The Hobbit may become a trilogy

[johnmiic]

Maybe in 10 years Peter Jackson will come back and do the Silamarillon as a trilogy too!

[TomStrong]

Being a huge fan of anything Tolkien (I only watched a documentary this evening) any opportunity to see something more from Jackson and his crew and their treatment of the professor's work will be met with great anticipation by myself. I hope that more material from Middle Earth can somehow be incorporated in the last film. I appreciate the fact that an adaptation will have to take some license with the original literature, and I loved the films. However, part of me feels guilty somehow at the idea that Tolkien himself would be somehow overwhelmed with what his idea has become. I was always a huuuuuge fan of the Rankin Bass animated film (my 7 year old daughter can sing all the songs). I wvwn found a double LP and illustrated book on ebay in immaculate condition which I treasure. So . . I am wracked with guilt about Tolkien's work being in film again and how he would perceive such things and my great desire to return to Middle Earth again where I have spent so many happy years.

[Hector]

I could barely stay awake watching the LOTR trilogy (watched each film once, and that's it).

Now I have to sit through a Hobbit trilogy?

Perhaps when it comes on Blu-ray...but you are not going to watch me sitting next to "Ring" geeks at a public movie theater...no...this geek will sit besides Superhero and Star Trek geeks...but not Ring geeks...

[Splitty]

...but you are not going to watch me sitting next to "Ring" geeks at a public movie theater...

I would absolutely do that.

I would not, however, 'dress up'.





....okay, I might sneak my Ring replica somewhere in my clothing.

[vulcan2074]

I can't wait to see this movie. I'm excited about the possibilities.
Sammy

[johnmiic]

...but you are not going to watch me sitting next to "Ring" geeks at a public movie theater...no...this geek will sit besides Superhero and Star Trek geeks...but not Ring geeks...

Fill up on sangria before the show. Everything's better with sangria, *hic*.

[Figuremod73]

Maybe in 10 years Peter Jackson will come back and do the Silamarillon as a trilogy too!

Just think of what it would be like to see a younger Sauron (or maybe even the much more powerful Morgoth) on the screen! Move over Darth Vader

A agree alot of artistic license has to be taken, but I feel this is some of the hardest material attempted to be captured on screen.

I was just thinking. Maybe once all three films are finished, someone can go back and edit it and just keep in the material that deals with The Hobbit storyline itself,lol.

[Gorn Captain]

Just think of what it would be like to see a younger Sauron

Sauron, the Mordor Academy years.
Aaah, the pranks he used to play...

[Figuremod73]

It sounds like the kind of place Granny Goodness would oversee

[jwyblejr]

Sauron, the Mordor Academy years.
Aaah, the pranks he used to play...

I understand one of the pranks involved class rings.

[Hector]

Fill up on sangria before the show. Everything's better with sangria, *hic*.

Heck, I'll need straight up tequila to watch this...

[Nostalgiabuff]

http://www.superherohype.com/news/ar...me-three-films

confirmed. a trilogy it will be. looks like they will use material frmo the LOTR appendices to flesh things out

[ctc]

>Just think of what it would be like to see a younger Sauron

....only if he's a precocious 5 year old, who tells Legolas he looks like an angel and wins Shadowfax in a Wraith-race....

Don C.

[enyawd72]

I hate LOTR. There. I said it. Most drawn out, boring, overlong spectacle in the history of film.

Mr. Frodo? Yes Sam? Why did we spend three movies walking to that stupid volcano when we could've flown there just like we flew back in five minutes?
I don't know Sam, but I wish we'd flown, because I'd still have my finger.

[Figuremod73]

I wondered that the first time I read the book. Then someone told me the eagles couldnt get involved.

From IMDb:

The book is more elaborate on this point than the film, and Peter Jackson also explains the reason during the audio commentary on the dvd. The Eagles did not take sides in the War of the Ring until the end, so they would not have assisted Frodo when he started his quest. This is similar to the Ents, who only participated when they felt they were drawn in by Saruman. The Eagles are also very proud creatures, who will not allow themselves to be used as just a means of transportation. The Eagle, Gwahir, that rescued Gandalf (Ian McKellen) from the tower of Saruman (Christopher Lee) did so as a special service to Gandalf, whom he knew personally (Gandalf had previously saved his life). In addition to this, there are allusions that while Sauron was still in power, the Eagles would have struggled getting to Mount Doom, not least because of the wraiths on their fell-beasts and other dark creatures and powers that Sauron had at his disposal. Sending Frodo on the back of an eagle into Mount Doom would have been effectively air-mailing the ring to Sauron. A ground-based approach was decided to be much more effective and appropriate. Finally, the ring corrupts the proud much more easily than the humble. While there is no proof that the ring has the same effect on an Eagle as it does for men, there may have been too much risk in tempting the extremely proud Eagles.