Tricksy Peter Jackson. Give us the precious trailer!

It's a teaser. We won't see anything interesting.

MithrandirBooga: It's a teaser. We won't see anything interesting.

you know how I know you're not a fan?

God. I'm sick of hearing about The Hobbit. What a dumb concept for a movie. Who even likes hobbits anyways? I'm so sick of them, with their big floppy ears, long, grey noses, and gigantic ivory tusks poking out of their mouths. Do we really need another movie about hobbits? Wasn't Dumbo and Operation Dumbo Drop enough?

MithrandirBooga: It's a teaser. We won't see anything interesting.

Just watched the Fellowship of the Ring teaser for comparison's sake. I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you.

Stile4aly: MithrandirBooga: It's a teaser. We won't see anything interesting.

Just watched the Fellowship of the Ring teaser for comparison's sake. I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you.

I expect a short snippet of Bilbo meeting Gandalf for the first time, followed by many brief shots of returning cast members to tie it to the earlier movies as much as possible. They'll cap it off with a tiny hint of Smaug. Since Gollum is out of the bag, the dragon is going to be the "top secret" creature for these movies.

i predict there will be much walking

Jonathan Hohensee: God. I'm sick of hearing about The Hobbit. What a dumb concept for a movie. Who even likes hobbits anyways? I'm so sick of them, with their big floppy ears, long, grey noses, and gigantic ivory tusks poking out of their mouths. Do we really need another movie about hobbits? Wasn't Dumbo and Operation Dumbo Drop enough?

eviljimbo: i predict there will be much walking

you don't just simply walk in a teaser

I just really want to see amazing work done for the goblin caverns, Laketown and the Lonely Mountain.

is lindsay lohan gonna play smaug?

howdyyall9999: eviljimbo: i predict there will be much walking

you don't just simply walk in a teaser

And I predict much whining from a hypocritical douche-bag who gives it, but can't take it, the next time someone criticizes Kevin Smith.

So this is a teaser about a teaser?

I watched Fellowship the other night and I'm so sad Ian Holm is too old for Bilbo. He was great.

Time Traveling Bunnies: The full Hunger Games trailer was released today too.

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Time Traveling Bunnies: Cagey B: Time Traveling Bunnies: The full Hunger Games trailer was released today too.

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Oh I'm sorry. Did my innocuous post about another popular fantasy series disrupt your discussion about a teaser trailer that hasn't even arrived?

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Teaser for a teaser?

We've hit a new low.

Wait this takes place before Lord of the Rings?

Reboots suck. Hollywood will keep making them if you keep going to see them.

carl: Wait this takes place before Lord of the Rings?

Reboots suck. Hollywood will keep making them if you keep going to see them.

Funny.

carl: Wait this takes place before Lord of the Rings?

Reboots suck. Hollywood will keep making them if you keep going to see them.

4NSpy: Teaser for a teaser?

We've hit a new low.

I remember ten years ago there being a lot of advanced buzz that there was going to be an LOTR teaser before Thirteen Days. And before that, Meet Joe Black had a solid opening weekend because half the people who bought tickets knew there was going to be a teaser for Episode One.

This is nothing new.

Already?! When can we expect the first movie? First half of 2012?

eviljimbo: is lindsay lohan gonna play smaug?

I heard she queefs fire

ivan: eviljimbo: i predict there will be much walking

Just so long as they don't sing.

Seriously? In the hobbit, the songs set the whole tone. I hope Jackson licenses the misty mountains song from the 70s cartoon. It was perfect

ConConHead: I watched Fellowship the other night and I'm so sad Ian Holm is too old for Bilbo. He was great.

You can always listen to the 1981 BBC radio version of LOTR.

AngryDragon: ivan: eviljimbo: i predict there will be much walking

Just so long as they don't sing.

Seriously? In the hobbit, the songs set the whole tone. I hope Jackson licenses the misty mountains song from the 70s cartoon. It was perfect

Although who can now listen to The Greatest Adventure and not think of Lemmiwinks.

/Go Lemmiwinks! Get Wikileaks!
//Run, run! The battle's on! Run, run! The battle's on!

