The Hobbit 3 spoilers: details about the Battle of Five Armies

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[Perdogg]

Spoilers and details of the third installment of The Hobbit franchise, called The Battle of Five Armies, are making fans excited as the first look draws near

[LonePalm]

This ring and no other was made by the Elves
Who'd pawn their on mother to grab it themselves.

If bust or broken it cannot be remade.
If found, send to Sorehead. (The postage is prepaid.)

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Jim from C-Town]

I have to be completely honest. I loved the Lord of the Rings and Jackson did a great job of telling the story. He left out Tom Bombadil for some reason. I am also a very big fan of The Hobbit. I have read the Hobbit at least a dozen times. I have read it to my oldest son twice and will read it to my other sons when they get a little older.

That being said: I fell asleep during the Hobbit’s second movie installment. The entire franchise is TOO DAMN LONG and has too many parts not in the book.

It should have been a scene for scene account of the actual book which is a children’s book after all. A single three hour movie would do more justice than this over wrought trilogy.

[LibertarianLiz]

And I read somewhere that the actor who plays Thorin, Richard Armitage, has said that the ending follows the book. Let’s wait until the movie is actually being shown before we start hating on it because it is leaving out something that we found essential in the book. Then, we can judge what is actually on the screen.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I think they are making all these Tolkien movies because they’ve already built most of the sets.

This is the strategy that Gene Rodenberry used to get a Star Trek series back on television.

He figured that if he could get a Star Trek movie made it would drum up renewed interest and all the props and sets (mostly) would just be sitting around all paid for. Seems to have worked like a charm.

[HangnJudge]

Smaug Dies
Bilbo Lives

Silly little ring goes on to cause a LOT of trouble

[LibertarianLiz]

Agreed.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A single three hour movie would do more justice than this over wrought trilogy.

I've always thought that the Rankin-Bass animated version of The Hobbit with Orson Bean voicing Bilbo and John Huston voicing Gandalf was a gem. Very entertaining and true to the book.

[EinNYC]

Looks like an elfin vampire. Hey, there’s another franchise...

[EinNYC]

You forgot the Orcnado! Orcs came raining down in a cyclonic storm...

[Jonty30]

Jackson is on record as having said that nonTolkien fans would have found Bombadil confusing and it wasn’t essential to the story, as much as we would have wanted to see it.

I can agree that it would have been very confusing and distracting, because the Hobbits were on the run for their lives against ever-present danger, but they could stay with, Bombadil practically forever, not to mention that this ring supposedly got everybody it touch addicted to wanting oower, but to him it had about as much hold on him as a cheap trinket would have on you or I?

[BlueLancer]

"I've always thought that the Rankin-Bass animated version of The Hobbit with Orson Bean voicing Bilbo and John Huston voicing Gandalf was a gem. Very entertaining and true to the book."

And casting Richard Boone as the voice of Smaug was inspired. An exceptional scene when an invisible Bilbo is first facing Smaug who continually calls him a "thief".

[schurmann]

Funny you should mention it...

Aidan Turner starred in the first three seasons of the BBC version of Being Human, where he played a vampire.

[Tanniker Smith]

And he’s the reason that the vampire on the American version of the series was renamed “Aidan”.

[Rebelbase]

Does Tyrion lead the Lannister clan?

[Delta Dawn]

E, you may be one of the greatest posters in Freeper history. I am definitely unable to follow your train of thought on this thread.

Maybe you have found a worm hole here on FreeRepublic that allows you to mind-post to whatever thread that you desire.

Please help me understand...

[tumblindice]

I just saw the Red Box ‘Desolation of Smaug’ and was underwhelmed. I don’t recall a romance between Killi and Evangeline Lilly’s character (or her character for that matter), the wooden tubs were sealed/the ridiculous fight with the Orcs never happened, where did Legolas come from?, Smaug v. Bilbo was disappointing, yecchhh .....

[schurmann]

I haven’t seen the US version yet. One of these days.

Turner has also played a werewolf in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Don’t bother watching. It’s terrible.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And casting Richard Boone as the voice of Smaug was inspired.

Yes! I'd forgotten. I especially love the scene when Smaug rises up and tells Bilbo a thing or two about himself...spreading his wings and puffing out his chest. But he also revealed that one little flaw. Soon to be his downfall.

[OpusatFR]

Thorin lives?!

That’s absurd. He dies as redemption of his avarice. I don’t believe for a minute that Peter Jackson changed the ending of the book.

~Or I’ve had way to much bourbon to read the article correctly.

[Mr Rogers]

I think a couple of 100 minute movies, with Sam narrating the story to his kids, would cover it and keep it true to the spirit of the book.