The short version: I liked this film much more than I had anticipated/than I liked the second one (which I was not much a fan of). In fact, I tentatively seem to have liked it quite a bit. Enough to think I want to see it again in the theatre.

The longer and spoilery version:
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[Sorry I've been slowish replying to comments lately.  Brain does not want to perform thinky-tasks.  Anyway ( Read more... )

If anyone hasn't yet seen the trailer, which premiered via the Hobbit films' official FB page earlier today, behold:

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My thoughts on the trailer.
( wheee )

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This is clever.  It wouldn't work for me because I don't see Balin, Fili, or Ori as having the hair colors it describes them with here (is it just me?) but it's cute.

But then again I could already ID them all on sight before the movie even came out because <3 Dwarves.

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My viewing on opening day was swarming with emotions, happy and otherwise, and analysis.  Seeing it again two days ago, I intended to view it in a less invested way, and with a mind to the fact that it’s better to have stuff added to one book than taken away from three books.  A lot of stuff that bothered me the first time, I tuned out or didn’t ( Read more... )

This seems to be the only thing I've actually...er, "written"...in a while.  I wrote it at least a week ago to boot and then simply forgot about it.  WTF is wrong with my brain lately ( Read more... )

I'm stupidly enthused about all the cute little fanart of the Dwarves from The Hobbit.  I'm going to give the film a couple more weeks to stew in my head before seeing it again, but I'm already looking forward to it.  Since I wasn't a Tolkien fan when the LotR films came out, whereas now I'm possibly a bit too immersed for my own good, this trying ( Read more... )

This is probably going to run pretty long (the short version is "loved it, with caveats!").  In the interest of trying to make it ordered and coherent, I'm going to frame it as responses to characters.

Discussion and civil debate welcome.

(  Spoilers ahoy. )

You can hear the "Song of the Misty Mountains" here, and also read a brief article about it.  I'm happy to report that the songwriter, Neil Finn, suggests that "pop music needs more anvil."  What's not to like?

- Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I was startled and delighted to find that some tracks to The Hobbit score are apparently released already.  I reblogged "Radagast the Brown," and since I'm too confuddled and in a hurry to figure out where it's actually sourced from here's a link to my reblog. 
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