from me for now.

But if you want topics to talk about: Prediction - Leggy will kill several orcs. Agree/disagree?

[kzer_za]

Too much CG and too much Azog, and I'm nervous they're going to overplay the element of Sauron and Smaug being in league.,

Still, I enjoyed it. It's very character-centric (for the most part) and looks like the movie will be emotionally satisfying.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Wow. A mere five people here on HoF are interested in talking about the last trailer for the last Middle Earth film by Peter Jackson. Wonder if that says something about waning interest, at least among Tolkien fans...

That's four more than TORC...

And four million less than TORN ...

[Primula Baggins]

One of the great charms of the Hobbit, IMO, is that the narrator knows more than the characters, and often pokes fun at them!

It's just not to my taste—it's one of the things that makes the Hobbit a "children's book," and when I was a child I didn't like winking narrators, either. Even then I preferred to laugh at the characters in my own way!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Tolkien himself came to really dislike that aspect of the book.

[Passdagas the Brown]

I think Tolkien was wrong.

But in general, I agree about a dislike for winking narrators. It's just that Tolkien, I thought, was a lot funnier than most of them.

[Passdagas the Brown]

Wow. A mere five people here on HoF are interested in talking about the last trailer for the last Middle Earth film by Peter Jackson.

I watched the trailer and thought it was quite good but I've been trying to avoid both hype-ness and spoileryness so you won't hear much from me for now.

But if you want topics to talk about: Prediction - Leggy will kill several orcs. Agree/disagree?

I thought this place discouraged such wild and baseless speculation. Shame on you, yov.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Hi Res screencaps from the trailer courtesy of Dark Jackal:

http://thorinoakenshield.net/battle-of- ... creencaps/

[Voronwë the Faithful]

What is happening here?

https://heirsofdurin.files.wordpress.co ... 077786.jpg

[Primula Baggins]

<shakes fist at wimpy hotel wifi>

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Smaug's demise?

https://heirsofdurin.files.wordpress.co ... 110944.jpg

[Teremia]

I watched the trailer, and enjoyed it. That's more than I can say about the first two Hobbit films, so I do not have high high hopes for the film--but I have some little low hopes.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Little low hopes are better than no hopes.

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[Elentári]

What is happening here?

https://heirsofdurin.files.wordpress.co ... 077786.jpg

A Thief in the Night? Looks like Bilbo on top of the barricade...

[Elentári]

Smaug's demise?

https://heirsofdurin.files.wordpress.co ... 110944.jpg

It's certainly Bard attempting to reach the Windlance.... Is that an ordinary black arrow he's using to climb with?

[Passdagas the Brown]

What is happening here?

https://heirsofdurin.files.wordpress.co ... 077786.jpg

Almost certainly Thief in the Night (note that you can also see army campfires in Dale, where Bard and Thranduil are camped). The shot also comes after a shot of Bilbo throwing a rope over the barricade, and hopping over...

[Passdagas the Brown]

I love this shot:

https://heirsofdurin.files.wordpress.co ... 027819.jpg

I think these orcs look closest to how Tolkien described most of them. With more of a simian physiology (long arms, short legs, etc):

https://heirsofdurin.files.wordpress.co ... 124249.jpg