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[thorinds]

"Can I help you?” 

“That remains to be seen. I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.”

[masterelrond]

TOLKIEN WEEK | Day 9 ↳ Favorite minor character: Bofur

Endearing and likable, Bofur has a disastrous tendency to state the obvious and blurt out things without thinking. With a love of music and a fine singing voice, Bofur delights in good food and good company and is unfailingly optimistic. Though not especially brave, he will do his best to help those in need, especially those he counts as friends.

[legoilas]

bilbo baggins + sun (warm orange and golden yellow) for anon ♡

[grumpierbilbo]

Bilbo Baggins: An Unexpected Journey

[thoooorin]

Loyalty, honor, a willing heart. I can ask no more than that.

[thcrin]

requested by @whiskeyslasso​

bonus:

[theladyeowyn]

- “What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!”

- “Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. [...] Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many—yours not least.”

[kiandra-layne]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | (2012) dir. Peter Jackson

[spicylove4ever]

It takes a man to stand up to the king

And unfortunatelly you’re in bandages

[aragornslegacy]

#such a power move 

[thorinds]

"He was as noble and fair as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."

Elrond in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

[princeimrahils]

Gandalf and the moth

[legoilas]

middle earth meme: three/nine characters thranduil, do not talk to me of dragon fire! i know its wrath and ruin.

[kenocbi]

plant your trees, watch them grow.           if more people… valued home above gold… this world would be a merrier… place…

[knightpoet]

[echoweaver]

The Hobbit: Back Once Again

After a long break, here is a post that has nothing to do with The Sims!

Movie fanediting happened for me. I’m a bit of a Tolkien fan.

After years of watching all the single-movie Hobbit edits I could find, looking for the match to my personal taste, I eventually fell down the rabbithole of making my own. I call it Back Once Again because I know this is a road many faneditors have trod before me.

This edit clocks in at 2:40 without the full credit scroll. As far as I know, this makes it the second-shortest single-movie Hobbit edit in circulation after FekketCantinel's 2-Hour Hobbit Edit (which is in fact 2:10 and doesn't include the credit scroll).

This is an attempt to make an action-adventure buddy movie from the material. This is more what I'd've thought would be a Peter Jackson interpretation of The Hobbit if I didn't know that Jackson made the movies.

I'm explicitly NOT trying to match the tone of Lord of the Rings. The Hobbit is a kid's adventure book. It should be an adventure story. You’re not going to see a lot of foreshadowing of the nature of the Ring.

To that end, my priories in order have been:

1. Pacing, pacing, pacing

2. MAKING SENSE. This isn't as complicated as LotR, but there's still a bunch of lore and backstory you need for anyone's behavior to make sense. I tried to give secondary characters like Thranduil and Bard well-rounded arcs.

3. Removing artificial tension and streamlining the story so that the actual tension can shine.

4. Highlighting charming scenes, good performances, and gems from the book.

5. Drawing out non-slapstick humor where possible.

One feature of this edit that I haven’t seen in other edits is a detailed “copy-editing” pass that targets pregnant pauses, meaningful glances, repeated lines, beating a point to death, excessive foreshadowing, and gags stepping on their own punchline. I think the bloat is particularly hard on comedic timing, though there are some places where tightening really helps dramatic timing as well.

Scenes I am particularly proud of are:

The opening of the door into the mountain. I’ve removed all the artificial tension running around (i.e. confusion over moonlight vs. sunlight, despair, dropping and losing the key) and turned it into a triumphant moment. We don’t need tension and confusion here. We’re about to go visit a dragon.

Demo clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWT1Y2yXII

Bard vs. Smaug. This is cut as a solo man vs. monster moment. There is no special arrow, no son, and no broken bow. It is just Bard against the dragon in a flaming town, and Bard is down to his last arrow.

The Unexpected Party got a lot of attention. I tried to keep it from dragging while milking as much lightheartedness from it as I could.

The hike into Mirkwood is reordered to make some kind of sense.

There is 70% snot reduction in the Troll scene.

We open on, "In a hole in the ground..." and close with the closing line, "And he lived happily after..." that Ian Holm shares in Fellowship.

I contributed half a verse to the musical flashback (you’ll see what I mean), but I can’t take credit for the rest of it. That’s been kind of an evolving project that began with part of the the Clamavi de Profundis music video and has passed through multiple fan edits before mine. I think it’s amazing.

Other bits that are not unique: No shell story. All plots have been cut except the journey to and battle for the Lonely Mountain. Azog has been removed until the Battle of Five Armies, where he goes unnamed except for one spot I couldn’t figure out how to remove. Legolas is in the background in the Woodland Realm and gets his one cameo scene in bringing news to Gandalf in the Battle of Five (Six?) Armies. He's Thranduil's son. It's not crazy that he'd be there. It's just not important.

Download at link below. (You can download the file using right-click):

http://bit.ly/2QlURlS