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    Perhaps the eagles were migratory and out of the region during the first part of the journey.
    That would be as stupid an explanation as the all powerful Tom Bombadil who could control nature and was immortal not being able to take care of the ring because he was too forgetful....

    The best thing Peter Jackson did was to remove that entire Old Forest/Old Man Willow debacle from the film, oh and the poetry and singing of course.

    The LOTR is a lot like the Bible imo, epic is scale, fantastic characters and history but full of some fucking weird shit.

    I couldn't read it now, it would just ruin my childhood memories when I could overlook such gaity.

    I'm guessing Jackson will ditch the sing songs from the Hobbit movie too. If the dwarves start singing 'chip the glasses, crack the plates, that's what Bilbo Baggins hates!', the film will bomb.

    They had best change the name of most of the dwarves as well, or at least remain silent on the topic. Fili, Kili, Dori, Nori, Oin and Gloin, Bifur and Bofur, Bomber (HattontheHammer) etc will make for a shit film.

    I'm rather dreading it to be honest, it could be great, but it also turn out to be a Phantomn Menace type disaster.

    I hate so much the last Star wars that I still haven't seen the last one.. and apparently it is the best of the 3... I can't stand Jar Jar Bing and the stupid jokes they make during the whole thing (especially when they are in the sea with the pathetic joke about the fishes). As for LOTR, Tom Bombadil has another problem: He's more or less bound to the forest where he lives. He's mighty powerful because he knows a lot of the songs that were used during the creation and can easily control a lot about the nature but he's bound to the place where he comes from. He's also quite mad on the side after all these thousand of years of living alone with his babe and because he's older than the ring itself, which means that possibly, he has no clue of all the where about that happened, he's just there disconnected from reality.
    Do you not agree with me though that the The Fellowship of the Ring would be a better book without Bombadil in it at all? Some stupid dancing leprachaun in bright yellow boots singing 'Hey Nonny Nonny' no wonder Jackson kept him the fuck out of the films. Awful, awful character.

    Trouble with the Hobbit is that it's full of these kind of character disasters.

    The talking trolls at the start who argue over how to cook Bilbo. The dogs and cats that walk on two legs and lay out the cutlery and do the dishes in Beorn's home.

    The 14 dwarves with the ridiculous names and their singsongs.

    I'm just worried there is too much awful material that could bomb on film.

    The spiders in Mirkwood could be fun, and I imagine the Battle of Five Armies will be specactular though.

    The trouble is though the goblins, wargs and wood elves in the Hobbit are more like the Lion, Chronicles of Narnia type child fare than they are the fearsome Urak Hai and tall, handsome noble Elven race of the LOTR books which were aimed at an older audience.

    I'm just a bit dubious about Jackson's ability to carry it off, especially after the Lovely Bones, which was a disaster.
    Last edited by Kev; 05-17-2010 at 09:59 PM.

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