“Far over the misty mountains cold, to dungeons deep and caverns old. We must away ere break of day, to seek the pale enchanted gold.” Misty Mountain.
If you start hearing this song in your head then you have seen the movie The Hobbit. The movie was written by Fran Walsh, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, and Philippa Boyens. Part of the charm of The Hobbit is J.R.R. Tolkien’s vivid creation of Middle Earth. Peter Jackson, who directed the Lord of the Rings Trilogy about ten years ago, does an admirable job bringing Tolkien’s world to life. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as author of the classic fantasy books such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
This movie was set 60 years before The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which tells the tale of young Bilbo Baggins and his greatest adventure. Baggins lives in a happy utopia called the Shire. The wizard Gandalf arrives to recruit the unlikely Baggins for a mission to rescue the home of the Dwarf kingdom from a fire-breathing dragon. There are 13 dwarves that lead him through this long journey. On the way, they meet elves, orcs, goblins, and an assortment of odd and frightening creatures.
The Shire seems the very embodiment of village peace, with flowers and sunshine and cozy little homesteads crisscrossed by dirt paths and picket fences. It’s the perfect calm place for a hobbit to live.
My opinion on the movie follows the trilogy very well. I enjoy how they used the same actors for Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Gollum (Andy Serkis). To know that they would continue on with the story line and keep doing with the same role means they enjoy the series too. The movie has its downfalls as well. Even at three hours Jackson and his screenwriters are never able to tame the unruly mass of dwarves in the party. There are 13 dwarves, of whom about three are memorable. Richard Armitrage is great as the hunky, hot-headed Thorin, leader of the group seeking to seize the mountain back from the dragon Smaug. Ken Stott brings subtle reserves of sadness as Balin, an older dwarf who advises Thorin. And James Nesbitt is wonderful as Bofur, a dwarf with a biting sense of humor.
The rest of the company sort of fades into the background; I could tell you their names, but not which one was which. That’s a problem in the source material, where having a large number of dwarves is part of the story; on screen it never quite gets beyond feeling crowded and overwhelmed.
Besides that the movie was great and now I can’t wait for the next one to come out.
If you start hearing this song in your head then you have seen the movie The Hobbit. The movie was written by Fran Walsh, Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, and Philippa Boyens. Part of the charm of The Hobbit is J.R.R. Tolkien’s vivid creation of Middle Earth. Peter Jackson, who directed the Lord of the Rings Trilogy about ten years ago, does an admirable job bringing Tolkien’s world to life. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as author of the classic fantasy books such as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
This movie was set 60 years before The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which tells the tale of young Bilbo Baggins and his greatest adventure. Baggins lives in a happy utopia called the Shire. The wizard Gandalf arrives to recruit the unlikely Baggins for a mission to rescue the home of the Dwarf kingdom from a fire-breathing dragon. There are 13 dwarves that lead him through this long journey. On the way, they meet elves, orcs, goblins, and an assortment of odd and frightening creatures.
The Shire seems the very embodiment of village peace, with flowers and sunshine and cozy little homesteads crisscrossed by dirt paths and picket fences. It’s the perfect calm place for a hobbit to live.
My opinion on the movie follows the trilogy very well. I enjoy how they used the same actors for Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Gollum (Andy Serkis). To know that they would continue on with the story line and keep doing with the same role means they enjoy the series too. The movie has its downfalls as well. Even at three hours Jackson and his screenwriters are never able to tame the unruly mass of dwarves in the party. There are 13 dwarves, of whom about three are memorable. Richard Armitrage is great as the hunky, hot-headed Thorin, leader of the group seeking to seize the mountain back from the dragon Smaug. Ken Stott brings subtle reserves of sadness as Balin, an older dwarf who advises Thorin. And James Nesbitt is wonderful as Bofur, a dwarf with a biting sense of humor.
The rest of the company sort of fades into the background; I could tell you their names, but not which one was which. That’s a problem in the source material, where having a large number of dwarves is part of the story; on screen it never quite gets beyond feeling crowded and overwhelmed.
Besides that the movie was great and now I can’t wait for the next one to come out.