So Who Saw the "Hobbit" Movie??

[dawn_felagund]

My Tolkien-nerd card will not be revoked this year, as I went to the midnight showing last night! :^D If you want to share your thoughts on the new movie, feel free to use this thread to do so.

Also, for January's newsletter, we will be collecting links from members' discussions and reviews of the new movie. (As explained in past posts, we are staying away from professional and non-member reviews because other groups are able to handle this flood much better than we can.) So if you've posted something on your journal and would like to share a link here, please do! I'll make another reminder post closer to the end of the month.

Comments

[hhimring]

I've seen it. I enjoyed it.

I think considering what a balancing act it was--very different kinds of source material and also quite a wide range of target groups--they did really well. I could sort of see why they did even a few things I myself personally wasn't so keen on.

But if PJ ever does a Silmarillion movie (which I don't think he will), I can already see Fingon slithering hundreds of yards down Thangorodrim with Maedhros dangling from his hand and shouting "Noooo!" as he sways back and forth, before he jumps on Thorondor's back and flies away into the sunset!

[dawn_felagund]

Cliffhanger icon for your last paragraph, which made me LOL. ;)

considering what a balancing act it was

That's my feeling exactly. I feel like the source material for TH--although so much shorter and less complicated--was actually much more difficult to work into a movie like this. LotR had a sense of coherence that TH lacks and no shortage of subplots to provide a measure of closure to each individual movie. And, of course, it was less comic and whimsical, which I would have personally found very difficult to work with, my preference being for darker stories.

But if PJ ever does a Silmarillion movie (which I don't think he will)

So far, the Tolkien Estate still holds the film rights for the Silm, and I don't see that changing as long as Christopher lives. Of course, Christopher is getting up there in years, so ... I could see the Silm working better as a TV series than a movie, personally. I'm caught between curiosity of what that would look like and absolute horror of how a text like the Silm could be mangled by the wrong person.

But, yes, as I think Indy pointed out, PJ does seem to enjoy his characters dangling suspensefully off of precipices! :D

[nelyo-russandol.livejournal.com]

I can already see Fingon slithering hundreds of yards down Thangorodrim with Maedhros dangling from his hand and shouting "Noooo!" as he sways back and forth, before he jumps on Thorondor's back and flies away into the sunset!

Please, no. Despite the icon, it's not really something to LOL about. I'm cringing at that stunt.

Definitely I don't want them to make the Silm as a movie/TV series..

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I can already see Fingon slithering hundreds of yards down Thangorodrim with Maedhros dangling from his hand and shouting "Noooo!" as he sways back and forth, before he jumps on Thorondor's back and flies away into the sunset!

Ahaha!

But yeah, that's probably exactly how it would happen if PJ made the Silmarillion. x_o And Thorondor would probably be dodging a bunch of Orcs on flying creatures and geysers of lava and stuff as he flew them out of there.