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Baitball Blogger

(46,756 posts) Mon Jul 30, 2012, 06:10 PM Jul 2012

It’s Official: The Hobbit to Be 3 Movies

Director Peter Jackson confirmed the news on Monday after hinting at plans to spread the story over a trilogy rather than just the two scheduled releases.

Jackson previously did three Lord of the Rings movies in the Middle Earth world.

The first movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, opens in December.

A second installment called The Hobbit: There and Back Again is set to hit theaters for December 2013.

http://www.gossipcop.com/hobbit-3-movies-confirmed-trilogy-release-dates/

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It’s Official: The Hobbit to Be 3 Movies (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 OP

That will be great! CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2012 #1

The settings are such eye candy that I imagine they are going to spend a lot of time Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 #4

Two weird facts about my Tolkien-reading: MiddleFingerMom Jul 2012 #2

That explains so much. Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 #5

I tried to read The Hobbit in the 60s but couldn't into it! ohiosmith Jul 2012 #7

Many people had the same experience Ron Obvious Jul 2012 #12

I've read both, and the Silmarillion many times. Geeks will do these things. HopeHoops Jul 2012 #8

I've never been able to get into anything else by Tolkien, though I tried 2 different books. MiddleFingerMom Jul 2012 #11

I even created a land with the language translation from the back of the LOTR. I can read runes, too HopeHoops Jul 2012 #13

Ugh... Ron Obvious Jul 2012 #3

Everything is a trilogy these days. Baitball Blogger Jul 2012 #6

I've already got the movie, "The Hobbit." Archae Jul 2012 #9

It has a cute soundtrack too... Ron Obvious Jul 2012 #10

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,683 posts)

1. That will be great!

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 06:46 PM

Jul 2012

They can tell the story more completely, with more detail...

I'm looking forward to all of them.

Baitball Blogger

(46,756 posts)

4. The settings are such eye candy that I imagine they are going to spend a lot of time

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:12 PM

Jul 2012

with canvasing shots.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

2. Two weird facts about my Tolkien-reading:

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 06:52 PM

Jul 2012

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1. I read all three books of The Lord of the Rings BEFORE I read The Hobbit.
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2. I've read LOTR 3 or 4 times -- but never in sequential order (I'll pick up one of the books and
read "just a little bit" and be hooked on reading the whole thing without regard to which book it is).
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Baitball Blogger

(46,756 posts)

5. That explains so much.

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:15 PM

Jul 2012

ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)

7. I tried to read The Hobbit in the 60s but couldn't into it!

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:18 PM

Jul 2012

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

12. Many people had the same experience

Reply to ohiosmith (Reply #7)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 08:12 PM

Jul 2012

Many people had the same experience. It IS a children's book after all, and can be off-putting.

If you haven't read LOTR yet, I'll you what I tell everyone else who gave up on The Hobbit: Start with the Fellowship and at least stick it out until Gandalf returns and starts talking about The Shadow in the East. That's where the book fundamentally changes tone away from the merry hobbits to show a glimpse of the larger canvas, and you're either going to be hooked or not.

I must have read LOTR 20 times in my late teens and twenties. I loved the scope and pace, and didn't care for the movies that much, but I haven't read the books since seeing them.

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

8. I've read both, and the Silmarillion many times. Geeks will do these things.

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:52 PM

Jul 2012

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

11. I've never been able to get into anything else by Tolkien, though I tried 2 different books.

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #8)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 08:06 PM

Jul 2012

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

13. I even created a land with the language translation from the back of the LOTR. I can read runes, too

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Reply #11)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 08:20 PM

Jul 2012

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

3. Ugh...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:10 PM

Jul 2012

The Hobbit is a small story, perfect for a single movie. Dragging it out like this is a cynical attempt to squeeze more money out of the franchise and sure to cause it to be padded out with all sorts of non-canonical material.

Now, mind you, if I'd been directing LOTR, 3 extended edition movies wouldn't have seen the hobbits in Bree yet.

Baitball Blogger

(46,756 posts)

6. Everything is a trilogy these days.

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:16 PM

Jul 2012

And, yes, it's all about the mullah.

Archae

(46,344 posts)

9. I've already got the movie, "The Hobbit."

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 07:56 PM

Jul 2012

Ok, ok, it's the Rankin-Bass animated one...

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

10. It has a cute soundtrack too...

Reply to Archae (Reply #9)

Mon Jul 30, 2012, 08:05 PM

Jul 2012

Didn't care for the visuals much, but I enjoyed the songs by Glen Yarbrough, the singing goat:

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is there if you're bold.
Let go of the moment that life makes you hold.
To measure the meaning can make you delay;
It's time you stop thinkin' and wasting the day.

The man who's a dreamer and never takes leave
Who thinks of a world that is just make-believe
Will never know passion, will never know pain.
Who sits by the window will one day see rain.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead."

Thanks be to Napster that I was able to track those songs down back in the day. They have the crackles and pops from the source LP, but I sure couldn't find them anywhere else.

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