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Cool! 8)
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I think he'd make an excellent elf. Or perhaps a Laketown newscaster. 8)
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Elf, I think. I can't imagine him trying to break out of the background, not in a Tolkien film.
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New high resolution version of that recent image of Bolg, from Tolkiendrim...

http://www.tolkiendrim.com/visuel-de-bo ... esolution/

Confirming the description of him from the action figure packaging as "wearing the blood and bones of his victims" you can clearly see now how various body parts, beard and hair have been bolted/glued/stapled on!

A real Frankenstein freak!
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Maybe Colbert will be Beorn's arch-nemesis? ;)
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:rofl:

Elen, I am definitely glad that the "official 16-month calendar" I bought does not in fact include the Bolg image. Eyewww.
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Perfect, kzer za. :D
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That is COOL about Colbert! 8) He must have been so excited!



Bolg is creepy. :neutral:
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New TV spot with a mix of stuff we have seen and a bit of new stuff:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10101777833085066

I likey!
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Enough with the teasing...we wants the movie now, Precious! :D
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I like that! Looks suitably Hobbity. More so than the full trailer.
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Incredible New Hobbit Issue Of Empire: Five amazing 3D lenticular covers

In shops over here tomorrow... :D

ETA: Peter Jackson also reveals runtime of An Unexpected Journey in this special HOBBIT issue:
Those who have been fearing that the change from two films to three would result in less Bombur for your buck, fear no more: it's still an epic length.

“It’s looking like it’s going to be about ten minutes shorter than Fellowship was," explains Jackson. "So it’s going to be officially our shortest Middle Earth yet. I mean, Fellowship was just under three hours and this is about 2 hours 40 minutes at the moment.”

The "about" refers to the fact that the credits hadn't yet been added and not all effects shots finalised when we spoke to Jackson, but it's going to be close.
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Well...because it's kinda become a tradition for me (and 'cos I love you guys! :love: ) here are a few scans of the EMPIRE Hobbit Special...

Not the whole lot because there are "63 pages of Middle-earth Magic" but the two main articles, plus the contents page so you can see what you're missing! ;)

http://s574.photobucket.com/albums/ss19 ... 20Special/
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So the spiders don't actually talk, but Bilbo can understand their spidery communication thanks to the ring. That's actually pretty clever.

And it sounds like we'll have a prologue at the Lonely Mountain. It's not what I would have done, but I'm not sure that's much of an argument against it. 8)
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:kiss: for Elen!

I don't have time right now to play around with them to enlarge them so I can read the text. But I'll try again later.
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Very cool info in there. Thanks Elen! (Which Lenticular cover did you get?)
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I got the Galadriel cover, Al, but they were all available in various combinations in the 3 different local shops I visited at 9:30 am this morning. I did have to ask in the last shop I went to as no copies of the mag at all were out on display and I was beginning to think I wouldn't find it anywhere. Amazingly the guy went out the back and came back with a copy of the Galadriel cover in his hand!

Lali, I linked to the album as a whole for convenience, you just need to click once or twice on the image of each page and it should enlarge enough for you to read it.
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Thanks, Elen. You are a star (but then we already knew that!). Not surprisingly, the scans got linked over at TORN. Not much we can do about that, I don't think. If you wanted me to, I could ask that the link be removed, but I'm not sure that I would have a leg to stand on.
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Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Thanks, Elen. You are a star.
Pun intended, I'm sure. :)

Thanks, Elen.
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My pleasure! :)

As for TORn, yeah, well...I tried to be as circumspect as possible, and just point people in this direction, but the other thread got pushed off the page so it was only a matter of time, I guess. The previous scans didn't get removed so we'll just wait and see. It's not like I've put up the whole thing!
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