News from the set

Mmmm...

All I can say is that Cumberbatch will be perfect for Smaug, and I REALLY hope they use his facial expressions! The guy looks reptilian already and his voice is just so.... deep. Fantastic actor as well. He and Martin Freeman have great chemistry already, I can't wait for their scene together, which I'm assuming will be in the second film...

no, the conversation between Bilbo and Smaug will be in the first movie. the second one will be filled with LOTR cameos and the white council and LOADS of Galadriel and Thranduil and Master of Laketown and so on..

I think we had a thread on the old forum on where the first film will end, i thought it might be when Gandalf leaves the Dwarves for the white council.
Not an exciting end to a film though, so the capture of the Dwarves by the elves might be the go.
The conversation with smaug is closer to the end of the book and by the sounds of it they dont no what Smaug is going to look like yet.
You could be right though Norc, wouldnt be the first time i've been wrong

I always thought that they'd end the first film after Bilbo's barrel escape. I have no idea though...just seemed a logical and exciting place to end!

omg, I was just being sarcastic, why would they end the first movie there xD
I must agree with Ally here, I believe the movie will end calmy when Bilbo and co escapes in the barrels Somewhere (I think the old forum) I have gone into detail in how I think and see the end of the first movie. I do not believe they will end the movie when they have arrived and the white council fight will be in the first one.

It was a good suggestion nonetheless. A movie for The Hobbit fans, and a movie for PJ fans.

In the Chinese new year thingy 2012 is the year of the Dragon by all accounts, rather apt what??

Only if Smaug is a Chinese drasgon, I s'pose. Is the Withered Heath anywhere near China? I can't find China on any of Tolkien's maps.

Orwell wrote:Only if Smaug is a Chinese drasgon, I s'pose. Is the Withered Heath anywhere near China? I can't find China on any of Tolkien's maps.

Hmm...

'Tell me what you want me to do, and I will try it, if I have to walk from here to the last desert in the East and fight the Wild Wireworms of the Chinese. I had a great-great-great-uncle, Bullroarer Took, and...'

'We know, we know' said Gloin (he was very fond of golf)...'

The Bladorthin Typescript, The History of The hobbit

I must have missed that when I read The History of the Hobbit. Could it have registered with my subconscious, do you think? Must get around to reading it again! Wonderful read, what, Elthir.

You know I am beginning to supsect the authenticty of Lore from our new Lore Master!

Page 40. Part One, Mr Baggins. The History of the Hobbit. Elthir was totally CORRECT!

Well I guess thats why he has the keys to the Tower of Lore and I live in a barrel.

I thought you lived in a barrel for other reasons?

Mainly its the smell of buckie. You just cant get that authentic soaked in aroma in most properties. And of course location, location, location! I can roll to the nearest pub or roll quickly away in times of emergency- such as when its my round.

You were never nothing if not thrifty.

Good ol Pete, I am hoping for another blog to make it in time for my birthday.

A birthday Mrs Figg? I do hope your birthday is in the records so to speak so we are notified beforehand - the Forumshire press like to make a deal of birthdays.

No its not as the computer log thingy on my profile wouldnt accept 29th January 1890 for some weird reason.

Well I'm sure Pure Publications will not fail to mark the occasion for you Mrs Figg.

Umm... I hope it's a proper Birthday article, and not an opportunity for the printing of salacious gossip and embarassing photos! Pure Publications are not what I'd call Respectable...

Anything but!