The Hobbit...Trilogy?

[Crono]

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+ no sources = April Fool's (you all knew this and were playing along, of course 😉).
At any rate, The Hobbit should only be one movie. Not as "epic" as the other books, which all received one movie each (but could have gone on longer).

 

[zerocool84]

Yep 3 is not needed. Just trying to milk more money like Starcraft 2.

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: barfo
Greedy bastards :disgust:

GREEEED!

They'll spend 6 hours with characters emptily staring/musing about stuff ala Dragonball Z.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Radagast.

I'm glad I'm not the only person to know that. :laugh:[/quote]

Wasn't he like the laid back pot smoking (well, they all smoke weed) wizard?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: nkgreen

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Radagast.

I'm glad I'm not the only person to know that. :laugh:

Wasn't he like the laid back pot smoking (well, they all smoke weed) wizard?

There wasn't much written of him other than Gandalf mentioning he met with him at some point and Saruman calling him lazy and stupid. Of course Saruman was a textbook evil guy so of course he'd insult his enemies, but he may have been on to something. Saruman easily deceived Radagast into thinking he was still interested in fighting Sauron. Other than that, all he ever really did was hang out and talk to animals. He certainly wasn't nearly as powerful as Gandalf, or at the very least, he had no desire to actually use that power.

 

[Merithynos]

I hope this is false...LoTR should have been 6 movies (and much less Arwen), while the Hobbit will be a stretch for two. As much as I loved the movies, I am still irked at the lack of Tom Bombadil, the barrow wights, the trip home, and especially the scouring of the Shire. Killing Saruman by flinging him off the Orthanc was a cop out.

 

[Wag]

Saruman was considered a good guy up until LoTR anyways (up until he started looking into the Palantir and went insane).

As for Tom Bombadill, considering he owned one of The Rings, he was a fairly powerful character (but really didn't do much)...

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Wag
Saruman was considered a good guy up until LoTR anyways.

As for Tom Bombadill, considering he owned one of The Rings, he was a fairly powerful character (but really didn't do much)...

He wasn't tempted by it, either.
Without looking it up (my memory is crap), I think Tom Bombadil was easily the most powerful of the beings in Middle-Earth, possibly even more than Sauron.

 

[elmer92413]

Guys this is old news. This has been known for quite awhile.
The first movie will be the Hobbit and then the other one will be all new made up stuff that is supposed to take place between the Hobbit and LotR not Silmarillion stuff. Not surprised that they'd do a third.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: Wag
Saruman was considered a good guy up until LoTR anyways.

As for Tom Bombadill, considering he owned one of The Rings, he was a fairly powerful character (but really didn't do much)...

He wasn't tempted by it, either.
Without looking it up (my memory is crap), I think Tom Bombadil was easily the most powerful of the beings in Middle-Earth, possibly even more than Sauron.

Whoa, wait, Bombadill had a ring? No...

Sauron had the seven dwarf rings (that hadn't been destroyed) and the nine human rings; the three Elven rings and the One Ring were the only ones left. Those belonged to Gandalf, Elrond, and the lady of Lothlorien (plus the traveling One Ring).

Bombadill was special; I don't remember exactly who he was but he had been around since the beginning of time (per The Silmarillion).

 

[Wag]

I thought Tom showed a ring to Frodo? Maybe I remembered it wrong? If so he might have also been The Witch King of Agmar? I don't remember, I haven't read the book in a while.

 

[elmer92413]

Originally posted by: Wag
I thought Tom showed a ring to Frodo? Maybe I remembered it wrong? If so he might have also been The Witch King of Agmar? I don't remember, I haven't read the book in a while.

Frodo showed him the One Ring, he tossed it in the air and made it disappear. Remember when he asked Gandalf about why they just didn't give the ring to Tom to safe guard and Gandalf said Tom was more likely to set it down and lose it then anything. The Ring had no power over him or for him, to him it was just a ring.