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

[raim.livejournal.com]

Wait. I am going to admit the embarassing fact that I'm completely not up to date about the Hobbit movie (even though I read pretty much everything Tolkien has written), but they made *three* movies out of that tiny tiny short tiny book? *keels over*

[sofish-sasha.livejournal.com]

Yup. Though they've gone and added stuff from some appendix or other, and some stuff that was only mentioned in the book (like the White Council versus the Necromancer at Dol Guldur) will happen on screen instead. I presume that this is to show how the events that take place during the unexpected journey are the starting points for stuff that happens in LotR.

[raim.livejournal.com]

That seems... silly. Also, I saw the photos of the sexy dwarves now. Hmmm.

Still starting to get excited for the movie, though.