Hobbit movie progressing

[Thinlómien]

Oh my goodness - Ori, Dori and Oin are pretty cool, Bombur is eww, Bofur looks like a lumberjack and Kili is way too good-looking and beardless for a dwarf!

[LadyBrooke]

I am now refusing to refer to most of them by their names....there is StarDwarf, BeardNecklace, Turli, ect....

[Mister Underhill]

Yeah, I can understand the impulse to try to make each dwarf visually distinctive when you're trying to juggle thirteen of the buggers, but there is only one word that applies to most of these designs, and that word is overworked. What's up with the triangle-do, first and foremost? And exactly what is that disgusting loop of hair necklace? "Nori" appears to have cornrows, and "Gloin" has such complicated beard jewelry/braiding that he makes Jack Sparrow look like a piker. Not feeling this, as the kids say.

[Folwren]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Oh my goodness - Ori, Dori and Oin are pretty cool, Bombur is eww, Bofur looks like a lumberjack and Kili is way too good-looking and beardless for a dwarf!

Hey, who says Dwarves aren't good looking?

All in all, they really don't look the way I imagined the dwarves.

Are there any pictures of Thorin yet?

-- Folwren

[LadyBrooke]

Originally Posted by Folwren

Are there any pictures of Thorin yet?

No...Thorin, Dwalin, and Balin are all missing.

For our resident Elrond fan, Screen Shot from the production video thing that shows him and Bilbo on set.....there you go, Mith.

[Mithalwen]

*wub* lovely Hugo in a new frock... splendid, thank you. There are other Hugo fans you know.... and I know I am not alone in my appreciation of Mr Armitage even if he be blighted by a beard.....

[LadyBrooke]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

*wub* lovely Hugo in a new frock... splendid, thank you. There are other Hugo fans you know.... and I know I am not alone in my appreciation of Mr Armitage even if he be blighted by a beard.....

Yes, but you're the only one I can think of for sure off the top of my head...and I wouldn't want to confuse anybody with another person.

Which one is Armitage? I seldom pay attention to who the actor actually is....

I'm still hoping Cirdan is going to be cast, if the do the White Council...he's named as a member in the books.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by LadyBrooke

Yes, but you're the only one I can think of for sure off the top of my head...and I wouldn't want to confuse anybody with another person.

Which one is Armitage? I seldom pay attention to who the actor actually is....

I'm still hoping Cirdan is going to be cast, if the do the White Council...he's named as a member in the books.

Encaitaire is another but she is seldom here alas. And I rather suspect I was a Hugo fan before she was born

Richard Armitage is Thorin and Lalaith and Lalwende are also fans....

[Folwren]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Richard Armitage is Thorin and Lalaith and Lalwende are also fans....

You might call me a fan...I liked him in North & South.

[oddkins]

Originally Posted by LadyBrooke

No...Thorin, Dwalin, and Balin are all missing.

For our resident Elrond fan, Screen Shot from the production video thing that shows him and Bilbo on set.....there you go, Mith.

Balin and Dwalin...
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/07/15/...#ixzz1SAJeGrDI

[Galadriel]

Odd I didn't mention this before, but wouldn't it be funny if PJ actually gave the Dwarves blue and yellow beards - the way Tolkien described them?

[oddkins]

TORn gets world exclusive reveal on first picture of Thorin Oakenshield (and Goblin- cleaver Orcrist!)
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011...d-and-orcrist/

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by oddkins

TORn gets world exclusive reveal on first picture of Thorin Oakshield (and Goblin- cleaver Orcrist!)
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011...d-and-orcrist/

Looks like Robert Downey Jr's Battlefield Earth audition.

Ugh.

Thorin looks like everything that's wrong with PJ's interpretation of Tolkien's work.

I'm afraid we won't get a cinematic adaption of The Hobbit, which is basically a book for children, but nonetheless has some more subtle, tender ideas and messages which can be moving for adults as well. (Just read the deathbed scene at the end of the novel).

Instead, judging by our previous experiences with Jackson, we will get a nauseating blend of angsty fanfiction, various scenes from other works of Tolkien which just don't belong in The Hobbit (and just don't provide enough material for a fleshed-out narrative - any scenes about the White Council will need completely new dialogues, and we all know how good the PJ team is in that department ), as well as an inappropriate emphasis on the martial aspects of the plot. (PJ's dwarves just don't look like they're about to go on a journey where weapons are only of secondary importance.)

Basically, we'll get a gritty reboot, and the ridiculous images of Thorin, Dwalin and especially Kili prove this in my opinion.

By the way, is there a piece of a hammer sticking in Bifur's head?

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...nthebrain.jpg/

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Kili is way too good-looking and beardless for a dwarf!

I would say I completely agree with this...but Folwren has a point. I mean, I'm gorgeous and I'm as dwarfy as they come.

He does not have enough beard though and he looks waaaaaay too much like a hipster.

I know dwarves are supposed to have bigger ears...but is it just me or did they perhaps exaggerate that just a touch? On Nori and Kili in particular it looks jarring in my eyes, like the ears are not really attached to the actors and are just sloppily photoshopped on...

Edit...

And what is with all the stupid looking swords..?

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

And what is with all the stupid looking swords..?

Indeed. They seem to favour axes in the books.
Actually, I always wondered how Thorin could effectively have wielded a sword made for the tall Noldor, but that's another matter.

[LadyBrooke]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

Indeed. They seem to favour axes in the books.
Actually, I always wondered how Thorin could effectively have wielded a sword made for the tall Noldor, but that's another matter.

Yes...that's a very good question. Of course, Orcrist, Glamdring, and Sting never made that much sense to me anyways. A glowing blue sword is a good way to tell you that orcs are near - it's also a good way to tell the orcs where you are. Assuming that Orcrist was a two handed sword like Glamdring, it's very odd for Thorin to be able to wield it well, since in my (admittedly limited) experience with swords, two handed swords tend to be longer....of course, who knows what went on in the makers mind. Or maybe the original owner of it was very very short for an elf.

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I always wondered how Thorin could effectively have wielded a sword made for the tall Noldor, but that's another matter.

He probably wielded it two-handed, similar to a Zweihänder.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

He probably wielded it two-handed, similar to a Zweihänder.

You'd think the mere length of the sword would have made it cumbersome for a dwarf, though. That would explain why they mostly seem to have used axes and mattocks.