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10-07-2012, 08:09 PM
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Re: 3 Hobbit Films indignation
The Lord of the Rings is the greatest film ever made, and I will fight anyone who disagrees. So there's that.
Secondly, they're not merely cutting the text of The Hobbit up into 3 films. Even as a dedicated Tolkien reader, I admit that would be foolish. However, there is a lot of other stuff going on simultaneously with the story of The Hobbit - Gandalf leaving them in parts to deal with "the Necromancer in Dol Guldur," who turns out to SPOILER SPOILER turn out to be Sauron, the White Council fighting him, Saruman starting to slip slowly from greatness to evil. There's tons of other material to work with in interstitial or prelude or postscript form, without even going into other books like The Silmarillion (which it is simply not possible to turn into a film without editing it with a machete, since it covers several thousand years of history as a chronicle rather than a single narrative). I have no concerns about this not working because Peter Jackson is working in Middle Earth again. Three more movies can't possibly be a bad thing.
Oh, also, Fogger, if you want a super articulated giant spider, the Shelob figure from the Toybiz line from the Lord of the Rings films certainly fits the bill. She is unbelievably terrifying and gross.
Well it's good that they're working in a lot of the concurrent material that's not explicitly in the book. I loved LotR both in book and movie form, but I've never liked The Hobbit. If these movies go over well, I can see The Silmarillion made into a movie... series.
It would just have to be a bit more compartmentalized, but even just the story of Feanor vs Morgoth would be epic. And even in bite-sized chunks, yeah it would have to be edited/adapted... but that didn't stop LotR from being awesome (still not sure why we needed elves at Helm's Deep, but
).
And maybe Fogger has seen the Shelob figure and isn't satisfied. Maybe he simply can't live without an in-scale Ungoliant figure.
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I'm not sure I'd be able to sleep in the same room with one.
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