Now that the party is without Gandalf, they stand at the entrance to the mysterious and dangerous forest of Mirkwood. Once known as Greenwood the Great in the Elder Days, the forest has grown darker ...
When I first considered this project I did a quick review of the book to try and identify specific parts that were candidates for removal when translating the story to film. To be honest, this next c...
Essentially a transition scene connecting the finding of the Ring to the introduction of Beorn, this chapter shows a notable step in the development of Bilbo’s character. Up to this point, the Dwarve...
The tale of The Hobbit is basically nothing more than a straight forward journey with several diversionary stops along the way. Some of these stops are, arguably, not all that relevant to the overall...
The first thing that jumps out at me about the title of this chapter is "Under Hill". When Gandalf instructs Frodo to take the pseudonym "Underhill" in the film version of "The Fe...
This is a particularly important chapter as it relates to the overall plot. The brief stay at Rivendell therefore is clearly a major event. Here we are introduced to a significant character featured ...
All of the scenes or events in the book can be categorized as major, minor or incidental. Major scenes are central to the story and the primary drivers of the plot. Minor scenes are less important to...
Well, it never rains but it pours. Throughout the month of October a flurry of news has hit the “official” internet news sources about this project. Rather than go back and make parenthetical update ...
Now visualize this: You’re sitting in a theater that darkens a bit more after the endless parade of trailers wraps up. A black screen. Music written by Howard Shore begins filtering in and…wait for i...
One whole year. And nothing. Nada. Goose-egg.Well, that can describe the forward momentum that the “Hobbit” film project has taken. But it can just as easily summarize the output here at Tolkien Geek...
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