ConConHead: I watched Fellowship the other night and I'm so sad Ian Holm is too old for Bilbo. He was great.

Yep, would have been awesome. He is a very good actor and would have brought a strong performance to the role.

eviljimbo: i predict there will be much walking

I don't like movies without fast cars and missiles!

/fed the troll, he looked hungry.

eviljimbo: i predict there will be much walking

But THIS walking is filmed at 48fps in 3D by dual sets of RED digital cameras.

/Peter Jackson is getting fat again, so you know it's going to be good.

So this announcement is a teaser for a teaser?

ivan: AngryDragon: ivan: eviljimbo: i predict there will be much walking

Just so long as they don't sing.

Seriously? In the hobbit, the songs set the whole tone. I hope Jackson licenses the misty mountains song from the 70s cartoon. It was perfect

Too much walking and singing could ruin any movie. That's why I applauded Jackson's decision to excise Tom Bombadil. Besides, decades ago, I wrote my own tunes for every song in The Hobbit and the trilogy. I had about 3 or 4 favorite chord progressions at the time, most of them involving D-minor in some way


Well, it is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings: I'm mostly curious how they're going to handle the wolves, eagles and spiders, considering that in the book they speak/convey plot points, and that never came up in LOTR.

And pulling off Beorn's animal servants without making them look too silly.

I'm predicting this movies get flamed because of those points. Jackson has two options here:

He can break out of 'high fantasy' and do this more as a young adult/childrens book as intended. So less serious and dark in overall tone compared to the LoTR trilogy. The hardcore LoTR set will scream murder if this happens and biatch about it as much as they biatched about the cartoon.

He can do heavy rewrites for things like talking animals. Then he gets flamed to taking liberties with the source material.

So no matter how this goes down, some fringe fan site is gonna biatch up a storm.

Personally I think if you want to go high fantasy though its easy to write out the talking animals. The goblins can handle the warg's lines. Beorn and Gandalf cover the lines in that area. Smaug of course talks, but everyone knows dragons talks. The big issue is dealing with the spiders in Chapter 8. I think the spiders talk, but I could be wrong.

Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings:

I just wanted to say you have one of the coolest Fark handles I've ever seen.

I saw a 'making of' clip on Facebook the other week.. I like the dwarf costumes.

Wanna see Bendydick Cumabatch as Sauron.

Jonathan Hohensee: God. I'm sick of hearing about The Hobbit. What a dumb concept for a movie. Who even likes hobbits anyways? I'm so sick of them, with their big floppy ears, long, grey noses, and gigantic ivory tusks poking out of their mouths. Do we really need another movie about hobbits? Wasn't Dumbo and Operation Dumbo Drop enough?

Oh sweet jesus. I just had the greatest idea - what if Bilbo really was an elephant instead of a hobbit? Run through the book in your head, but imagine an elephant carrying 12 dwarves on his back through the Mirkwood. An invisible elephant sneaking down to softly trumpet at Smaug. Wrapping the Elf-King's wine barrels around his trunk. Trying to look small and insignificant when meeting Beorn.

That would be the best thing ever.

bill4935: Jonathan Hohensee: God. I'm sick of hearing about The Hobbit. What a dumb concept for a movie. Who even likes hobbits anyways? I'm so sick of them, with their big floppy ears, long, grey noses, and gigantic ivory tusks poking out of their mouths. Do we really need another movie about hobbits? Wasn't Dumbo and Operation Dumbo Drop enough?

Oh sweet jesus. I just had the greatest idea - what if Bilbo really was an elephant instead of a hobbit? Run through the book in your head, but imagine an elephant carrying 12 dwarves on his back through the Mirkwood. An invisible elephant sneaking down to softly trumpet at Smaug. Wrapping the Elf-King's wine barrels around his trunk. Trying to look small and insignificant when meeting Beorn.

That would be the best thing ever.

better yet, a sparkly vampire elephant! with a wiseass donkey sidekick!

I am upset ... i am going to have to buy a ticket to MI Ghost Protocal to see a 6 min clip to The Dark Knight Returns!
Unpossible!