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belchingmatt
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But you would still have the crappy voice from Andy Serkis. 
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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l3v1ck
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Meh. They pretty much did that with The Return Of The King prolog.
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lumbthelesser
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I would hope not. Looking at casting etc, I suspect what they are adding/showing is what Gandalf goes off and does with the other wizards regarding Sauron, which would do a lot more to set up what is to come in LOTR. I also thought the trailer looked... suspect, particularly how they have done the dwarves. But then, the Hobbit is a children's book, LOTR isn't. I was quite surprised, rereading it, just how cartoonishly everything is described and how unlike the middle earth recorded everywhere else it is. Which is a shame. Definitely going to be difficult to take seriously...
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leeds_manc
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A bit like the Tom Bombadil chapter in Fellowship  What struck me was the po-faced atmosphere in the trailer - where was the excitement of a fairytale adventure where nothing really matters? - it feels like the whole LOTR films got stuck in that mindset of the last few chapters where everything is fading away and dying - yes that's a big part of the book, but there's also magic and wizards and monsters and there should be way more excitement and fun (by which I don't mean epic CGI battles). Hopefully The Hobbit will be more fun, and more character-level-focussed than LOTR, and less "epic". Unfortunately they seem to be trying to bill it as LOTR 2.
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lumbthelesser
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Please may the similarities with Star Wars end there...
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timark_uk
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timark_uk
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robin
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This translated article from Le Monde in early July of a rare interview with Christopher Tolkien about the whole film saga etc might be of interest – it is a fairly LOOng read tho' so are you sitting comfortably? http://sedulia.blogs.com/sedulias_trans ... -felt.html 
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timark_uk
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A slightly more reasoned article about what could possibly be included which has stretched the book to three films. Everything Peter Jackson added to The Hobbit — with PROOF!Mark
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paulzolo
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There's only so much of this wizard/elf stuff I can take before bits of my brain tells me that I've seen it all before and, really, I don't need any more of it. I was looking outward to a Hobbit film, but this seems to be taking the thing to homeopathic strengths.
I guess Lego and GamesWorshop will be happy that there's a trilogy worth of merchandise to market.
Today, I am feeling "cynical".
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belchingmatt
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+1 I would be happy with a single 3 hour max. film.
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l3v1ck
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