The Hobbit
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If you read the book you should...^Should I know what this refers to?
Bilbo uses the One Ring to take a cup from Smaug's hoard. Smaug is not happy... cue him leaving the mountain for the first time in years and going after the people of Laketown, which is the demolition of Smaug...
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But first, Smaug has
a nice deduction scene after a riddle game with Bilbo, and in said deduction he guesses who and how many are coming with the Hobbit, from where and their purpose. I hope he goes to his "mind palace" while doing so
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^^Smaug is one of the more amusing and smart dragons in literature...
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i wonder if Smaug has the Smaug Scan
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I don't own the LotR movies on Blu yet so this is what I'm also hoping for.
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Ditto. I've still got the 2-disc extended edition DVDs that you have to swap out in the middle, and I don't own The Hobbit yet, because I'm biding my time for a super boxset.
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I actually haven't watched LotR in *years*.
I told myself next time I'm gonna watch it, it has to be in HD.
I actually can't wait to see the movies again but I'm biding my time until the Complete box set. I hope we won't have to wait too long after the release of The Hobbit 3.
I told myself next time I'm gonna watch it, it has to be in HD.
I actually can't wait to see the movies again but I'm biding my time until the Complete box set. I hope we won't have to wait too long after the release of The Hobbit 3.
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I'm doing a grinding weekend for a day watching LoTR because Nazguls are awesome and Hobbits are fun to chill with. A hop skip jog after I will watch Hobbit.
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I actually haven't watched LotR in *years*.
I told myself next time I'm gonna watch it, it has to be in HD.
I actually can't wait to see the movies again but I'm biding my time until the Complete box set. I hope we won't have to wait too long after the release of The Hobbit 3.
Its beautiful! Its one of the few movies I like seeing at higher then 24fps, im not usually a fan of the "soap opera effects" look but I have to say it does LotR justice
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OMGICAN'TEXPRESSHOWIFEELABOUTSMAUG'SVOICE. TOOMUCH,TOOMUCH. 
also, Majestic is majestic even while jumping outrunning Smaug's fire because Majestic doesn't look at explosions.
just sad about the whole Mirkwood romantic/whaterever it's about subplot. totally unnecesary. (especially since it looks like the mirkwood version of the whole Aragorn/Arwen lovestory in the movies, which was basically the Beren/Luthien story. i'm growning tired of Thingol wannabe, and Thranduil seem to really want to be Thingol 2.0). yeah I don't like too much Sindar, I prefer Noldor.
also, Majestic is majestic even while jumping outrunning Smaug's fire because Majestic doesn't look at explosions.
just sad about the whole Mirkwood romantic/whaterever it's about subplot. totally unnecesary. (especially since it looks like the mirkwood version of the whole Aragorn/Arwen lovestory in the movies, which was basically the Beren/Luthien story. i'm growning tired of Thingol wannabe, and Thranduil seem to really want to be Thingol 2.0). yeah I don't like too much Sindar, I prefer Noldor.
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I think everyone (in ME, not Valinor) is trying be the Noldor as they do kinda manage to "get it all" and "be there/involved for everything important". Thing with the Sindar is, they missed out on a lot by not going to Valinor ASAP. I think they're trying to play cultural/influence "keep up with the Jones" and will never catch up to the Noldor because they weren't around in the golden age of Vilinor before Morgoth wrecked everything.
Never mind that the Noldor committed the most atrocities out of all the elves to get where they are...
The thing with Tolkien though, is that he tends to break the "show, don't tell the story" "rule". And that tends to leave a lot more up to people's imaginations and the way they interperate events/characters. Also, the Hobbit was the first ME book he wrote, so it has even more unspecified stuff then LOTR or even Sillmarilion does. My response to the added stuff in the Hobbit is that Tolkien never specified what exactly happened during events, just that the events happened. How they happened? That's left up to the reader.
Fantasy story-telling has changed a lot since Tolkien too, so that doesn't help either.
Never mind that the Noldor committed the most atrocities out of all the elves to get where they are...
The thing with Tolkien though, is that he tends to break the "show, don't tell the story" "rule". And that tends to leave a lot more up to people's imaginations and the way they interperate events/characters. Also, the Hobbit was the first ME book he wrote, so it has even more unspecified stuff then LOTR or even Sillmarilion does. My response to the added stuff in the Hobbit is that Tolkien never specified what exactly happened during events, just that the events happened. How they happened? That's left up to the reader.
Fantasy story-telling has changed a lot since Tolkien too, so that doesn't help either.
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well, it's not exactly true that the Noldor committed the most atrocities out of all the elves to get where they are. the Feanoreans (who are a particular kind of Noldor, since Feanor is a special case) commited a lot of atrocities because of Feanor being Feanor and because of the Oath. true, Fingolfin and sons took part too at the first kinslaing, but mostly because Fingolfin was trying to make peace with Feanor and becasue Feanor is very good to control people with speeches, especially when there's chaos.
in the Silmarillion iirc Thingol "closed" the Doriath because of Morgoth return, but he never allowed the Noldor to come in (except for Galandriel, who is a special case) so he basically isolated the Sindar much more than he did simply staing in the Beleriand instead of going to valinor.
i think that the best exemple is the confrontation between "pure sindar" and "Sindar/Noldor" mix is Lothlorien (which is a mix of Noldor and Sindar) and Greenwood/Mirkwood (where there are only Sindar so, in my mind at least, is more like "another Doriath").
yeah, i know they can add stuff because there is nobody who can deny if something really happened or not, but this subplot about Legolas and Tauriel (who seem more and more Mary Sue-ish) is totally unnecesary.
in the Silmarillion iirc Thingol "closed" the Doriath because of Morgoth return, but he never allowed the Noldor to come in (except for Galandriel, who is a special case) so he basically isolated the Sindar much more than he did simply staing in the Beleriand instead of going to valinor.
i think that the best exemple is the confrontation between "pure sindar" and "Sindar/Noldor" mix is Lothlorien (which is a mix of Noldor and Sindar) and Greenwood/Mirkwood (where there are only Sindar so, in my mind at least, is more like "another Doriath").
yeah, i know they can add stuff because there is nobody who can deny if something really happened or not, but this subplot about Legolas and Tauriel (who seem more and more Mary Sue-ish) is totally unnecesary.
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I don't know, I forgot everything about the trailer as soon as I heard Smaug's voice. Dragons can cloud your mind, you know 
But, that scene where Thorin is blocking Bilbo's path with a sword tells me that
But, that scene where Thorin is blocking Bilbo's path with a sword tells me that
the Arkenstone will be shown!