I don't either, but tens of millions of pre-teen and teen girls would disagree.
vison, here's hoping the films don't disappoint either of us. Or any of us.
Bilbo in Film 2?
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The chances of that are approximately 0%.Primula Baggins wrote:here's hoping the films don't disappoint either of us. Or any of us.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
If I am not the one making what I deem to be the interpretation of Tolkien's story then I will be disappointed in the film at some point or another. Tolkien speaks to all of us in different ways and there is no way to satisfy everyone.
IMO there were so many liberties taken with LOTR, that these movies can hardly help but failing less in that respect anyway. Of course these movies can also miss capturing some moments like the LOTR films did for me.
I may find them flat or unappealing, but I hardly think I will be as angry upon exiting the theater.
IMO there were so many liberties taken with LOTR, that these movies can hardly help but failing less in that respect anyway. Of course these movies can also miss capturing some moments like the LOTR films did for me.
I may find them flat or unappealing, but I hardly think I will be as angry upon exiting the theater.
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Oh, I know that's impossible. Like shooting one arrow through ten thousand widely spaced targets. Can't happen.
Nevertheless, I would be happy if at least some of the fine and estimable people who were bitterly disappointed in PJ's LotR can find a little joy in GdT's Hobbit.
Nevertheless, I would be happy if at least some of the fine and estimable people who were bitterly disappointed in PJ's LotR can find a little joy in GdT's Hobbit.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I honestly prefer that to the idea they were mooting about a second 'bridge' film.kams wrote:Still having doubts about taking the simpler, direct story of the Hobbit and puffing it out into two movies.
That all seemed far too hasty a concept to me, far too hasty indeed.
Two Bilbo films ... you know, it could be worse.
And I keenly anticipate GDT's Smaug.
Also want a hot Bard.
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What I could see him do in The Hobbit would be, for example, leading the patrol of Elves who arrest the Dwarves. Though, I'd rather see that done by the Captain of the Guard who later gets drunk with Galion the butler.Primula Baggins wrote:He has a reason to be there in that his presence fits the history of Middle-earth. He does not have a story reason to be there. He, Legolas, doesn't do anything in the story and is not a named presence in the book. So unless something like that is invented for him in the film, he would literally just be "a pretty face" in the background, and a distracting one.
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