[jerhanner]

And with CGI, Beorn's house will be most excellent - especially the big honey bees!

[Tiberius1964]

Originally Posted by Berengarius7

I just want them to do it right this time. LOTR is a big book and in order to make the films, many important moments in Tolkien's books had to be altered, changed, or just plain left out. With "The Hobbit", the filmmakers don't have that excuse. They have two films and should be able to include every situation, without changing anything, or leaving anything out. I want to see everything from Hobbiton to the Green Dragon Inn, to the Trolls, Rivendell, The Mountain Pass with the Stone Giants playing ball with boulders, the Goblin Cave, the underground Lake and the riddle game there, The Pine tree battle, the Eagles, Beorn, Mirkwood and the spiders and elves, Lake Town, Lonely Mountain and back to Hobbiton, and everything inbetween that i neglected to mention.

Well, for what it's worth, I've seen many movies that were derived from books, and I've come to the conclusion that, if you slavishly adapt a book into a movie, you get about 50-60 pages per hour of film. For LoTR, that works out to about 30+ hours of film...

I guess some major surgery was required - but I would have preferred six LoTR films, one for each "book". The first film would have ended with the encounter between Frodo and the Ringwraiths and the Fords of the Mitheithel...

For the Hobbit, it's a much shorter book. They can certainly hew more more closely to the story line.

[Zardoz]

Originally Posted by Tiberius1964

Well, for what it's worth, I've seen many movies that were derived from books, and I've come to the conclusion that, if you slavishly adapt a book into a movie, you get about 50-60 pages per hour of film. For LoTR, that works out to about 30+ hours of film...

I guess some major surgery was required - but I would have preferred six LoTR films, one for each "book". The first film would have ended with the encounter between Frodo and the Ringwraiths and the Fords of the Mitheithel...

For the Hobbit, it's a much shorter book. They can certainly hew more more closely to the story line.

I'm with you on this!

[jerhanner]

From what I've heard, they're going to do a lot of "set up" for LotR - which means we might get some White Council stuff, or some Dwarven/Goblin Wars stuff even.

[Tiberius1964]

Originally Posted by jerhanner

From what I've heard, they're going to do a lot of "set up" for LotR - which means we might get some White Council stuff, or some Dwarven/Goblin Wars stuff even.

Hmm...some of that would be cool. Some of the stuff from Unfinished Tales about the debates of the White Council would make for some interesting viewing.

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And I think it'd be cool to follow Gandalf into Dol Goldur and discover that the Necromancer is indeed Sauron...and that he's set up shop at Dol Goldur to search the Anduin near where Isildur fell.
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And, the battle before the gates of Moria would be fun to watch. Seeing Thorin get his nickname of Oakenshield, and watching Dain kill Azog the goblin, then look in through the gate of Moria and see Durin's Bane still waiting...

Nice eye candy, if nothing else...