One could say that for every other thing everybody geeks out about as well. And I agree.

Agreed, I'm not very fond of the fundamentalist turn that geekdom in general has decided to take. When I see someone nerdraging, whether legitimately or not, I just feel kinda sorry for them, because it's just not worth the energy.

They're mostly actors in suits,with a few of them having cg "makeup" on their faces.

Haha, yes. I'm actually of the persuasion that many movies would be improved if they were longer. Longer movies are better for character development, mood-making and myth-making, in my opinion, which is what a movie set in middle-earth should be. Tolkien created an entire mythology that in real life takes an entire…

Mind you, if that was the case, there'd be plenty of geeks nerdraging over how The Hobbit doesn't "feel" like LotR. Which, if you compared The Hobbit to the rest of the Middle Earth canon, is pretty much the case. The Hobbit as a book is an exception, not the rule, when compared to the rest of Tolkien's mythology, and…

I've got the book with me. The only description most of the dwarves get IS their cloak colors. and the descriptions aren't long at all.

The book is a little more than just a "little" silly. Things really don't get serious at all until the end with the Battle of the Five Armies and Smaug. And about Goblintown, remember, the big thing most people remember about Goblintown is the freakin' silly Goblintown song.

Indeed. I like how this video shows how well-blended the 2 genres really are.

Wouldn't be LotR without at least one instance of it in each movie.

My headcanon is that the wargs in LotR were significantly altered by Saruman and Sauron, and these are more "natural" wargs, or at least there are variations in the species.

Exactly my thoughts as well. If it was filmed exactly like the book, there'd be plenty of nerdraging over how it didn't have enough grimdark (which it looks like is already happening). It looks like Jackson hit the right balance of the children's book-feel of the Hobbit with the more serious tones of LotR. But yeah,…

I mentioned that to him as well. My thoughts are this, the Hobbit, as a book is an outlier when it comes to other works in the Middle Earth canon. Hell, the Silmarillion has many stories that would look amazingly epic if brought to the screen, but a movie series of that would probably be of an unfathomably length. If…

Agreed, my thoughts exactly. If the film was filmed to scale with the novel, I think there'd be more outcry over how the film didn't match up with the LotR at all. The tone and feel of the book is completely different from any of the other works in the Middle Earth canon. So, yeah, I do understand the need to make it…

Agreed, you have to go into this movie with a different mindset than LotR. The Hobbit was intentionally written for children, so that's important to keep in mind for certain people before they nerdrage.

I personally prefer longer movies, so I don't mind. There's also a lot of material that will be added to the movies that were not present in the novel itself but were in supplementary materials as happening at the same time.

That first scene with the dwarves literally falling in? Taken directly from the book. If you have a problem with that, take it up with Tolkien. You might need a medium, though.

Yeah, I do imagine it is very good. I was just making a bad joke about the title. Something about imagining samurai lopping the heads off of sparkly vampires feels good.

Also, if you're imaginative, take a good western (as in wild west) film. Now, imagine that it takes place in Japan with swords instead of guns. Boom, instant samurai film.

Twilight Samurai....heh heh, that brings up a very amusing mental image.

Hehe :D