The Hobbit Rocks!!!

[Hobbit-queen]

:D
Hey! Well, My favorite Tolkien book has to be The Hobbit and I can't wait for Peter Jackson to make the movie. Does anyone have an idea on how soon that may be. I know he's having some problems with the ownership of the movie right now but any info is fine. Um......I'm a hobbit. That's beside the point though.
Anyway, how many people out here think The Hobbit Rocks?! I sure do.

Always,
Hobbit-queen

[Samwise_hero]

I'm not exactly sure of how long it's going to take for 'The Hobbit' to come out as a movie.... but i heard somewhere that PJ is going to be caught up in court cases for about 5 years.... or something like that. i would personally loveto see a 'Hobbit' movie but it seems that others prefer to put a downer on things...
I love the Hobbit as a book. It got me onto reading the LOTR and therefore all things Tolkien. it was the start of my investigation into the greatest writer of all times.

[baragund]

HQ, I thought you halflings no longer associated with us 'Big Folk'. :D Tell me, how did a hobbit get technically savvy enough to work a computer and go online? ;)

But seriously, there is a fair amount of discussion on the making of The Hobbit into a movie over in the movie section. Lots of legal nasty stuff over what movie studio owns the rights to make the movie and and Mr. Jackson being busy with making a new version of King Kong. It'll be several years before we can see The Hobbit in theaters, I'm guessing.

[Dark_Glamdring]

Me! :D
The hobbit rocks indeed


But, again, the movie...uffff

That´s why I´m absolutely worried about the movie :( I just think in my favorite moments and characters ruined... many time spent in useless scenes, overrated characters., the Batlle of 5 armies (just a few 2 or 3 pages of the book) as the main theme of the movie, maybe one hour of the super battle... Gollum even more good and to pity than in LOTR.
Well, definitely, I´m scared. I don´t want to see The Hobbit book ruined as LOTR was. :(

[baragund]

I share your concern, DG, about how The Hobbit will be adapted to film. There is an awful lot packed into that book and it will be hard to faithfully reproduce all of it into a 2, 2 2/2, or even 3 hour movie. Certainly the Battle of Five Armies will take up a lot of the film's running time so you can expect some part of the book will get axed in order to keep the film from running too long. Will it be the trolls? Rivendell? the eagles? Beorn? Any of those can get cut without compromising the basic plot.

Then there is the fact that The Hobbit is a pretty meandering story that is difficult to reproduce well on film. You have a main character, Gandalf, dropping out of the tale from Mirkwood until the battle, two climaxes (the first being the slaying of Smaug and the second being the battle), and a long slow 'epilogue' which is Bilbo's return journey.

But I'm confident Mr. Jackson will solve all those problems and everything will turn out fine! *Baragund dives for cover as he gets pelted with rotten vegetables from all the purists in the forum :D *

[Flame of Udûn]

Rivendell is essential to the plot.

[Hobbit-queen]

Hey guys,

I know what you mean. I was very disapointed when Tom Bombadil didn't make it in the Fellowship of the Ring. I wanted to wring Peter's neck!!! :mad:
I got over it eventually, though many tears and pains.
Yes, I agree the Hobbit is a very complicated book. Something might have to be cut out in order to fit the real points of the story in. It is hard being a director.
I bet Peter didn't WANT to cut out those parts, but had to in order to help the film go in a more strait course and not all over the place if you know what I mean. If you have anything ese to say, be happy to say it! I do hope he makes the movie though. The Hobbit is such an important book to me.

Always,
Hobbit-queen

[King Aragorn]

When I first read The Hobbit my freshman year of high school, I didn't like it, but after I saw the Fellowship of the Ring, and after I read LOTR for the first time, I re-read The Hobbit and I liked it.

[Hobbit-queen]

Yes, I love the Hobbit.

How many times do I have to say that? It is an awesome book, my precioussss...
Ahhhhhh! If you don't know I have hypogulmactic-gollum-dissorder.
I sometimes speak in "Gollumish" yes, yes we are preciousssss.
Can't help it, no we can't! Gollum, Gollum, people make fun of us and hurtsss usssssss.....like those nasty hobbitses, precioussssss....
Oh, yeah! King Aragorn! Please get on your throne and stop Sauron from attacking the Shire. Precious......

Always,
Hobbit-queen

[rohobbits]

well I just wanted to say that I didn't like the hobbit because
I read it when i was in 6th grade. I didn't like it much and it is partly because
of how old i was and how confusing, boring, and really hard to understand.
Well if i read it today i think I would be able to understand it better.

and hobbit-queen I understand how you have a gollum-disorder.
I think i might have it to yesssss preciousssss.

rohobbits

[Miss Rainbow]

:cool: ;) I really like the Hobbits, too; but do you think that maybe, perhaps, the Hobbits, Elves, Dunadine-however you spell that-that's Aragorn-and regular men/women would have intermarried with each race of people perhaps down through the generations till today??? Bilbo Baggins did mention somewhere that later generations would have maybe a little bit of Hobbit in them-obviously from intermarring with the other races mentioned above; Thank you very much.

[Ermundo]

The Hobbit movie may or may not be made.

The Problem with making the Hobbit into a full lenghth movie adaption is that MGM used to own distribution rights but than MGM got brought by Sony a few months ago so now Sony had half the rights to produce the hobbit while Newline has the other half of the rights. It's a copyright conundrum.

So until this issue is solved there won't be no hobbit unfortuanately.


Morgoththe1

[Varokhâr]

Yes, the wonderful world of copyrights, ownership of other people's artistic works, and money. Nothing like squibbling because the right people won't get paid enough money because a book they had nothing to do with got made into a movie, the money-hungry bloodsuckers :rolleyes:

Ah well - the Hobbit wasn't my favorite book of Tolkien's, but it is a favorite overall in fantasy fiction, and I look forward to PJ finally being able to make it into a film. It won't be a perfect film, but there is no such thing. I wish him the best and hope for a speedy resolution of the legal mumbo-jumbo :)

[baragund]

Miss Rainbow, didn't you know that the remains of Hobbits were discovered on one of the islands of Indonesia? A small island off the coast of Java if I recall correctly. They were a race of small people, around 3 1/2 to 4 ft. tall, who lived about 12,000 years ago.

Articles show up about them show up in the newspapers from time to time and there is a thread in our forum (can't remember where:( ) that discusses this.

[Miss Rainbow]

:cool: ;) Baragund, Thank you very much for that information, I appreaciate it! I know I saw somewhere in a magazine, or something about a race of people called Hobbits, but I think they looked more like maybe small cavemen; I know that TLOTR is fiction, but how do we know for sure???? Bilbo Baggins did say that later generations would have a Little bit of Hobbit in them; and my opinion, possibly Elf, Dunadine, regular Men & Women as well as Hobbit; does that sound plausible??? That is way too cool that they found remains of a race of very small people and named them Hobbits! But, there has always been small people living with us for Eons, And Eons of generations, too. Thanks again and God Bless You!