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The Hobbit Finally Starts Shooting

Posted by Soulskill on from the victory-after-all-i-suppose dept.

Tiger4 writes "Warner Bros. has announced that production has officially begun on Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Hobbit. Jackson even posted a couple of pictures of himself on one of the sets. This despite the strikes, bankruptcies, contract disputes, and legal actions that have swarmed Jackson and the project since his Lord of the Rings days. Admit it, secretly you've been dying to see this happen."

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  1. Hobbits live longer by tepples · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hobbits also live a bit longer than H. sapiens. They reach "maturity" in their early 30s and expect to live to 100 (source).

  2. Re:I hope there aren't 5 fake death scenes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    He doesn't really need fake death scenes...

    ***Spoiler***

    as a few of the dwarves actually do die in the battle.

  3. the necromancer interlude will be interesting by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Informative

    for those not in the know, they are stretching out the hobbit to two movies, by delving into gandalf sparring with the necromancer (sauron), mentioned in the book only briefly

    http://forum.thehobbit-movie.com/viewtopic.php?p=1929&sid=5d7ebd0d347992d45e1ae7b312077fb6

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  4. Re:No secret I want to see it by Joce640k · · Score: 4, Informative

    Believe it or not The Hobbit was written as a kid's book and LOTR was written for adults.

    (LOTR has plenty of plot holes, you're supposed to enjoy the prose...)

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  5. Re:Characters by Dracos · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some corrections for you, off the top of my head:

    Elijah Wood (Frodo) is coming back to do some narration.

    Orlando Bloom (Legolas) is still negotiating over his appearance.

    Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Christopher Lee (Saruman), and Hugo Weaving (Elrond) are all returning, and of course Ian McKellan (Gandalf).

  6. Re:Characters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, Frodo was born in 2968 and Bilbo left for his adventure 2941. Frodo shouldn't be in the movie at all, seeing as he wasn't born.