LoL. Legless Lego Legolas!

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

With just a week remaining before the official premiere of The Hobbit part 1, news and hints of the movie are flooding the global info-sphere like a horde of Orcs. Now that we know the movie will be stuffed with spectacular battles and elf-on-dwarf love (Kate from Lost playing an elvish warrior princess, WTF?), the latest addition to this awesome hype is Colbert's series of interviews with actors from The Hobbit, which has spanned the whole week: first Gandalf ("You! Shall!... Pass!"), then Bilbo himself ("Here's a Lego Legolas. A leg-less Lego Legolas."), and then monkey Caesar... er, I mean Gollum, etc etc etc. Also, where the Orodruin Hell did Colbert get the Sting from!?

The map at the beginning of this week's Colbert Report is hilarious btw:



"Hipster's Deep"? ROFL!

I loved this bit the most:



And yes, there IS a legless Lego Legolas!



Btw what's all this debate on the 48 frames per second thing? Why do some people seem to hate it so much?

Comments

[telemann.livejournal.com]

The producers purchased the film rights to the appendices at the end of LOTR. Tolkien planned a rewrite of The Hobbit to deal with some of the plot holes (LOTR evolved as he wrote it; and it's fascinating to read those preliminary versions and compare it to the finished book). The trilogy of Hobbit movies will fill in the details and background stories.

[chron-job.livejournal.com]

I started out this post thinking to say "It will never happen, but I'd love to see a movie treatment of The Children of Hurin, which was my favorite, and one of the most tragic stories in The Sillmarillion"

then I went looking for the Quenya translation of the story's name, as it was referred to in Tolkien's work, and instead discovered that Christopher had finished / fleshed out that particular tragic narrative and it is now available as its own work.

SQUEEEEE!!!!!

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I adore the collection of Father Christmas Letter's Tolkien prepared for his children. I got a Kindle version of that with lots of the pen and ink illustrations Tolkien did (including the North Pole Polar Bear his two sidekick cubs, Paksu and Valkotukka), along with some alphabets and letters from the elves in Santa's workshop.

Such phenomenal creativity.

[ddstory.livejournal.com]

But will they ever make a movie out of it?

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Especially interesting are the early editions of The Hobbit, where the ring Bilbo won was not nearly as consequential as it became.

(Tolkien, Author of the Century is a must-read for LOTR decipherers.)

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

I remember that. I first read it in a famous Bulgarian cartoon magazine. The whole ring episode occupied no more than half a page.