http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/18/film.thehobbit.ap/index.html

can't wait for the scene with the trolls.

at least he is working on it. hopefully the director spends most of the time saying "uh, Pete, you want to take over". i can't wait to see what they do with Smaug.

AHHHH this will be better than LotR. I would love to see a Smith of Wootton Major adaptation adaptation too.

the original Gollum from the cartoon is still my favorite. More froggy and a more threatening voice.

awesome.
I'm just curious how they're going to make it into 2 movies. I mean, it's a pretty short book.
I can't wait to see all the dwarves.

aril said:


I think there is more action and things going on in the hobbit then in all of the lord of the rings books

y_ddraig_goch said:

Fair enough. The cartoon adaptation managed to make a feature-length out of the book, and still left plenty of stuff out - I don't see why they couldn't make two if they left everything in. (Although it'll break my heart to see The Hobbit without that "The greeeeeeeeateeeeeest adventuuuuuuuure" song.)

I enjoyed the Hobbit more than LotR. More entertaining.

Did anyone read Tolkien's (son's..) new book? I bought it the day it came out but have yet to crack it open.

In unrelated news, here's an extremely hot picture of the Baroness:

YUP

thats not Chris Tolkiens new book; that's wicked old...

It's called Children of Huron and it's good but slow at times much like the Silmarilion.

I'm disappointed we're not talking about how hot Lisa Loeb Baroness is.

Lisa Loeb didn't pop into my head when I looked at that picture.
Now, I can't help but see it.
And that IS a great drawing.

Gotta love a mousy-but-hot librarian goth with a leather catsuit and lots of guns.

i know its old, but still a great read

MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT!!!

Should be cool.

ancient master said:

im glad that they could not make that book into a movie it would ruin it

Ian McKellen better play Gandalf or I'm going to be very upset

I very much look forward to seeing this movie - The Hobbit is my favorite book and there are so many scenes I think could be brought to life so well with a movie: the three trolls, Bilbo & Gollum's "Riddles in the Dark", the whole journey through Mirkwood forest, the defeat of Smaug, and the Battle of 5 Armies at the end....
I absolutely loved the LOTR movies, I hope they make The Hobbit equally amazing.

has any one read the unfinished tales or any of the history of middle-earth?

boine said:

Yes. Have you read The Smith of Wootton Major?

no but sounds interesting

It's my favorite Tolkien dealy. It's like 70 pages.

the Tolkien Reader has some good storys

boine said:

I had a "Tolkien Reader" that was composed mainly of stories that influenced him and like 2 things he wrote. It was pretty great.

Best work Tolkien ever authored was "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil."

the best thing he authored was the Silmarillion it was a crazy tale

oh man the battle of five armies is going to rule. they should get The Great Khali to play Beorn.

Fuck_Logging_In_NLI said:

Zowie.

thuringwethil said:

he's def. scarier in the cartoon. Can't wait for this though the cartoon will still always be my favorite.

I'd feel better if Jackson were directing this, but I can think of very few ways that someone could fuck up The Hobbit.

I demand a 9 hour Silmarilion epic movie.

xmikex said:

It'd be a massive commercial flop, and completely unintelligible to the casual viewer. I'd buy 3 copies.

When I was like a junior in high school I had this dream that Emperor (this is before all their crappy albums came out) made this totally epic movie based off the beginning of the Silmarillion. The character based off Melkor was a woman, and looked like the broad from the inside of the Cradle of Filth "Cruelty and the Beast" cd. There were firestorms, and these huge landscapes of ice. It was the most absurdly epic dream I've ever had. Imagine my disappointment when a year later this movie had never been made, and Emperor released IX Equilibrium.

IX Equilibrium is amazing, and you're dumb for not thinking so

On it's own it's a decent album. But following Anthems, and Nightside Eclipse... come on. Seriously, come on.

NEVERPURIFIED NLI said:

They did kind of jump the shark with that one. I like it all the same, but it's kind of a disappointing direction for them to take when you're expecting a followup to Anthems. I actually like Prometheus way better.

only Thou Shalt Suffer is real.

"Big sunglasses, not Emperor sunglasses. Big, BIG sunglasses. Very important. Always big sunglasses, cool band."

DestroyYouAlot said:

IX is better than Anthems. I don't know why everyone jocks that album so hard, it's not that great IMO. The production fucking sucks.

Hordane's Land > In The Nightside Eclipse > IX Eqilibrium > Wrath of the Tyrant > Anthems > Prometheus

Prometheus is definitely the worst.

ok back to the matter at hand, The Hobbit will rule.

ExploitationofMistakes said:

Now there's a worthwhile critique. The production on Anthems sucks, but not Wrath of the Tyrant and Nightside Eclipse? Gotta be kidding. I thought black metal was supposed to have shitty production anyways?

I do agree though that Nightside Eclipse, and the Enslaved split might be better than Anthems.

xmikex said:

Way to try to sound like you know what I'm talking about douchewrangler.

The production on those records is far superior (although obviously much more poorly recorded and mastered) than Anthems. That has to do with the way Anthems was mixed. Anthems has a pervasiveness of synth and an emptiness of guitar tone that I utterly despise and gives me a headache if I listen more than a few songs at a time.

Anthems rules your soul.

But that's just me and I'm just being an argumentative asshole. You're a funny shit xmikex. One of the few people on this board that doesn't make me wanna rip my hair out when reading their posts.

We obviously we disagree on what "production" includes. And what exactly it means to wrangle a douche.

http://movies.ign.com/articles/849/849112p1.html

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the announcement was made at the French premiere of the del Toro-produced thriller The Orphanage. "Today is a big day because we are announcing what everyone wanted to hear, which is that he will be directing The Hobbit," the host reportedly told the audience as he introduced del Toro.

boine said:

del torro is on his way to becoming god

he wants to do a harry potter movie, hellboy 2 is going to be gold, he is making another civil war esque movie, and at the mountains of madness



I hope the hobbit doesn't push back at the mountains of madness, I iwll be pissed

Where as I usually don't supports Hollywood's desire to lay claim on every other form of art, I must say, I think The Hobbit is a story much more fit for a really big and goofy movie.