Peter Jackson's The Hobbit - Page 12

The Necromancer gets a speaking role? Wasn't he just referred to by Gandalf and people in the book, and never actually featured in the story? And wasn't the Necromancer actually Sauron?

On December 15 2004 17:12 racebannon wrote:

I'd support it but i sincerely doubt an Ice and Fire movie or series of movies would come close to capturing the perfection that the books possess

the fantasy genre is pretty laden with crap unfortunately. You won't find anything near as good as Song of Ice and Fire, and the distant seconds are talentless hacks who make it readily apparent as their respective series progress (terry pratchett, that fuckbrain who writes about rand althor or whoever)

your best bet is to just re-read Ice and Fire and pray George Martin actually gets the rest of the books out

On June 26 2011 08:21 Thorakh wrote:
Damn I can't wait so long for the movies to come out

If they stay true to the story this time and don't fuck things up with bad actors (*cough* Merrin and Pippin and Aragorn *cough*) this could turn out to be fantastic.

Yeah, the Necromancer was Sauron.

On June 26 2011 08:36 ZiegFeld wrote:
...Bad actors? How so, I thought they were great.

On June 26 2011 08:39 Vore210 wrote:
Brian Blessed and Stephen Fry? So much win :O

On June 20 2011 13:16 Probe1 wrote:


I love you.

I can't stand thinking about them bringing more attention to LotR. It's my childhood. I reread all four books every summer. It's something special to me and seeing half of it cut out in favor of a simplified hollywood story hurts me. The Hobbit will do nothing good for me.

But you just made me glad to have read this thread. That animated hobbit movie was so damn creepy and awesome. Oh, sweet childhood.

On June 26 2011 08:48 GrimReefer wrote:


i'm halfway through the 2towers atm, it's at least the 5th time i'm reading the series.
I can't tell you how many awesome things were left of the movies. like the entire end of return of the king + Show Spoiler +so much was left out...

the hobbit movie will indeed be epic if made correctly, if they decide to leave too much out i'll be mad but not surprised.

On June 26 2011 08:48 GrimReefer wrote:


i'm halfway through the 2towers atm, it's at least the 5th time i'm reading the series.
I can't tell you how many awesome things were left of the movies. like the entire end of return of the king + Show Spoiler +so much was left out...

the hobbit movie will indeed be epic if made correctly, if they decide to leave too much out i'll be mad but not surprised.

On June 26 2011 08:48 GrimReefer wrote:


i'm halfway through the 2towers atm, it's at least the 5th time i'm reading the series.
I can't tell you how many awesome things were left of the movies. like the entire end of return of the king + Show Spoiler +so much was left out...

the hobbit movie will indeed be epic if made correctly, if they decide to leave too much out i'll be mad but not surprised.

On June 26 2011 09:02 Curu wrote:


lol the 3 LotR movies were already massively long as it is. Adding on the Saruman part would have made Return of the King a 4.5 hour movie.

As much as it sucks, that's the thing with movie adaptations. You have to cut out some stuff because of time constraints.

when they're back in shire fighting saruman, and how pippin and merri were the tallest hobbits ever b/c they drank the ent water

On June 26 2011 09:12 pi_rate_pir_ate wrote:
No, please don't do it....I love all of Tolkien's middle earth books. Read the books and leave the Author's world and characters unmolested. Very little makes me more sad than hearing a discussion about Tolkien's ring stories and subsequently realizing they know only Peter Jackson's stories. Peter Jackson's stories would have been forgotten 2 years after their writing if they were even published. Using Tolkien's famous story names and character names with a new story and new character traits has ruined some of the greatest literature of the 20th century for generations to come who will never pick up the true books.

On June 26 2011 09:02 Curu wrote:


lol the 3 LotR movies were already massively long as it is. Adding on the Saruman part would have made Return of the King a 4.5 hour movie.

As much as it sucks, that's the thing with movie adaptations. You have to cut out some stuff because of time constraints.

On June 26 2011 09:12 pi_rate_pir_ate wrote:
No, please don't do it....I love all of Tolkien's middle earth books. Read the books and leave the Author's world and characters unmolested. Very little makes me more sad than hearing a discussion about Tolkien's ring stories and subsequently realizing they know only Peter Jackson's stories. Peter Jackson's stories would have been forgotten 2 years after their writing if they were even published. Using Tolkien's famous story names and character names with a new story and new character traits has ruined some of the greatest literature of the 20th century for generations to come who will never pick up the true books.