Hobbit Update
Peter Jackson's latest video blog from The Hobbit covers the last days of shooting. More new images of what we can expect to see when Part 1 of The Hobbit finally premiers later this year. One surprise from the video is that Sylvester McCoy (aka the 7th Doctor, aka the last Doctor on Dr Who that was any good) will be in the movie as the Radagast the Brown, one of the Istari (the wizards like Gandalf and Saruman). Radagast was only mentioned in the book The Hobbit, and had only a very small part in the LotR books.
Anyways, enjoy:
Anyways, enjoy:
posted by The Mad Builder of Periwinkle at 09:00
2 Comments:
I have read just about everything Tolkien-related. There's plenty of other material to make more films from. Lots of stories that can stand on their own. The Istari are as engimatic a bunch as anything Tolkien wrote about. Through his tales we know more about the evil than we do the good. Probably comes from a soldier's soul-searching while crouching in trenches with death and destruction raging all around you.
You're right, the whole world and the history of Middle Earth is so rich. "The Children of Hurin" was actually a very good book that would be interesting to see as a movie. Was written very much in the style and language of the Elder Tolkien that I wouldn't have noticed it was his son had I not known. You could also expand some of the shorter stories like those about the Fall of Gondolin, Beren and Luthien or the stories around Beleriand and its ruin. Unfortunately I think it would take alot to make those other stories "commercial" enough to appeal to a mass audience the way LotR did and I expect The Hobbit will.
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