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In reply to deepstar:

Where did all that stuff come from...lady elves?

In reply to Bulls Crack:

That would be Galadriel the ladiest of all elves!

In reply to coinneach:

very true,,,sigh But the dark haired one - who's that?

I thought the first one was overblown, padded nonsense. I won't make the mistake of wasting more hours of my life on this.

In reply to angry pirate:


Quite so. That whirring noise in the background is either a) JRRT turning in his grave or b) Peter Jackson's profit-counter going into overdrive. Possibly both.

I watched the first instalment of blithering, toe-curlingly-overdone lunacy that called itself The Hobbit on a plane to Australia. Deliberately, because those are hours of my life that I don't want back anyway

I suppose it was quite fun, in an I-can't-think-of-anything-else-I-might-be-doing-right-now-that-would-irritate-me-any-less kind of way.

In reply to deepstar:

Sort of GTA V, with beards.

Brown haired lady elves are good however....

I really enjoyed the first one and this looks good. Yes, a bit overblown and weak in places but, overall, i liked. Don't forget, it's deliberately directed at children whereas LOR is more adult. God, there are so much worse things to spend a few hours doing around the lunacy of Xmas.

In reply to Skyfall:

Agreed.

Plus, Peter Jackson according to the UN centre for economics has added 34.76% to the entire global dwarf population GDP.

In reply to John Rushby:

Lol - stout chap

In reply to John Rushby:

I think you'll find that figure is disputed as they included house-elves from Harry Potter in the calculation.

the first episode of the hobbit trilogy was a bit lame compared to the LOTR's but as others have said my daughter loved it, we had decided to read the book together knowing it was a film coming out and she enjoyed it. We've now finished the book and I'm looking forward to seeing the others. Last week she asked if we could read the lord of the rings books.

In reply to Bulls Crack:

There's no problem with lady elves, some of the key characters in LOTR are lady elves.

Lady dwarves however...

In reply to Dave Garnett:

Indeed, that Lady Arwen Undomiel is definitely not untidy - I think it's the ears that do it!

I can't actually think of a lady dwarf ever being mentioned in either The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings, apart from possibly an indication of there being a paucity of them.

In reply to Dave Garnett:

Id like to point out that I don't have a problem with lady elves per se - I'm no faery misogynist - but she wasn't in the book - but hen again so are loads of other characters in this

In reply to deepstar:

Why are you complaining about lady elves? That massive white orc isn't in the book either.
Radagast (Stoner wizard) was only mentioned in the book!

In reply to SteveoS:

Azog is in the Hobbit but only mentioned in passing by Gandalf.

In reply to Bulls Crack:

But hasn't a lot of the extra material been taken from the Silmarillion? It's been a while since I read it, mind.

In reply to Dave Garnett:


Hmm not sure. I seem to recall reading somewhere that they don't have the rights to include anything in the Silmarillion, but it's a vague memory!

In reply to deepstar:

A lot of stuff is taken from the notes/Appendices to Lord of the Rings. And expanded upon. Nothing from the Silmarillion if I recall rightly.

In reply to RockSteady:

I'm just re-reading LOTR (after at least 20 years) - Female dwarves are aluded too much in the same way as they are in Discworld. They all pretty much look the same, beards and all.

It's the female Ents who have gone walkabouts.

In reply to deepstar:

I reckon that Bilbo will eventually kill Smaug.

In reply to Durbs:

Indeed - Treebeard rues the loss of the Entwives.

In reply to Clauso:

And that Thorin Oakenshield had better keep his wits about him!

In reply to Clauso:

I hear the x-rated version will have Bilbo playing with Saurons ring!

In reply to Bulls Crack: if I remember correctly there is not a single living female character in the hobbit (book).

Still, sexy elves sell in Hollywood!

In reply to maxsmith:

They sell here too!