Durin’s Day

How do the dwarves first react to reaching Lake-town safely? They are cross and ungrateful toward Bilbo and his efforts.

Thorin wants the Arkenstone because it’s the thing that united and unites the dwarves. Whoever controls the Arkenstone is considered the rightful king of all of the dwarves (7 families). Thorin wants to obtain the Arkenstone as with it he can unite all the dwarves of Middle Earth to help him fight against Smaug.

What does the description of the hobbit hole in Chapter 1 of The Hobbit reveal Bilbo’s character? It reveals that Bilbo likes adventure. It shows Bilbo has a strong connection to nature. It reveals that Bilbo is open to change.

The initial conflict between Gandalf and the dwarves concerns their estimation of Bilbo’s strengths and his suitability as a member of their expedition. Bilbo Baggins is a simple character—or at least that is what readers are led to believe as the story begins.

The crazy fun songs, such as Sam’s troll song, are there to break up the monotony of the journey, to lighten otherwise tense moods, and to provide some character for the hobbits’ society. Tolkien was showing rather than telling, which is a requirement for all great fiction.

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A couple of months ago, some friends of mine (withVintage Faith Students in Manhattan, KS) demonstrated their immense creativity by writing and performing an original re-telling of the first third or so of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, as a musical. It was amazing.

It all comes down to preproduction time. Since LOTR wasn’t well funded in the beginning due to very few people thinking it would work, they had to plan every detail , and CGI was so much more expensive back then. That’s why all of the extras have such detailed costumes.

Easter eggs and callbacks to The Lord of the Rings were shamelessly forced into the unnecessary subplots of The Hobbit. The Hobbit falls into the pitfalls of the prequel by focusing too much on the past and not enough on telling its own stories. As the original, The Lord of the Rings didn’t have any of those problems.

In a documentary that appeared as a bonus feature on the home media release of The Hobbit, the celebrated director and his crew revealed that a disorganized production and a lack of planning time after taking over from del Toro played a part in turning the 300-odd page novel into a trilogy of movies.

While there are differences in Orc races, the true reason they look different in the movies is that in the hobbit the orcs are motion capture CGI like Gollum. In lord of the rings they are actors in costumes and prosthetics.

One of the main problems in adapting The Hobbit is that Smaug the dragon doesn’t fit the mold of a modern villain, being little more than a hoarder with a bad temper. To solve the problem, Jackson’s Smaug was more vicious than his book counterpart, and this alteration worked well enough for film.

MGM didn’t even officially give The Hobbit the green light until May 2010, the same month that del Toro left the project; the director later revealed that everything was designed and sorted out but the project couldn’t move forward until MGM figured out the business side.

Guillermo del Toro Net Worth and Salary: Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director and producer who has a net worth of $30 million.

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a prequel to his Lord of the Rings trilogy, which most people rushing to The Hobbit will have already seen.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 epic high fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro. It is the third and final instalment in Peter Jackson’s three-part film adaptation based on the novel The Hobbit by J. R. R.

The “Five Armies” are the Elves, the Men, the Dwarves, the Goblins (and Wargs) and the Eagles. Bilbo estimates the force of the Men and Elves on 10,000, but this may not be an accurate estimate. The number of Dwarves of Thorin and Company to have died is seven, but only Thorin and Bombur are named among the dead.

Bilbo wasn’t found until the day after the battle because he had his ring on which kept him invisible and no could see him, the Eagles had turned the tide of the battle.

After Thorin’s death, Dáin became King under the Mountain and King of Durin’s folk, the first not to be in a direct line.

Paul Kocher identifies Saruman’s use of a palantír, a seeing-stone, as the immediate cause of his downfall, but also suggests that through his study of “the arts of the enemy”, Saruman was drawn into imitation of Sauron.

Sauron is considered evil because he served Morgoth (Melkor) he then went to Numenor and did a great deal of evil and trickery upon the men living there, corrupting them and lying to them all in the pursuit of his own means of power.

Initially Gandalf describes Radagast as his ‘cousin’, as he did in The Hobbit, but in a subsequent draft he becomes his ‘kinsman’. Tolkien initially called him “Radagast the Grey”, but in pencil he changed this to “Brown” and subsequently Saruman refers to him as “Radagast the Brown”.

When he dies, his Maia spirit looks towards the West, towards the land of the undying, but is blown away by wind. You see, Maia cannot die, certainly not by hand of a mortal, their spirits are indomitable. Unless the Valar interject, they return to Valinor, just like Elves do after they “die” in Middle-earth.

The spell Radagast uses to drive away the spiders is very powerful magic that was used to combat the spiders whilst also curing Sebastian.

Gandalf the White