The Hall of Fire

Does anyone know if the scene with Radagast rescuing Gandalf at Dol Guldur where orcs chase the rabbit sled through the dungeons before they make their escape was actually filmed? And what about the vision of Gandalf where he looks into a palantír and sees Smaug leading legions of orcs and creatures...

I wonder if the EE will offer visual explanation for the fact that while Legolas is commandeering a bat, he is shown with a hand on either leg of the creature and then when he gets over his targeted landing spot he suddenly is upside down with no real reason shown how he changed his position.

I wont talk about Tauriel because I don't feel like getting into an argument with everyone else here. However, I will say that I am totally sold on the idea of keeping Azog alive and making him a primary villain. I remember that I was the one that started the "Azog the Idiot" thread. I wa...

In the BATTLE OF FIVE ARMIES Official Movie Guide by Brian Sibley, they have four pages on the Ravenhill fighting. And what is puzzling is that what is shown is very different than what was in the movie. They show a rather large diorama of Ravenhill used by Jackson and his crew to plan out the shots...

saw it again last night - this time with my 13 year old grandson who saw the previous two with me so its now a tradition. I liked it even better the second time. One thing I noticed that escaped my initial viewing were the scenes of the Dwarves in Erebor preparing for battle and reconstructing the s...

saw it last night - enjoyed it greatly as it was a true visual feast for somebody like me who loves set design and exotic creatures and costuming. I would give it 8.5 out of 10. Freeman was tremendous as was Armitage and Stott. Wanted much much more from the Dol Guldur scenes with not so much of a c...

My local paper - The Detroit Free Press - the largest newspaper in Michigan - gave it four stars - their highest rating. They also did the same eleven years ago for ROTK. http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2014/12/16/hobbit-battle-five-armies-movie-review/20482783/ It is the kind of rev...

Elentári wrote:Guess it's not too early to start one, since we already have so much to anticipate from the last EE...

Not least the funeral:

Thanks for that pic Elen - it looks great. I fully expect the EE to be the great film we were hoping for.

Christmas Day, probably. And then I'll need to find a Chinese place that's open. ;) There is a good place in Cleveland - BO LING'S that is open on all the holidays like Thanksgiving and even Christmas. They have a duck that is to die for complete with long neck and head still attached. But they wil...

I will be there on the morning of the 17th. I will then go in the evening to the IMAX with my grandson to see it again.

The reviews seem to be the best of all three films. My spirits were taken to new heights by the VARIETY review.

Thanks to V and Elen for posting these with links.

This is going to be a long two weeks.

and ... perhaps we have 45 minutes of footage for the EE which does the ending right and proper?

Elen - thank you for starting this thread. I must say that this review causes me lots of concern and even outright trepidation - but - lets see what others chime in with. I was hoping for the same magic that PJ worked with ROTK and it seems to have gone in much the opposite direction. But lets see w...

The pig looks weak. Not fierce enough and from that angle at least it looks rather smallish. Even the flatulent creature in THE LION KING looked a bit fiercer with his tusks than this does and that character was a complete joke.

Elentári wrote:[In reply to Dave]
Still confused.... so this is not actually a photographic "still" but a digitally generated by computer?

If you are talking about the fighting Thorin pic on the set - It looks to me like Thorin is right there.

thanks to all for the spoilers and links to more..... I just read most of it and sounds like the film will not let us down as it sounds like there is tons there to like and revel in ... BUT ..... I dearly hope for thirty or forty minutes more added to the EE so these storylines are given a proper fi...

I finally was able to hear the Boyd closing song and feel it is best of the three HOBBIT closing tunes. In fact, of the six Middle-earth films - I would put it second only to the great Annie Lennox INTO THE WEST. The Boyd song is well performed and has a beauty about it while the ROTK closing song w...

That's because Kili becomes King, and marries Tauriel. Thus uniting the realms of elf and dwarf. that really makes perfect sense. Obviously their offspring over thousands and thousands of years gets smaller and smaller as the dwarf genes become dominant and explains how the elves became teeny tiny ...

Thank Elen for this report. Much in this simply WOWED me. The comment about 4.5 hours available for each EE makes my mouth water in hope and anticipation. I would love to see that. I am soooooo looking forward to this film.... even if it means saying farwell to a very long journey that has been the ...

Great feature Elen - thanks......I loved the sketches and watching it come to life. I like the clip of PJ coming in and twisting some of the horns. Now that is power!~ WETA is selling Thror on his throne in Erebor - I hope they do this one also as it just screams out to be on my shelf. A great pair ...