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Here's the official synopsis for The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies
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Posted on 07/18/2014 3:05:38 AM PDT by Perdogg

Whilst a synopsis is maybe not entirely necessary given that the title of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies pretty much sums up what the films about - a battle involving five different armies. Warner Brothers have released the official synopsis.

Okay, so it goes into a bit more detail than "there are five armies and they do battle" so it isn't entirely a lost cause like the 'Snakes on a Plane' synopsis might've been, and I'm pretty much allowing my prejudice against the third Hobbit film's name change shine through. I liked 'There and Back Again' dammit!

(Excerpt) Read more at uk.movies.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: jrrtolkien; peterjackson; thehobbit
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To: ThomasMore

Wow, I’m the same way, although I could not grasp the Feanorian, haha. It may sound odd but to me the Catholic truth in the books lifts it so far above anything else I have ever read, almost as if, and I’m sure there is, a breath of Divine inspiration in the work. And what I mean by that is Tolkien’s own love of the Church, Christianity, his fellow man, hope and virtue. It seems more than just a story; to me, and many others I’m sure.

Thanks for sharing, there are many people who love the story but I imagined myself many times wishing to be a part of Tolkien’s T.C.B.S group, or having contemporaries such as he had.

Perhaps in the world to come.


21 posted on 07/18/2014 9:54:09 AM PDT by Cap'n Crunch
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To: Perdogg

So, is this finally the end of “The Milking Of ‘The Hobbit’”? Next up is “The Milking Of ‘The Silmarillion’”. You know it’s going to happen.


22 posted on 07/18/2014 2:13:17 PM PDT by Seruzawa (Gully Foyle is my name, and Terra is my nation)
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To: driftdiver

Hey, it’s JRRT that didn’t like Goblins, not me. I’m sure most Goblins are peaceful; it’s just the few extremists that give the rest a bad name.


23 posted on 07/18/2014 3:55:18 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: ThomasMore; All

I’ve read The Hobbit and The Trilogy every year since 1972, when I found the boxed four-volume set in an office supply store.

The Hobbit movies, in my estimation, are an expansion of the lives and history of the Dwarves, and I like the literary license of that expansion. I mean, were it not for the Dwarves in the Unexpected Journey, and Gollum’s entry, there would have been no LOTR.

Just sayin’.

If you lose your ability to allow literary license, and can’t accept another person’s perception of events as established by yet a third person, then you have lost much more.

I’m happy with all of them, though there are bits and pieces that don’t jive with my mental pictures, I won’t complain about someone else’s mental pictures. Especially since he makes those pictures come to life.


24 posted on 07/18/2014 4:29:17 PM PDT by Monkey Face (When I told you I was normal, I may have exaggerated slightly.)
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To: Seruzawa

I think “The Silmarillion” would be too complicated for the general public. I think a lot would accuse Jackson of ripping off both GoT and The Clash of the Titans. I remember when I saw Dune in 1984 they handed out leaflets to explain a lot things.


25 posted on 07/18/2014 5:37:04 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg

No worries. They’ll just plug some Tolkien characters into the Plot-O-Matic and generate some CGI.


26 posted on 07/18/2014 5:46:02 PM PDT by Seruzawa (Gully Foyle is my name, and Terra is my nation)
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To: Seruzawa

Who would you have play Galadriel?


27 posted on 07/18/2014 5:53:11 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg

Olga Kurylenko! Hubba hubba!

Or if she’s not available, Mila Kunis.


28 posted on 07/18/2014 6:11:55 PM PDT by Seruzawa (Gully Foyle is my name, and Terra is my nation)
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To: camle

They needed the room to introduce a female lead.


29 posted on 07/18/2014 6:40:16 PM PDT by paul544
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To: Perdogg

Boba-Jason?

Mark


30 posted on 07/19/2014 6:02:36 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: Seruzawa

Olga or Mila could probably play Lúthien Tinúviel but not Galadriel. Galadriel is blonde.


31 posted on 07/20/2014 4:14:26 AM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Perdogg

Here’s another synopsis: These Movies Are Nothing Like The Book.


32 posted on 07/23/2014 10:43:40 PM PDT by hsalaw
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