New trailer for 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'

[Zigûr]

Hello everyone,
I just thought I'd post the link to at least IGN's upload of the new trailer (released a few hours ago) for the upcoming film; it's the best one I can find.
http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/09/19...rney-trailer-2
This trailer is reinforcing my attitude towards these films as more of a vague sort of tribute to The Hobbit rather than a particularly serious attempt at adaptation. The Dwarves don't seem too bad to me and personally I think Martin Freeman looks like he will be enjoyable as Bilbo. Elrond, however, seems to be being portrayed as a grump once again and the "White Council vs the Necromancer" plot is if anything making me more uneasy as time goes on.
The CGI looks significantly more... artificial than I expected, as well, although perhaps that's just a quality of the trailer. Gandalf sounds a bit different too.
This trailer still suggests that the focus will remain on Bilbo and the Dwarves which I very much hope is the case because I am rather worried that it will become distracted in an effort to make the story more "epic", ie more like The Lord of the Rings and therefore more marketable.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Zigûr

This trailer still suggests that the focus will remain on Bilbo and the Dwarves which I very much hope is the case because I am rather worried that it will become distracted in an effort to make the story more "epic", ie more like The Lord of the Rings and therefore more marketable.

Looks as if tying the movies to the LOTR films is indeed more important to them than telling the story of The Hobbit. The "comic" uses of the dwarves give more than a little unwelcome sense of deja vu.
Also, I don't remember 1990's action-hero head-butts being used in the books.

[Morthoron]

A Reverie on a Trailer (Requiem for The Hobbit)

These Naugrim look undwarvish,
And those Wargs from Harry Potter!
Radagast and his rabbits
Don't seem quite like they oughter.

Gandalf convinces Galadriel
That the story needs a Baggins,
But there's a whiff of faint unease,
A little something nagging --

That causes me to question
All this murk so dark and dim
That saturates each sequence
With foul fan-fiction whim!

Has Jackson filmed 'The Hobbit'
Or is this some mad contrivance?
A blue-screen concocted prequel
With the studio's connivance?

There's an annotated copy
Leaning lornly on my shelf,
And we wonder -- yes we wonders,
Precious, is this film now something else?

With comedy butted dwarvish broad,
But plot stretched a bit too thin --
Scraped like butter o'er too much bread --
Three films ringed end to end.

P'raps a once simple story
Of an adventurous hobbit's lot,
Has gotten flummoxed and bebothered
In a confusticated plot!

[Lalwendë]

It looks like great fun, I'm even more excited. And The Hobbit is supposed to be fun, after all. I am expecting silly Dwarves at Bag End and some more bonkers bits - this, after all, is the book where the Elves sing Tra-la-la-lally.

It also gained four year old approval.

I'm a little bit freaked out to see a teeny tiny Richard Armitage though. And Elrond was pants in the LotR films, so he would have to remain in character for this, sadly. The film Elrond is utterly at odds with my own Elrond, who is a kindly sort of chap. Hugo Weaving was the wrong choice then and he still is now. Still, the Dwarves each appear to have a fully formed personality which is fab.

I noticed the Stone Giant and I think a certain director has been watching Trollhunter.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

And The Hobbit is supposed to be fun, after all. I am expecting silly Dwarves at Bag End and some more bonkers bits - this, after all, is the book where the Elves sing Tra-la-la-lally.

True, but the problem is that PJ's idea of "humor" seems incompatible with the subject book. He ought to be aiming for this, but I'm getting more a feeling of this.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Rabbit sled???