HOBBIT trailer!

[Martinus]

Looks like a complete rip-off tip-off of those Lord Of The Ring films. It's even got that same wizard geezer in it.

Exactly.  When done, these will be the first two movies of a pentalogy.  The director has stated how careful he has been in filming to modify his style in the second movie to evolve into something resembling Jackson's, so that viewers see the works as part of a whole.

I think grumbler didn't get the joke. 

[Razgovory]

I'm confused this is slated to be out in 2013

The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Is he making a two part??

The IMDB page has a cast listing for Azog and for Thrain, so I am guessing this story includes not just the Hobbit, but the whole story leading up to it (as told by Gandalf at Rivendell, and as expanded in the Appendices).  This ties the story into the LOTR story, so is a smart way to do it, given the popularity of the first movie trilogy.

I think I read that movie is going to have the White Council so I suppose there will be something about the war against the Necromancer in Dol Guldar.  That would explain why we see Galadriel.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I'm confused this is slated to be out in 2013

The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Is he making a two part??

The IMDB page has a cast listing for Azog and for Thrain, so I am guessing this story includes not just the Hobbit, but the whole story leading up to it (as told by Gandalf at Rivendell, and as expanded in the Appendices).  This ties the story into the LOTR story, so is a smart way to do it, given the popularity of the first movie trilogy.

I think I read that movie is going to have the White Council so I suppose there will be something about the war against the Necromancer in Dol Guldar.  That would explain why we see Galadriel.

It had better.  Radaghast the Brown was cut unfairly.

[grumbler]

I think grumbler didn't get the joke. 

You think.... poorly.

[PRC]

I think I read that movie is going to have the White Council so I suppose there will be something about the war against the Necromancer in Dol Guldar.  That would explain why we see Galadriel.

It had better.  Radaghast the Brown was cut unfairly.

Seeing Galadriel could also be explained by the story being told by Bilbo to Frodo as they leave for the West at the end of Lord of the Rings.  That looks like how the movie is being setup to me.  It starts at the end of the Lord of the Rings and is told in flashback.

[Sophie Scholl]

Definitely White Council/Dol Guldar shots in the trailer, at least from what I can see.  There's one with, I presume, Thrain looking all zombie dwarf like and Gandalf and some others with just Gandalf in dark/ruin-y places.  Also, as people mentioned Galadriel is in Rivendell it would seem.

[grumbler]

Seeing Galadriel could also be explained by the story being told by Bilbo to Frodo as they leave for the West at the end of Lord of the Rings.  That looks like how the movie is being setup to me.  It starts at the end of the Lord of the Rings and is told in flashback.

Bilbo never met Galadriel, I don't believe, except maybe between the time he arrived in Rivendell after The Party and before Frodo arrived.

[PRC]

Bilbo never met Galadriel, I don't believe, except maybe between the time he arrived in Rivendell after The Party and before Frodo arrived.

In Peter Jackson's film version of the Return of the King they leave on the same ship for the West.  Celeborn, Galadriel, Gandalf, Frodo and Bilbo all leave on that ship.

[The Brain]

Bilbo never met Galadriel, I don't believe, except maybe between the time he arrived in Rivendell after The Party and before Frodo arrived.

In Peter Jackson's film version of the Return of the King they leave on the same ship for the West.  Celeborn, Galadriel, Gandalf, Frodo and Bilbo all leave on that ship.

My God that's some dreary shuffleboard team mates.

[grumbler]

In Peter Jackson's film version of the Return of the King they leave on the same ship for the West.  Celeborn, Galadriel, Gandalf, Frodo and Bilbo all leave on that ship.

In Tolkien's version, too, except that Bilbo wasn't telling any stories about it.  I suppose the story could be told as they sail into the west, but that doesn't seem likely.  To "sail into the West" was a euphemism for death.

[grumbler]

My God that's some dreary shuffleboard team mates.

But it would make for some great Bingo! 

[Razgovory]

Seeing Galadriel could also be explained by the story being told by Bilbo to Frodo as they leave for the West at the end of Lord of the Rings.  That looks like how the movie is being setup to me.  It starts at the end of the Lord of the Rings and is told in flashback.

I don't think so.  When Bilbo left for the West he was visibly aged, hair turned white and senile, in the trailer he's depicted as was before he gave the Ring to Frodo.

[Ender]

Indeed. It looks rather like something Bilbo was writing down with the intention to give it to Frodo before he left for Rivendell after his famous birthday party.

[Darth Wagtaros]

He was writing it all down, wasn't he? There and Back Again, which was begun by Bilbo and finished by Frodo?

[grumbler]

Indeed. It looks rather like something Bilbo was writing down with the intention to give it to Frodo before he left for Rivendell after his famous birthday party.