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'The Hobbit' Part 3..Richard Armitage Teases Ending of Film Being Different from Tolkien's Version?
ENSTARS ^ | By Natasha Taggart, ENSTARS / Mar 31, 2014 01:49 PM EDT

Posted on 04/01/2014 3:33:57 PM PDT by Perdogg

In a recent interview, Richard Armitage revealed that he was quite emotional about the completion of the trilogy.

The 42-year-old actor spoke with BANG Showbiz about finally wrapping the trilogy and how now that the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogy was completed, he was very moved.

"It will be 15 years of Peter Jackson's work, there'll be six movies to watch, but it could be the final time. There's something moving about that," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at enstarz.com ...


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KEYWORDS: lordoftherings; lotr; newzealand; peterjackson; richardarmitage; thehobbit; tolkien
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Christopher Tolkien said that the estate refused to help with the making of the movies.
1 posted on 04/01/2014 3:33:57 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

Why on earth (or Middle Earth) would you make a move from a classic story that millions love & CHANGE it???!!!

Well, at least I don’t have to spend time or money watching it.


2 posted on 04/01/2014 3:36:37 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Perdogg

Once Christopher has passed, the Silmarillion will be filmed.

Enough material for multiple billion dollar movies.


3 posted on 04/01/2014 3:36:59 PM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; fidelis; JDoutrider; Tax-chick; Altariel; Ann de IL

I can see how since the last movies ended pretty much near the end. I am wondering if the “Battle of the Five Armies” will be skipped in favor of a battle in Mirkwood’S Dol Guldur against the Necromancer - as hinted about in the novel, but was more of an after thought.


4 posted on 04/01/2014 3:39:36 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: icwhatudo

The Silmarillion is too confusing to film. It’s even “written” more in pastiche form.

You can bet that a lot of people would find the Ainulindalë offensive (Tolkien’s version of a “Creation myth”).


5 posted on 04/01/2014 3:42:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Perdogg

The Battle of Five Armies is too central, ultimately. It’s too akin to major battles like those fought at Helm’s Deep or Minas Tirith, or even at Mordor’s Black Gate.


6 posted on 04/01/2014 3:43:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Twotone

They changed the end of LOTR also.


7 posted on 04/01/2014 3:44:45 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I support Joe Carr in the TN GOP Primary against Lamar!)
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To: Fledermaus

Don’t give away the book, I am just at the beginning of the “Treebeards” in the second novel. ;) I saw the movies.


8 posted on 04/01/2014 3:52:37 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Fledermaus

Yea, made the mistake of watching that one. Never again.


9 posted on 04/01/2014 3:55:00 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Perdogg

Don’t worry. I’ll be dead by the time you finish the third! lol


10 posted on 04/01/2014 3:55:02 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I support Joe Carr in the TN GOP Primary against Lamar!)
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They changed the end of LOTR also.

Uh... In what material way?

11 posted on 04/01/2014 3:56:50 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Ramius

Sounds like anger over the omission of the Scouring of the Shire. (redux.)


12 posted on 04/01/2014 3:57:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Ramius
"Uh... In what material way?"

Ahh "The Scouring of the Shire"...

Which is a fairly big part of the Hobbits' story.

13 posted on 04/01/2014 3:59:19 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Olog-hai

I would like to see a couple of the movies dealing with the second-age and ending with the battle in Mordor where Isildur recovers the ring. I want to have more screen time with the Witch king of Angmar.


14 posted on 04/01/2014 3:59:39 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Fledermaus

It took me only a month to get through the first one.


15 posted on 04/01/2014 4:00:20 PM PDT by Perdogg (Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
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To: Ramius

Iirc Frodo, Sam, Merri and Pippin showed back up to a very different/changed Shire. Then kicked some serious a** fixing it.

Think Arnold Schwartzenegger as Hamlet in the only good scene from Last Action Hero,

;-)


16 posted on 04/01/2014 4:02:21 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Perdogg

The story doesn’t say anything like the headline suggests. Nothing seems changed from the book story.

I had forgotten how dark the ending to The Hobbit was. It had been years since I read it... And just damn... It goes to some dark places.


17 posted on 04/01/2014 4:03:54 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Fledermaus

They changed a lot of things in all three of the LOTR movies. One example: Arwen was not such an active character in the books, but emerged as such in the first movie—in the book, it was an elf called Glorfindel that met Strider and the Hobbits when the Nazgûl were pursuing them en route to Rivendell, and it was Elrond and Gandalf that “commanded” the flood at the ford of the river Bruinen that washed the Nazgûl and their horses downstream, not Arwen.

(The cartoon directed by Ralph Bakshi replaced Glorfindel with Legolas, BTW.)


18 posted on 04/01/2014 4:04:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Richard Armitage?

I get the feeling the former Deputy Secretary of State's take on this might be more interesting than that of some obscure English actor.

19 posted on 04/01/2014 4:06:38 PM PDT by x
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To: Olog-hai

Digging in the weeds there. Give an old man a break, I read the books in 1976! lol


20 posted on 04/01/2014 4:06:49 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I support Joe Carr in the TN GOP Primary against Lamar!)
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