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Message from Peter Jackson on his Facebook page...
Hi everybody. We will have a new on-set video from THE HOBBIT coming here soon!
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Exciting! :)
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Cool! Of course, soon is a relative term, but he has tended to post them on Fridays, so I look to see it on Friday.
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These videos are doing more than anything else to get me back to the year 2001. :D
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The production video is up at PJ's Facebook page.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php ... 0773691807
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OMG...New Zealand looks even more stunningly beautiful than I remember from LotR!!! :sunny:

One thing that stands out - PJ says almost immediately that Laketown doesn't feature until film two so that gives more hints to end point for Film 1 (after Barrels?)

And I do believe I spotted Roäc at 7:17! ;)
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I have always said that the end of Movie 1 is going to be the barrels going down the river.
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Spoiler from a different cinematic/literary piece:
Hidden text.
A Song of Ice and Fire has a scene with a dwarf and a barrel. And a character named Daemon who is a minstrel.
Time wise in literary terms, the split should probably come before that, but cinematic-ally with glorious battles and Necromancer scenes, that sounds about right.
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I enjoyed that. New Zealand is incredibly gorgeous!
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Courtesy of Carne on TORn, some screen caps of possible new Dwarves...

Any guesses? Thror, Thrain, even a Dwarf woman? One certainly seems to be wearing a "miner's" helmet with candle lights!
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Elentári wrote:One certainly seems to be wearing a "miner's" helmet with candle lights!
Reminds me of Pratchett's dwarves.
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Inanna wrote:
Elentári wrote:One certainly seems to be wearing a "miner's" helmet with candle lights!
Reminds me of Pratchett's dwarves.
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Another one finally. I haven't watched it yet:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=101 ... 3926807%20
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I'm surprised (almost shocked) that no one else has watched this, or at least commented on it. But then again, I haven't commented on it since watching it. Good stuff, with some interesting glimpses here and there, but the ending is what really makes it worthwhile (but I won't reveal what that is). Totally worth watching for that reason at all.
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I want to watch it. I'm a little constrained in my video watching during the work day because my husband is working, too, in the next room, and if I start up a video he simply can't ignore it; he has to come watch, too. So we both get interrupted. Twice as expensive. :P Thus I tend to wait until we're not doing paid work any more.
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Very cool. Why is that these things always seem to be released when I'm away from the internet for a few days?

I'd say the fact that they blurred some things out due to being film 2 material but showed lots of shots of dwarves in barrels pretty much confirms that film 1 breaks after that.

Does this mean we might finally be seeing that Quint report soon?
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The word from him is that he doesn't know.

And good point about the barrels. Although I didn't really have any doubt about that even before.

The other interesting thing about the barrels is the fact that they are open. That is definitely a change, but one that makes sense, so long as as the barrels start out closed. I can't imagine any way that they could make it work otherwise.
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I finally watched it. The end was great.
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