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 Post subject: Re: First sight of Iron Hills Dwarves?
PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:21 am 
Well this original post was a bit off and rude! I want to hereby apologize for this. I think actors of a movie that's an adaptation of a book should at least work themselves into the story a bit by themselves. If the book hasn't any importance anymore, there shouldn't be a movie about it.

Why can't the dwarves just stay on foot as they used to? :P

Well everyone can has his opinion so I wont judge this anymore!


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 11:42 am 
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Yeah an actor who didn't even read the book plays a major role...awesome! That explains a lot :D But hey doesn't matter it's PJ's adaptation after all...what a big pile of BS!


Not sure I get this at all, loads of the actors who played major roles in LOTR and the Hobbit hadn't read it, many of them did but even if they didn't so what? There's so little about Dain in the book that it would barely help anyway and he's another character that PJ and crew are gonna have to flesh out an awful lot to make him sit well with cinema audiences (he's essentially a new character who turns up at the very end and gets the throne - I imagine casual film goers would think it made more sense for Dwalin or Balin to rule).

I'd far rather PJ hired decent, interesting actors than a bunch of Tolkien fans who know the book backwards and I don't think his lack of knowledge of the source material will affect his performance one jot.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 12:59 pm 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 2:42 pm 
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I've never understood that attitude. What is wrong with keeping a story pure so to speak? I have no problem with adaptations or changes but lets not change the normal story arch and claim its still the same thing.

Humerous Example to drive the point home:
My grandmother has always been quite the character and so when "reading" my sister or myself stories such as Little Red Riding Hood she would make up the stories while pretending to read the book, included in these adaptaions was one where LRRH had a plane and bombed out the whole woods to create a landing strip for her plane so she could get to grandma's more easily.

The point of all that being that a story can of course be altered for the fun of it, but everyone recognizes the divergence and doesn't treat it as the original, and I'm hoping the Iron Hills Dwarves stay true here.

Although if they want to give them the Battle Wagons from Battle for Middle Earth 2: Rise of the Witch-King I'd be fine with that :rofl:

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 2:58 pm 
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I personally don't like the idea of Boar cavalry, but we'll see how PJ manages to do it. It has been said before that the actor playing dain might have been joking (He is both a comedian and see the reaction of the fans) but I expect that not to be the case.

Perhaps this is Dain or one of Thorin's company in Erebor armour....?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:31 pm 
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It seems there is that kind of troop in this "official" videogame:

http://hobbitarmies.wikia.com/wiki/Boar_Riders

Mmmh I'm not sure they could allow this without WB permission.

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 Post subject: Re: First sight of Iron Hills Dwarves?
PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:34 pm 
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hurray dwarves riding pigs! lol
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