fleshconsumed
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Uhmmm, I remember, the Shire, forest Trolls, Rivendell, passage under mountain and Gollum, escape from the mountain with eagles help, Beorn, Mirkwood forest, giant spiders, wood elves, traveling to the dragon layer, stealing crown, dragon rampage and dragon slaying, and the epic battle for the dragon riches after it's dead.
Yes, Hobbit is not as detailed (page wise long) as LotR, but it has plenty of material for two movies, if not three.
ViviTheMage
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there was a part in the Hobbit when Gandalf was all "later bitches" and disappeared for half the book.
it was later revealed (in LotR?) that during that time he and the white council were fighting the necromancer in Mirkwood.
what? Bilbo gets eaten by a willow tree, bombadil saves him and takes him home, bombadil's wife is hot, they sing a lot and bilbo goes on his way, only to get caught by a barrow-wight and bombadil has to come to the rescue again. iirc this is where he gets his mithril armor
Born2bwire
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Replace the word Bilbo with Frodo and then you're right. The mithril armor was a gift from the dwarf king for aiding them in getting back the treasure.
didn't Bilbo get the armor from the troll cave? trying to remember, I haven't read The Hobbit since junior high.
edit: nm, see post above mine!
edit: nm, see post above mine!
You guys are silly. It's a rather short book? Duh, Pirates of the Caribbean got three movies out of an amusement park ride.
If they can get 6 movies out of Star Wars, or all the Rockys, they can do 3 Hobbits.
Of course I'll go see them all.
judasmachine
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No. I loved the Hobbit. I also like LOTR books, but the hobbit was friggin' sweet. Of course I was in Jr. High when I read the hobbit and probably high school / college when I read LOTR....so maybe it was my frame of mind, but I still remember the Hobbit being awesome. I mean, he tricked trolls into stones, he got to ride in some barrels, get some riches, throw firey pine cones at giant wolves.....except *spoiler alert* most of his dwarf buddies die at that end, which sucked.
AstroManLuca
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AstroManLuca
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That'd be kinda hard though given that the Hobbit was Tolkien's first book in Middle Earth and didn't reference that many other things, and what it did reference was mostly explained in LOTR anyway.
I am certain that any attempt at making a film adaptation of the Silmarillion would be doomed to failure. It's impossible to take so much content and condense it into movies. Anything less than the 11 and a half hours of the LOTR extended editions wouldn't do it justice, but anything more would bore the audiences to death. They could probably do ten films on it and still be forced to leave a lot out.
sactoking
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New Line Cinema holds the movie rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. They bought those rights from the Saul Zaentz Company, which got them from Tolkien to settle a debt or something. It had been said in the past that The Hobbit was going to be 2 movies: the first would be The Hobbit proper and the second would be "manufactured" from the appendices of the Lord of the Rings to span the time between the Bilbo story and the Frodo story. It would encompass what Aragorn was up to mostly. My guess is that they're trying to stretch that content into a second movie.
It's not likely that they'd be splitting The Hobbit itself into multiple movies, especially if they have anyone under contract already. Contracts would have to be renegotiated and such, which would be a hassle. It would be much easier to say "Here's this new story, are you in?". Anyone that's not can be written out.
They're not adding any content from the Silmarillion, letters, Children of Hurin, etc. Legally, they can't. The rights to those works are still held by the Tolkien estate, and they refuse to market them.
It's not likely that they'd be splitting The Hobbit itself into multiple movies, especially if they have anyone under contract already. Contracts would have to be renegotiated and such, which would be a hassle. It would be much easier to say "Here's this new story, are you in?". Anyone that's not can be written out.
They're not adding any content from the Silmarillion, letters, Children of Hurin, etc. Legally, they can't. The rights to those works are still held by the Tolkien estate, and they refuse to market them.
Fingolfin269
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I thought the reason they were doing two movies was in order to draw in material from notes, silmarillion, etc. However I thought it was only going to be 2 movies. I'm sure I'd go watch it even if they made it into 15 so I don't really care.
Anubis
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