Posts tagged the hobbit
Hello, Tailor
omg
i hope someone does a fan cut of the 3 hobbit movies where it’s ONLY scenes with the elves, because there’s no way i’m gonna watch any of the Hobbits all the way thru.
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Angel Coulby as
BilboBramble Baggins—burglar, Ring-bearer, poet, translator, Elf-friend and scholar. After an adventurous youth, she spent her twilight years in Rivendell, working on her memoir, There and Back Again, as well as the compendium of lore, Translations from the Elvish. She was granted the great privilege of traveling to the Grey Havens with the last of the Elven lords, and passed into the West in her 131st year.(because nonsenstalare mentioned it and I am contractually obligated to make a gifset for every genderswap that catches my interest.)
OK, THIS WOULD MAKE ME WATCH THE HOBBIT.
(Source: notbecauseofvictories)
Remember the cartoon Madeline?
WHAT IS HAPPENING.
MY BELOVED
Oh god, I can’t tell you how much I hope Peter Jackson is treating The Hobbit movies as practice for filming the Temeraire series. WANT IT SO BADLY.
Oh my God RIGHT? Although seriously, I cannot figure out who would play Laurence. Like, you need a super dupes Awkward Penguin type, because as noble as he is, Laurence strikes me as a grade-a twit (A LOVELY TWIT BUT STILL).
Maybe Richard Ayoade?
- needs more gold.
- i’m in agony because i don’t rly care about the hobbit but I YEARN FOR THE TEMERAIRE ADAPTATION!!!!! i fucken love temeraire! i love dragons! i watched the whole of the first season of game of thrones just because i saw a gif of a badass gurl with cute bb dragon sidekicks! temeraire has to be incredible or i will personally take a plane to peter jackson’s house and spit in his coffee!!!
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important emails about serious business, the erinna and audrey hour
im gonna
LAUGHING SO HARD I CAN’T BREATHE
GIMLI THE BABE AND A HALF
GUYS, I AM UNIRONICALLY INVESTED IN THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes I just think about the dwarves’ hairstyles and
Goddamn
I know you can keep hair in braids for a long time without redoing it
But they were on the road a long time
And their hairdoes were pretty fucking immaculate for 12 men who I don’t think know what a bath is.
Which means that at some point during this journey they would’ve had to have had a hairstyle party and I can’t stop laughing omg can you imagine them all sitting up in the middle of the night braiding each other’s hair and trying to be very quiet so Bilbo doesn’t up and catch them doing something “unmanly”
It’d be just like a teenage girl sleepover on TV
SEE I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE
IMO, what this actually means is that in dwarvish culture, braiding your hair is considered to be extremely masculine and badass.
lokilaufeysonandceaseatoncestark:
The Hobbit, illustrated by Tove Jansson.
I was going to make a photo set of these, but now I don’t have to! The old Finnish translation of The Hobbit is kind of …hilariously wrong, but I’ve read it a couple of times just for the art. :)
The Finnish Tolkien Society’s logo also contains a picture from this edition:
I LOVE TOVE JANSSON :(((((((
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@typhonatemybaby came home from watching The Hobbit with a haunted look in his eyes. “FUCK ALL THE FUCKING DWARVES,” said he.
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Anonymous asked:
same anon: tbh i doubt the hobbit would have been made if lotr hadn't come out first, simply b/c it wouldn't have been taken seriously for precisely the (rather shallow) line of reasoning you take on your blog. however the benefit of the hobbit coming out now is that it already has a huge fanbase thanks to the lotr movies who *want* to see the origin story, who love the recurring characters and vital role the hobbit plays in the lotr mythos, etc. maybe the hobbit is just for diehard fans, idk.
yeah, i doubt it would’ve been made before lotr either. i expect the hobbit will have a pretty big audience and be monetarily successful, but so far its reviews have been kinda mixed. also it’ll be nice for kids who are maybe 11 or 12 now (which is how old i was when LOTR came out), so they can watch this movie and then LOTR?
i think a lot of it has to do with how much you’re invested in LOTR, and in what way. it seems from reviews that a lot of people are finding The Hobbit to be a little too slow, like the story’s been spread too thin. however, many people will still watch it and enjoy it because they love Middle Earth and LOTR-universe backstory/character stuff, like you said. kind of like with the actual LOTR movies, where millions of people watched and loved the original-release versions, but a fraction of them went on to watch the extended versions. personally, i like both the originals and the extended release, but i see the extended version as being different from the hobbit because it’s fleshing out LOTR canon rather than fleshing out Middle Earth in general/telling a different story altogether.
the attachment i have to LOTR is tied up in its intensity as an epic quest story, like harry potter or star trek, so i don’t really have much interest in a movie that takes place in the same world but doesn’t have the same themes as a story. the hobbit is connected to LOTR and i’m sure its movie adaptations will be full of clever foreshadowing to the events of the LOTR trilogy, but it isn’t isn’t a hero’s journey. bilbo’s personality and and the purpose of his journey are completely different from the frodo/fellowship/aragorn/sauron storylines and the atmosphere that accompanies them.
