Saw it over on Screened. Super excited. Though I liked the batman trailer more lol.

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I liked it better when it was called Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs

This is bad.

This makes a great trailer for another LoTR movie, not a Hobbit movie.

The tone is all wrong and it just feels wrong to me.

I am the opposite of optimistic.

Amazing.

Super exited for this. The Hobbit is probably my favourite book.

Why's Thorin Oakenshield look young? Seriously, he was the oldest of the 12 dwarves on this mission! Hmmm, I do like the tone they took with this though. Not bad. Its been a long time coming, and I just am ready for this now.

Dwarfs. That is all <33333333333333333

I read twenty pages of the Hobbit and then put it down. I found the One Ring trilogy much better.
 
*Expects incoming artillery fire*

I read twenty pages of the Hobbit and then put it down. I found the One Ring trilogy much better.
 
*Expects incoming artillery fire*

@RainEffect said:

I read twenty pages of the Hobbit and then put it down. I found the One Ring trilogy much better.

*Expects incoming artillery fire*

>:(

To be honest, I think this movie looks like it could be really good, but we'll have to approach it with the same mindset that we had to approach X-Men First Class and the Batman series.
If we expect the story and the characters to be exactly the same as what we know, we'll be sorely disappointed. The Batman movies are great, but they're very little like the comic version of Batman. There's no real detective work in them. There were dozens of things that could have made me hate X-Men First Class if I had given in to my inner fanboy.
But, all of those movies turned out great to watch as long as we kept in mind that they weren't supposed  to be exactly like the originals. New writers and new medium of storytelling means new story.

That's basically what I think about this movie. "Peter Jackson + film" simply can not create the same product as "JRR Tolkien + book." It's a different storyteller and a different medium through which to tell it. If I watch this movie expecting it to be just like the book was, I'll hate it. If I watch this movie with the understanding it can't  and won't  be just like the book and is instead it's own entity, I think it will be a very good movie.

@RainEffect: It is a very different book. Tolkien wrote it with a younger audience in mind.

@RainEffect said:

I read twenty pages of the Hobbit and then put it down. I found the One Ring trilogy much better.
 
*Expects incoming artillery fire*

It is one of my favorite books, but it's not for everyone. The first chapter, in particular, is incredibly boring. But if you can trudge your way through chapter 1, it gets much better.

I read twenty pages of the Hobbit and then put it down. I found the One Ring trilogy much better.
 
*Expects incoming artillery fire*

If it is anything like the Lord of the Rings I will absolutely love this. I'm a fan of that old animated movie that came out sometime before I was born, so I've got some real high hopes for this pict-OH I FORGOT ABOUT SMAUG. This is going to be in two parts? Part two is going to be freaking epic.

Wait....i thought the actor who played Gandalf died....

Wait....i thought the actor who played Gandalf died....

AMAZING!

@buttersdaman000

Wait....i thought the actor who played Gandalf died....

It's possible you're thinking of the first actor who played Dumbledore.

Whee!

Cant believe we have to wait a year to watch this.

Kili, Fili, Oin, Gloin, Dwalin, Balin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Nori, Ori, and Thorin! Lol! 
I'm SOOOO excited for this!!!!!! jkfh klfdk I don't even

@The Cramoisi Fleur said:

I liked it better when it was called Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs

Meh! didn't like the other Lord of the Rings movies. Going to dislike this one too.

Far over the Misty Mountains cold,

To dungeons deep and caverns old.

The pines were roaring on the heights,

The wind was moaning in the night,

The fire was red, it flaming spread,

The trees like torches blazed with light.

@Decoy Elite said:

This is bad.

This makes a great trailer for another LoTR movie, not a Hobbit movie.

The tone is all wrong and it just feels wrong to me.

I am the opposite of optimistic.

Pessimistic?

Crawls back into the hole he came out of.

@ReVamp: Not strong enough a word.

@Decoy Elite: I'm just saying, the opposite of Optimistic is pessimistic. To be honest though, I think that the reason they're doing this this way is because that's what Peter Jackson does the best and let's face it, its what's going to sell.

Everyone in my office was cracking up during the chanting part of the trailer. 

@ReVamp: Yeah, and what he doesn't isn't making an actual The Hobbit adaptation.

@Decoy Elite said:

@ReVamp: Yeah, and what he doesn't isn't making an actual The Hobbit adaptation.

Touché

Everyone in my office was cracking up during the chanting part of the trailer. 

@texasdeathmatch said:

Everyone in my office was cracking up during the chanting part of the trailer. 

Chanting? 

how come there aren't any black folks in movies like this ? 

Meh.

@King Saturn said:

how come there aren't any black folks in movies like this ? 

I presume it's because it's set in middle earth, which is the "middle" continent and an analogy of Europe, the "black folks" where easterlings and southrons and came from well the east and south  

@spiderbat87 said:

@King Saturn said:

how come there aren't any black folks in movies like this ? 

I presume it's because it's set in middle earth, which is the "middle" continent and an analogy of Europe, the "black folks" where easterlings and southrons and came from well the east and south  

that figures... tired of watching 2 - 3 hour films where a bunch of white folks go on some adventure for some artifact or something.. 

@King Saturn said:

@spiderbat87 said:

@King Saturn said:

how come there aren't any black folks in movies like this ? 

I presume it's because it's set in middle earth, which is the "middle" continent and an analogy of Europe, the "black folks" where easterlings and southrons and came from well the east and south  

that figures... tired of watching 2 - 3 hour films where a bunch of white folks go on some adventure for some artifact or something.. 

well it was wrote by old English guy in the 1930s, he had probably never seen a black guy in his life

@Illuminatus said:

@texasdeathmatch said:

Everyone in my office was cracking up during the chanting part of the trailer. 

Chanting? 

Sorry, meant when they all started singing their Dwarven hymn or whatever. 

@spiderbat87 said:

@King Saturn said:

how come there aren't any black folks in movies like this ?

I presume it's because it's set in middle earth, which is the "middle" continent and an analogy of Europe, the "black folks" where easterlings and southrons and came from well the east and south

Well, that's not exactly right. It's called Middle Earth because The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were inspired by Norse Mythology and in Norse Mythology there are several planes of existence and humanity and earth are in the middle of all the planes, in the realm called "Midgard", which translates into "Middle Earth". So Tolkein just took that name and made it the name for their universe.

The reason why there aren't any black characters in these stories is because it's based on Norse Mythology and in medieval Europe, there were few if any black people in that region. Putting them in wouldn't necessarily be wrong. But it's kind of like insisting that there should be eskimos in a Japanese samurai film.

Gollum's back.

Don't need to know anything else. I'm watching this.

That song...can't get it out of my head!

@spiderbat87 said:

@King Saturn said:

how come there aren't any black folks in movies like this ?

I presume it's because it's set in middle earth, which is the "middle" continent and an analogy of Europe, the "black folks" where easterlings and southrons and came from well the east and south

Well, that's not exactly right. It's called Middle Earth because The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings were inspired by Norse Mythology and in Norse Mythology there are several planes of existence and humanity and earth are in the middle of all the planes, in the realm called "Midgard", which translates into "Middle Earth". So Tolkein just took that name and made it the name for their universe.

The reason why there aren't any black characters in these stories is because it's based on Norse Mythology and in medieval Europe, there were few if any black people in that region. Putting them in wouldn't necessarily be wrong. But it's kind of like insisting that there should be eskimos in a Japanese samurai film.

No offense to Toilken fans..but i couldn't care less about this movie