Will The Hobbit do damage to the books? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Elmo · 11-23-2012, 03:14 PM

At least wait for the film to come out before making such extreme judgements on it please. I have high hopes for this film and expect it to the meet such hopes.

TheMisfortuneTeller · 11-23-2012, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Elmo

At least wait for the film to come out before making such extreme judgements on it please. I have high hopes for this film and expect it to the meet such hopes.

It will require two-and-a-half years to watch this two-and-a-half-hour movie, so one will have to sit through the First Third of the Hobbit, to see how much narrative bloat, gratuitous CGI, fan-fiction cameo appearances (not to mention crass commercial product placement) to expunge from the mind so as to glean what part of the Hobbit one has actually seen. Then one will have to repeat this filtration process over the next year-and-a-half with The Second Third of the Hobbit and The Third Third of the Hobbit.

Or, one could wait until 2015 for the extra-special director's-cut DVD featuring a properly edited, two-and-a-half-hour version of The Hobbit.

Mithalwen · 11-23-2012, 04:30 PM

You have high hopes others have deep fears. They are entitled to express them eapecially as a part of a well structured post.

I don't plan on seeing the films in cinema but I am not worried about the books. Lord of the RIngs was voted book of the century bafore the films came out and The Hobbit is one of the dozen books bookshops always have in stock and IIRC has never gone out of print.

alatar · 11-23-2012, 04:46 PM

The Hobbit is much more childish than LotR or the Sil, and so why not have a lot more fun with the film?

I can't repeatedly reread it like I can the other books - The Hobbit's that different, and it's possible that as I've aged I've left it behind.

So I will see the films - you never know.

Inziladun · 11-23-2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by alatar

The Hobbit is much more childish than LotR or the Sil, and so why not have a lot more fun with the film?

It's true that The Hobbit is on a different level than LOTR, but that shouldn't give PJ license to overtly dumb down the story; make it indistinguishable from the Eragons and other "modern" stories.
There's a distinction between chilish and childlike, and I don't think the film makers get that.

11-23-2012, 03:14 PM	#1
Elmo Pittodrie Poltergeist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: trying to find that warm and winding lane again Posts: 633	At least wait for the film to come out before making such extreme judgements on it please. I have high hopes for this film and expect it to the meet such hopes. __________________ As Beren looked into her eyes within the shadows of her hair, The trembling starlight of the skies he saw there mirrored shimmering.

11-23-2012, 04:30 PM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	You have high hopes others have deep fears. They are entitled to express them eapecially as a part of a well structured post. I don't plan on seeing the films in cinema but I am not worried about the books. Lord of the RIngs was voted book of the century bafore the films came out and The Hobbit is one of the dozen books bookshops always have in stock and IIRC has never gone out of print. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

11-23-2012, 04:46 PM	#4
alatar Doubting Dwimmerlaik Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Heaven's basement Posts: 2,466	The Hobbit is much more childish than LotR or the Sil, and so why not have a lot more fun with the film? I can't repeatedly reread it like I can the other books - The Hobbit's that different, and it's possible that as I've aged I've left it behind. So I will see the films - you never know. __________________ There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it.