"The Hobbit: There And Back Again" To be Renamed "The Battle of the Five Armies"

[tom the eldest]

The nazgûl would most likely shows up and duel the eagle.they could count as an army too

[Zigûr]

Apparently it's a big deal that we haven't seen a trailer for this yet.
People's ability to work themselves up in anticipation for trash fed to them by giant faceless corporations who just want their money continues to astonish me - like the slave venerating the master who abducted him and forced him to work because he knows the master might feed him an extra scrap of mouldy bread in the future.
Here's the new poster for which I think TORN has thrown a parade or something:
http://collider.com/wp-content/uploa...ies-poster.jpg
Sums up virtually everything wrong with the films:
1) No Bilbo even though the massive words 'The Hobbit' are right there.
2) Focus on "cool" action moments.
3) The reliance on Hollywood cliché (here the framing of a character with his back to the audience).
4) No Bilbo! Did I mention this already?
Ugh.

[Mithalwen]

Smaug doesn't look like a dragon
More like a screaming mutant monkey,

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Zigûr

Apparently it's a big deal that we haven't seen a trailer for this yet.

I have to admit, I have been a little surprised myself that there hasn't been a trailer yet. We got one in June of last year.

In a morbid sort of way I am looking forward to making fun of it. Yes, I'm prejudiced but at least I'm willing to admit it.

And I seriously doubt my expectations will be proven wrong.

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Smaug doesn't look like a dragon
More like a screaming mutant monkey,

Let the mocking begin!

[Mithalwen]

Not mocking it is what I think - though I don't see why they had to go so far away from Tolkien's picture which is Smaug to me and no doubt to many. Though perhaps they have gone so far off piste now the less it takes, and so defiles, of Tolkien the better.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

C:\>

^Not an emoticon.

^Actually a sad dwarf wearing a helmet.

Originally Posted by tom the eldest

Massive fan of tolkien works?he even almost never read lord of the rings.he simply read it in a flash then put it down,never to read it again.

People who write smutty fanfiction about Maedhros and Fingon are also massive fans of Tolkien's works. Still I feel they don't have much to contribute to the Tolkien community at large.

Originally Posted by Bêthberry

At least I suppose this means we won't get seven or eight or nine armies, the additions being made up characters of the Jackson gang.

Thanks for helping us look on the bright side, Bêth-b!

[Tuor in Gondolin]

Originally posted by tom the eldest
I wonder what the reaction of tolkien community when the movie is released......

I gave up on PJ movies after the first Hobbit movie atrocity (although the Long
expected Party beginning was acceptable).

PJ has shown a long decline from the pretty good FoTR, thru worsening TTT and
RoTK. But afteer the first Hobbit absurdities (including making Goblin Town a laughably improbable scene---in the book the size of goblins, escape from them, etc, are believable in Tolkien's subcreation. PJ just has become more and more cartoonish. Exactly what Tolkien feared of "Hollywoodism".