The Hall of Fire

I haven't read any reviews and I doubt that I will beyond the blurbs I can't seem to avoid here and there. I'm not expecting anything that PJ isn't capable of. I'm not expecting anything less than PJ is capable of. I doubt I will be disap.........I won't be surprised. PJ is great at visuals, but he,...

Hah! You like the films, or you do not. Cinematic appreaciativeness (sic) is cock and bull, and you know it. This is no Oscar wannabe. PJ's Hobbit works, or it does not. Those who have emerged themselves in Tolkien's world have no choices. Yes or no. You miss my point. If someone who has similar op...

Just as an fyi, I posses zero knowledge of the Hobbit film as it is being released.

I'll have cogent responses when we are discussing green on blue or the viability of Afghanistan as a state, but beyond that I have no input that is meaningful..

Reviews and Tolkien-ites, imo, don't necessarily go hand in hand. We are all going to see the films no matter what, and we all have our own opinion of good and bad. This is an instance where I think reviews are are superfluous or maybe a novelty. That depends. In addition to being a massive Tolkien...

I promise to be honest and unforgiving. I promise to quote people accurately and warmly.

This can't end well.

I agree and I think it is a curiosity to hear what "other people" think, especially after the fact, but we are judging from a different perspective that I don't often get with movies. I pay attention to reviews when I am not familiar with the subject and when they are at one side of the sp...

Reviews and Tolkien-ites, imo, don't necessarily go hand in hand.
We are all going to see the films no matter what, and we all have our own opinion of good and bad.
This is an instance where I think reviews are are superfluous or maybe a novelty.

Ummm yeah...

Best Tolkien Related Figure Ever

This mashup of Tolkien himself singing "That's what Bilbo Baggins hates" combined with excerpts from "Blunt the Knifes" from the soundtrack shows what amazing job they have done in capturing his intention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpWjgMgQIYA Compare that to the abysmal Ra...

Prim has the right of it I think, to an extent. The dwarves (Thorin especially) had a lot riding on this quest, and dealing with a timid hobbit was putting them nearly at the end of their collective rope. They were intentionally being difficult, because they knew they were heading into a difficult s...

Just in case that doesn't work;

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You are preaching to the choir.

Okay let me try it this way;
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I reluctantly decided to pass on midnight myself. I'm getting too old for that stuff. :D It has been my tradition to go to the first viewing the following day after the midnight showing, alone, on a Wednesday morning. Damn you studio execs for releasing this on a Friday. No early Saturday viewing l...

I have heard of such things. So, one could say that this is not inconsistent with reality. However, there's a world of difference between a guy at a Casino in the 21st century, and Tolkien's quietly humorous book, the Hobbit. In no universe should an adaptation of Tolkien include a character crappi...

According to the Hobbit Visual Companion, the Great Goblin's throne doubles as a toilet. He is so lazy and overweight that he prefers to relieve himself without getting up... The sad irony here is that some people addicted to slot machines have been known to do the same thing. I knew a guy whose up...

It is my belief that the opening scene will only be seen at the theater and not in a trailer.

The books are in need of a good editor. They are far too wordy and there is far too much superfluous material in there. Having said that, while I really like the HBO series, the books are more coherent and clever. The HBO story suffers somewhat because of the way the time constraints were dealt with...

To say that his wealth wasn't a part of his definition is an outright lie. Certainly his wealth had some effect on who he was, but it did not define him. Neither did the heroin flowing through his veins, but it was part of who he was. You can no sooner separate the wealth of John Lennon than you co...

Primula Baggins wrote:Holby, you might consider editing that; I doubt that you really meant to call Voronwë a liar. . . .

Duly noted and duly edited.