The Hall of Fire

That's it! I wondered why it looked so familiar. Oh, PJ. :nono: That's exactly it Elen... I seen some pics a few minutes ago where someone painted him green and he is EXACTLY the spitting image of the Grinch. Way to go Mr Jackson :rage: After a generally good design record for LOTR, I have to admit...

Best comment description I've seen is that he looks like the Grinch! :rofl: That's it! I wondered why it looked so familiar. Oh, PJ. :nono: That's exactly it Elen... I seen some pics a few minutes ago where someone painted him green and he is EXACTLY the spitting image of the Grinch. Way to go Mr J...

I thought you would have been pleased that he looks nothing like Jon Bon Jovi. ;) No, he looks much much worse... ;) All I can say is Persbrandt's performance better be Oscar worthy to salvage this character. Because looking at that character actually makes me want the R&B version where they sk...

Wow Beorn really does look horrible... Sometimes less is more Pete, Sorry

Guess they would rather have a character that looks bad than something reminiscent of the source material. who would have thought?

well why should they get anything from the appendices right? They totally butchered the way the dwarf/orc war went. :rage: What actually was in the appendices was great film worthy material. What we got was just generic blah. :scratch: Reducing the character Dain into nothing more than a unhelpful, ...

Don't get me wrong PtB I love the beginning of the film I think Baggend is the best part of the film. It stuck closer to the book but yet added little bits which worked. I love the songs in Baggend they were great, the misty mountains cold gave me goosebumps the first time I heard it... I do agree o...

Dave_LF wrote:This is pretty funny (and partially on topic):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LDhsH79jAY

Bleeped language warning.

OMG love it and he is spot on about ALL OF IT.

Love the Benny Hill music during Radagast's chase scene so appropriate

Does it really surprise anyone anymore that Thranduil is taking a back seat to Legolas and Tauriel? I can say it doesn't shock me at all. Why shouldn't a character not from the book and one that is completely made up get more face time than one from the book... Honestly I'm more upset about Dain bei...

Ah, you're right. I still wonder why the plot synopsis called him a hunter and a bargeman and didn't mention anything about being in the guard, but that's a separate issue (if it's an issue at all). Maybe the Laketown guard is more of a citizen militia than a full time employer. well I don't think ...

They really should have been, even if Jackson had insisted on keeping the full length action scenes (though I suspect that I won't get much disagreement from too many people here that he could have easily cut enough from the Stone Giants and Goblintown chase scenes to have included all of the new m...

Like I said I hope your right. But for some reason I see it in my mind playing out with them making a big deal about Bard getting to the ballista to be able to fire the arrow. I'm really hoping I am completely wrong, but with all the changes already made to Bard this is something I could see happeni...

Sure or wishful thinking V?

They do show (what has been said to be)Girion firing a ballista right around 1:39 in the new trailer

Hopefully your right

as far as Amazon in the US there is no LOTR on vinyl... I just looked

Here's something I'm not really liking and I realize it might not be an issue for some people. But as a fan of the book this has me worried that Jackson is cutting out much of the tale if he does go this route. “We are putting things in the extended cut that are going to play straight into the secon...

And that is the danger of bringing in the whole Necromancer sideshow to the forefront. It could really make Gandalf look like the Grey Fool indeed for not understanding that Bilbo's ring is the One until after the Long Expected Party. Honestly I have always felt like the Necromancer plot should hav...

Hopefully. I'll never be a fan of the idea of making the Hobbit more about Sauron and him attacking middle earth at this time ... I'm still hoping the sight of all the Orcs at DolGuldur in the trailer is some sort of flash back and not the prelude to the BO5A

hopefully the film uses more of the soundtrack this time around instead of just rehashing existing themes. The AUJ soundtrack was brilliant and I really felt let down by the lack of it in the film. DOS so far the score we have heard is great I jut hope we don't end up with misty mountains cold over ...

What is that person in armor at the bottom? Is that supposed to be a representation of Sauron or what? I doesn't appear to me to be a statue. Hopefully this isn't what we get for Sauron. I guess I would have preferred something more ethereal and ghostlike maybe hooded and grim reaper like than some ...

That's my issue V HOW the situation is played. I do completely agree with Elentári that we get the history of the ring at the beginning of FOTR so IMO there really is no need to hype the ring until then. Almost anyone who would see the films in chronological order would understand Bilbo's ring he fi...

I don't see anything wrong with Bilbo being drawn to the mural. Magic rings were already a part of tales and legends, and there was no reason for him to assume that the ring he later found had anything to do with Sauron's. i don't know why he wouldn't know its the same ring either, they look exactl...