The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

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So Tuesday Night is Date Night at the Dollar Theater. But now we play D&D on Tuesdays, so Monday Night is Date Night! And the second Hobbit movie was finally flat enough and cheap enough for us to go see. WOOHOO!

Well, I say WooHoo...and I mostly mean WooHoo, but golly, that movie gave me so much approval whiplash. It would go from Awesome to

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Hahahaha Troy. Indeed. And you know, I had the same exact complaint a the time.

But they had him pick up the cup and think about taking it back!
You're right, so they did. It didn't ping that scene for me because it was a fairly generic looking puny goblet thing, rather than a huge two-handled dealy. Which I only mention because I arrived at a love of Beowulf and a love of Tolkien completely independently, and it was specifically the two-handled detail that made me first put them together. And it probably says a lot about me that when I read the line "twelve warriors and their angry king," where most people would go "a-hah! obvious christian allegory!" my brain instead went "ZOMG THE HOBBIT."

But anyway, I did notice him carrying that little cup around for a bit and sort of wondered "so, is that supposed to be the Cup?" but just figured that that plot point had gotten engulfed by the Arkenstone plot. I do not particularly expect the movies to include all of Tolkiens puns that are only funny to him, or preserve his bizarre literary references, as much as I personally happen to enjoy them.

But dragon-sickness is a real thing, right? In canon, I mean? It's like what Shippey says about the Ring: it acts as a psychic amplifier.
We'll probably tallk more about this over at your journal, since your thoughts are super interesting. And that's a fair point about the dragon sickness but...that doesn't seem to be how they're playing it in the movie. It was acting as a corruptive influence on Thror before it had a dragon brooding on it for several hundred years. Like, I thought it was odd how they were playing the Arkenstone in the first movie, but I was like "well, Thror has a ring so...?" And Smaug's lines around it sort of belie that idea as well. I dunno. But more on this anon.

I also wrote a post about this!
I think I missed the sister-sons posts (I should go look for them), but yeah, I think the thing "I was just reading" was probably your post on the subject. I kinda went through your Hobbit tag right after seeing the movie. So yes. Keep writing lots of posts! They're always fantastic. :D

I'm just relieved she's not inspiring Thorin to overcome his elvish prejudices through the Power of Love.
Oh holy... wow that wasn't even on my radar as something to be afraid of. That would have been just awful.