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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 2:30 am
It's going to be fucking awesome. Can't wait.
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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 2:32 am
I'm really glad this is going to be made... and made well.... its only right after the great treatment the trilogy received....
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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 4:35 am
I could dream and wish parts of The Silmarillion would be adapted to the screen (the "Valaquenta" and the "Quenta Silmarillion"; certainly the story of Beren and Luthien), but I fear that this will be the crowning jewel (funny, given its minor status in comparison to LOTR). I first read The Hobbit when I was five. No author more than Tolkien is responsible for giving me a window of dreams through which to look, and look I have-longingly, ever so longingly, toward the west.
Alas, despite its allure, all I see there is San Diego. Bring us more Tolkien, please.
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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 6:33 am
I want the 'saga of the exiles' to be made into films.
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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 7:38 am
Oh, dear. I have to hurry and get another tattoo before the movie comes out and The Hobbit tattoos get all popular.
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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 8:27 am
I saw that trailer last night. It looks like they might be doing it justice. And I am very glad that they are making two movies out of it so hopefully they will do the book justice.
By the way, I first read the Hobbit when I was a freshman in highschool - in 1972!!! Man do I feel old.
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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 9:34 am
Orogenicman, that was the year before I read it. Cheers!
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RE: The Hobbit
December 21, 2011 at 9:46 am
I have been waiting for this since i found out Peter Jackson got the rights, donkey's years ago, I'm so fucking excited, and bar sex, nothing excites me that much.
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