'The Hobbit' Part 3..Richard Armitage Teases Ending of Film Being Different from Tolkien's Version?

ENSTARS ^ | By Natasha Taggart, ENSTARS / Mar 31, 2014 01:49 PM EDT

[Perdogg]

In a recent interview, Richard Armitage revealed that he was quite emotional about the completion of the trilogy.

The 42-year-old actor spoke with BANG Showbiz about finally wrapping the trilogy and how now that the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogy was completed, he was very moved.

"It will be 15 years of Peter Jackson's work, there'll be six movies to watch, but it could be the final time. There's something moving about that," he said.

[moovova]

“The Hobbit, Part 3”

Sounds like it might come up a little short.

[Boogieman]

Actually, if you read the article the actor says nothing of the sort, the interviewer just “wondered” about it, and then the actor shot the idea down.

[cloudmountain]

Iirc Frodo, Sam, Merri and Pippin showed back up to a very different/changed Shire. Then kicked some serious a** fixing it.
Think Arnold Schwartzenegger as Hamlet in the only good scene from Last Action Hero,
;-)

Hamlet? Then Roseanne Barr could be his Juliet.

Harharhar.

[Boogieman]

They left out the whole “Scouring of the Shire”, except for hints of it in a nightmare.

[Ramius]

Ahh "The Scouring of the Shire"... Which is a fairly big part of the Hobbits' story.

Well, that's the difference between writing a good book and making a watchable movie. If you'll recall... The main story is about a ring and the ring bearers and the mission to rid middle Earth of its evil. Side story was the restoration of the King to his rightful place. As a movie it was already plenty long and the main story was already told. The scouring would have been small in scope by comparison... But a lot of screen time. It was enough movie already. And Jackson didn't ignore it completely... He gave space to the scouring when Frodo was using Galadriel's mirror.

[Billthedrill]

Well, we can speculate. Bilbo and the Necromancer have a furious swordfight in Dol Guldur and when Bilbo is nearly defeated the Necromancer reveals himself and sez, "Bilbo, I am your father." Bilbo escapes, steals the golden idol head, and runs like mad from Dol Guldur pursued by a giant rolling boulder. Then he throws a bomb down a ventilation shaft and the entire evil castle blows up. Alderaan is saved.

Wait, scratch that. The Shire is saved. I'm still working on the screenplay.

[Ingtar]

Guessing from the second film, Legolas saves the day by shooting Smaug.

[Mad Dawgg]

"The main story is about a ring and the ring bearers and the mission to rid middle Earth of its evil."

Oh yeah "the evil" like "the evil" that moved right into the Hobbits' home and took over in the guise of one of Sauron's minion's Saruman A.K.A Sharkey...

yeah just minor little bits of the story... [/sarc]

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

I never thought that the Scouring of the Shire was as central a portion to the story as some apparently did. For me, the most inexcusable variation from the book was having Frodo push Gollum into the Crack of Doom instead of Gollum having his own obsession with the Ring cause him to become off balance in his infatuation with evil and topple over to meet his death.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

I would wonder who the Secretary of State would like to see Khun Sa play the role of.

[Ramius]

Some of the changes maybe didn’t need to be done... But I understand why they were done. There’s Sooo many characters in LOTR. Lots of strong roles in the book that would frankly be confusing in the movie. The pace of a movie has to be faster, and introducing too many one-appearance characters makes a movie choppy and hard to follow. The movie already had several strong male and female roles to develop and just didn’t need any more.

[tanknetter]

Hamlet? Then Roseanne Barr could be his Juliet.

The scene was done at the height of his game as a 1980s/1990s action hero. Very tongue-in-cheek, but seriously awesome and probably one of the best scenes he's ever done, at least from the perspective of any young boy who ever had to suffer through Lawrence Olivier's Hamlet.

You can experience the epic awesomeness of it here

[SengirV]

The whole point of the “scouring if the shire” is that it IS world as it exists in the forth age compared to the third age. The last of the elves are leaving middle earth, the last of the ancient good and evil that have been around since the first age - the world is VERY different now. The point is that man and man-kind are on their own. They have to do things for themselves. The scouring of the shire was the first crisis that the returning hobbits had to handle completely on their own.

It sets the bridge between the magical world of old, and a world that will transition to one like our own. The events will fade away to legend, myth, and eventually become simply unbelievability.

The movie was a complete rip off and a bastardized “Americanized” sickeningly sweet ending that ruins the movie, IMHO.

[Flag_This]

"The movie was a complete rip off and a bastardized “Americanized” sickeningly sweet ending that ruins the movie, IMHO."

Peter Jackson is a New Zealander, so, if anything, it was Kiwi-ized.

[cloudmountain]

FABULOUS scenes. Hahaha.
His lighter was like the one my dad used to have. That unmistable sound of the lighter opening up.
Thank you for sharing.

I hear that there might be another "Terminator" movie.

I LOVED it when he was our "Governator"--loved it.

[LibertarianLiz]

I had forgotten how dark the ending to The Hobbit was

Yes, I was bummed by the ending of The Hobbit as well. Thorin I could understand, I guess; but, Kili and Fili as well. I guess I have grown to used to the "heroes" always surviving.

[ClearCase_guy]

Well, Tolkien lost almost every friend he had during WWI. He was at the Somme and lucky to get out alive. He knew that war means loss.

[Olog-hai]

You also angry at Stanley Kubrick for omitting Chapter 21 from his version of A Clockwork Orange?

Or maybe one could argue that the book’s ending was a more “Americanized” (if I understand your definition of the term) ending than where the film cuts off, at Chapter 20. The omitted chapter has Alex meeting his old “droog” Pete at a tea shop, who reformed and was married with a young wife, which leads to Alex’s own reformation.

[Ramius]

Again... Great for the book. Not for a movie.

[Ready4Freddy]

One of the more glaring changes/additions, to me anyway, was the appearance of the Elves at the Battle of Helm’s Deep.

That and the elimination of the Ents’ contribution to the end of the battle.