The Hobbit

[QuadShot]

Looks great - although I always imagined Bilbo as being a little stouter.  MF's abs look too flat.  :)

He's been working out. :)

[Bryancd]

Looks great - although I always imagined Bilbo as being a little stouter.  MF's abs look too flat.  :)

I blame Rankin-Bass for that!

[wraith1701]

Very cool. :)  I look forward to seeing some images of Smaug. And I'm also eager to see how the goblins are pulled off. I get the feeling that they'll be a lot more scary than the version we got in the  old Rankin Bass film.

[Bromptonboy]

Just watched (for the first time) 'The Long Good Friday' - which is a great UK mobster movie.  I have to reassert my idea that Bob Hoskins would make a great voice of Smaug. 

[Meds]

Pete we are doing The Long Good Friday on Waffle On Soon. (hint)

[Bromptonboy]

Pete we are doing The Long Good Friday on Waffle On Soon. (hint)

Cool!  I'll have a comment for that one.  Really enjoyed it. 

[Bromptonboy]

Over ten years ago, catching a whiff something really big was going down in New Zealand, Empire decided to feature the next film from promising Kiwi director Peter Jackson on its cover. After all, he just happened to be making The Lord Of The Rings. Listen closely to his commentary on Return Of The King and Jackson actually recalls the day that issue of Empire arrived on set — he couldn't quite get his head around the fact they were still shooting! To paraphrase someone in a black and white movie, it was the start of a beautiful friendship.
So in honour of Jackson's long-awaited return to Middle-earth for two dragon-and-dwarf-laden prequels — as a "good luck charm" according the director — Empire takes its symbolic and rightful place as the first magazine in the world to put The Hobbit on its cover. A resplendent 'younger' Gandalf the Grey (look closely for subtle differences in costume from his 60-year older Rings self) taking centre stage alongside the first look at Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins (keep your eyes peeled for a hint or two of dwarf in the issue).
Personally invited onto the set barely a month into production, Empire delightedly watched a film — two films — already in full swing. Thirteen cantankerous dwarves, one barely tolerant wizard, and a befuddled hobbit are seen arriving at the gates of Rivendell and sneered at by local elves. Jackson assures us he is once again reaching for the mighty spectacle of Lord Of The Rings, but also bringing a certain 'Hobbity-ness' all its own. "The tone is actually the part of it I'm enjoying the most," he laughs, casting a fond eye upon his rabble of exotic dwarves, clattering about set like they own the place. "They have a healthy disregard for the icons of Middle-earth."
For the full story see the August issue of Empire out on June 30.

[Rico]

I think there must be orcs trying to get into my basement!   :orc

http://instagr.am/p/G8YjK/?ref=nf

[sheldor]

Watched LOTR part I yesterday.   Jackson should have done the last transformers movie  :banned:

[X]

Watched LOTR part I yesterday.   Jackson should have done the last transformers movie  :banned:

Why?

[Bromptonboy]

I would like to see LOTR and the Hobbit given the HBO treatment - or the same type of coverage as Game of Thrones.  I am a middle-earth junkie - and need MORE.

[Bromptonboy]

Richard Armitage has spoken with Total Film about his role in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit:
We recently sat down with the British actor to talk about his role as dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the two-part Tolkien epic, and he told us: "There's going to be quite a lot more humour.
"The book is so focused on the dwarves, so I think it's a chance for Peter [Jackson] and Fran [Walsh] to really look at that whole race in more detail, their heritage and what they're like as characters."
The dwarves aren't just there as comic relief though, as Armitage has learnt while wielding the Orcrist, Thorin's legendary goblin sword.
"It's bloody heavy!" he told us. "But it's absolutely beautiful to look at. Every time they bring something new out everyone gasps. The armour that the dwarves emerge from the mountain wearing at the end of the film will be the armour of all armour."
Tolkien fan Armitage said that he's in his element shooting in New Zealand: "There was a scene in The Lord Of The Rings where they find the stone trolls, and they're identical in The Hobbit.
"I love those moments, when you link into the world of the film that you've seen before."

[Geekyfanboy]

Check it out.. our first look at some of the Dwarves.

DORI, NORI & ORI
These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be more different from each other. Dori, the oldest, spends much of his time watching out for Ori, the youngest; making sure he's not caught a chill or got himself killed by Wargs or Goblins. Nobody quite knows what Nori gets up to most of the time, except that it's guaranteed to be dodgy and quite probably, illegal. Dori, Nori and Ori are intensely loyal to each other – and whilst they are perfectly happy fighting amongst themselves, woe-betide anyone who means harm to one of these brothers.

[Rico]

Great pic!

[Bryancd]

Awesome!