Tried to post this earlier but my wifi got wonky. Feel free to discuss - what do you think of Radagast? What's the crystal table thingy? Bilbo seems pretty confident around Gollum, doesn't he?

Yup, there's going to be THREE Hobbit films. Not many facts known yet, except a planned SUMMER 2014 release for the third and it doesn't affect the release dates of the first two. It's not the famous "bridge movie" that was planned years ago, rather they're just stretching their TH + LOTR appendices + non canonical inventions stuff over three films ( Read more... )

So is everyone playing over at tumblr or just too lazy to post anything?

Christopher Tolkien recently gave a rare interview, from which we learn nothing new really, but it's still worth reading for an alternative view point to our life choices.
original in French (oh the irony),
English translationIn movie news, Comic-con is happening as we ( Read more... )

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=85322

Quint, one of the bloggers on Ain't It Cool has been posting about his experiences on the set of The Hobbit in a series of articles called "An Unexpected Journey"

They are huge, so am going to post the links so anyone interested can read his reports.

Part One: Concerning Hobbiton

Part Two: They Call Me Mr Chubb

Part Three: Beginnings And ( Read more... )

Peter Jackson has updated his Facebook with a fourth video of progress on The Hobbit, this time detailing the 3D aspects of the production.

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I have to admit, 3D is something I currently actively avoid if I can help it, but the brief glimpses we see of Mirkwood etc are making me think I'm gonna risk it, just purely to see how much effort they have ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen this already, drop everything and watch it now! I thought the second one was wonderful with all the NZ prettiness but this one. Just. OMG.

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I. Just. Can't. Even. There's Galadriel, singing dwarves, Christopher Lee and a Take That reference. This so fixes a terrible week.

Click for larger pictures of each. theonering.net has much larger pics so we can really see all the details.


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*fingers crossed that this embed works for lj*

Non-spoilery parts: Lij will go to NZ in October. Still considers it second home and is excited to be working with some of the old cast & crew again.
Umm. The rest isn't hard to guess or ~huge~ spoilers but it was nice to get a confirmation for what his part in the films is about.



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