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

[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".