The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

[Frelga]

Huh. Now he looks like Loki.
And there's almost an uncanny valley effect from an adult face that is 100% free of all signs of aging.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I like all of the images except for that of Legolas.

Me too, other than Tauriel, which I think was a lost opportunity.

And there's almost an uncanny valley effect from an adult face that is 100% free of all signs of aging.

This demonstrates the difficulty in portraying beings that are supposed to be immortal (essentially), ethereal humanoids. Even succeeding generates complaints.

[Elentári]

(Since it's a new page...)




Swoonalicious!

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I guess that means you like it?

[Elentári]

Well, not quite as much as this one...



but it's certainly an improvement on the Legolas poster!

[Elentári]

Horizontal version of the Bilbo BotFA poster, from the Henneth-annun website

Click on link above for huge picture! Lots of interesting detail visible in the background....

[sauronsfinger]

thanks Elen for that link. It looks like some giant trolls will be on the battlefields. And I hope some enterprising company issues those battle standards as memorabilia. Is that part of Dol Guldur in flames i see or is it something else?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Here's Bilbo (my favorite of the character posters):

[Elentári]

thanks Elen for that link. It looks like some giant trolls will be on the battlefields. And I hope some enterprising company issues those battle standards as memorabilia. Is that part of Dol Guldur in flames i see or is it something else?

If you are referring to the structure to the right of Bilbo's left shoulder, I'm thinking it is possibly Ravenhill - it looks similar to the glimpse we caught of it in the AUJ prologue...


Great poster of Bilbo, V - Martin has such a wonderful, characterful face...

ETA: And here's the complete set...

[Voronwë the Faithful]

That's a little wide, but it's nice to have them all together like that, so unless someone complains about the page stretching, I would say let's leave it like that.

I find that I dislike the Legolas one less in that small size and with the others. But not the Tauriel one; I still think it is terrible.

[Elentári]

Yes, agreed...Legolas looks slightly less scary, but Tauriel looks so plastic and doll-like, IMO.

[yovargas]

Elves - now with industrial-strength stain resistance!

[Primula Baggins]

Yes, that really stands out. What popped into my mind is "'Ow do yeh know 'e's a king?"

[Impenitent]

Question: who intends to obtain these posters?
I ask because there are SO MANY of them. One could not physically display them all (okay, in theory one could wallpaper the house with them, but I'm assuming I'm not posting with hermit loonies), so if one does obtain them all, they would not really be seen.

Pardon my typos - tiny phone keyboard probs.

[yovargas]

I see a lot of movie theaters put up stuff like this for big movies. It's more of an ad thing then a fan merch thing, I'd think.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Here ya go, Elen:



Also:

[Impenitent]

I would secretly like to be a hermit loony, and paper my study with the promo posters for LoTR and Hobbit, which is the real reason I asked the question.

[Elentári]

Here ya go, Elen:



Also:

The first one, OMG, must have on my wall! [I'm getting a real SIL vibe from that shot...you can just imagine how incredible it could be!]

The second, not so much..... Not really getting this idea of Galadriel grieving over a possibly dead Maia... unless it's supposed to be a nod to how she rescued and healed Gandalf after his battle with the Balrog at the top of Durin's Stair?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Yes, I meant "here ya go, Elen" for the first one, and added the other one for completeness, trying (unsuccessfully) to imply that it was an also-ran.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I like this, but I think the lighting is off:

This definitely give me hope that Thorin's oncoming madness will be handled more subtly than Denethor's.