Territorial Hobbitses

[bloodyrosemccoy]

I really loved the Lord of the Rings movies--I even think some of the character arcs were better in them--but I can totally understand Christopher Tolkien's issues with them. If I'd spent my entire life in my dad's world and all sorts of other people started barging into it and crashing around, I'd be a bit territorial, too.

This also made me realize that I am far more worried about The Hobbit than I was about LotR, because I am far more invested in Bilbo as a character. He's a brilliant character, possibly the most relatable hero I've ever come across. And he's very hard to get right--I adored the hell out of There and Back Again, Pat Murphy's awesomely insane space opera remix of The Hobbit, but Bailey Beldon is no Bilbo. And I don't know if Martin Freeman could be, either--though if there were somebody I'd want to play him, Freeman's at the top of the list. Right under a magically age-reduced Sir Ian Holm, really. But even with Freeman playing him, it's a question of whether it'll work. We'll just have to see.

Comments

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Go ahead!

Is the film good? I'm intensely curious. And Thorin as a Big Damn Hero bodes well in putting to rest westrider's fears that the Dwarves will be nothing but comic relief!

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

Well, I like it better than the LotR films, just as I like the book better than the books. There were quite a few funny bits (I was grinning like a loon all through the arrival of the dwarves), but it was a case of "this is a character doing something amusing" rather than "LOL, dwarves", I think. And then there were some awesomely serious bits, and epic bits, and creepy bits, and ye GODS I've got to see it again!

The annoying thing about seeing a film like this the day it opens is that I don't want to say too much, 'cos I think it's best if people get to form their own opinions. So I have to rein in my fangirling until the rest of the world has caught up. XD