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The Hobbit 1 Movie Reaction

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leonie

I'm so excited for this one

Michael W

Great reaction. It's going to be a blast watching these with you and seeing you catch up on some of the lore. The Gollum scene was a stand out for sure. I'm sure others will have more accurate/detailed answers, but yes, The Hobbit was published first (1930s, if you can believe it) followed by the three parts of LOTR (1950s). The gist of the adventure (Lonely Mountain/Smaug) and most of the locations they visit are from the book. They added/expanded the roles of the villains in the movies and embellished a lot of the action along the way. "Radagast" (the brown wizard) was Will's password to get into Castle Byers. Been a long time since I've read The Hobbit, but there are a lot of songs (prose/poems/lyrics), and some are fairly long. And yes, there is one when the dwarves are captured by the goblins. But in the movie, when the Great Goblin brakes out in a Broadway musical.... that was way out of place and a bit cringe. I had always imagined more of a sinister chant than an outright show tune.

Dioskur

Ok so a very very short overview about Tolkiens works: The overall of its creation is called the "Legendarium" and most of it deals with Middle Earth but not everything is canon in its initial version. Some things have changed or are a bit "on the side". The started lose parts of it very early in his life but by 1930 "The Hobbit" was the started and later finished and published as a childrens book. The success of the Hobbit lead to some pressure to quickly follow up with a sequel. But by that time the Legendarium has grown imensely and the sequel wouldnt be just a funny little kids tale. Tolkien didnt just write the Lord of the Rings, he was creating many more stories, songs and tales that form the world but are not part of the LOTR. LOTR was bublished in 1955, but work on the Legendarium never ended. When Tolkien died he left a huge pile of notes, letters and unfinished works. His son Christopher collected them, sorted them and gave them structure. The Simarillion is the main work that came out of this. It deals with the very long history of the world in which the LOTR and the Hobbit are only one part. There are other books like The unfinished Tales or The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (poems). If you were to try and get to know the world in the perfect order youd read the Hobbit first (short and easy), continue to LOTR and afterwards study the Simarillion. Study would be what youd doing because its more like a collection of essays and shorter tales, like a history book, not a classic novel structure. The modern movies, all six, change some things. Add some, leave some out. The change of medium from book to film makes some decissions smart and even unavoidable but some are considered unneeded. For example the LOTR movies leave out one part in the start that is great for world building but unrelated to the main story. As the movie is long allready and could be confusing for new viewers allready that might be good. But the Hobbit is bloated all together, as it should, compared by story-to-tell, should be 25% or less compared to LOTR, yet it has the same lenght in the movie. Ok, maybe others can correct me and add some details.

leonie

I really enjoyed the Hobbit trilogy. And in some ways I even enjoy these movies more than the LOTR movies, solely because I hated or rather disliked the scenes of Frodo and sam. I love these characters, but I personally found their scenes boring in comparison to the scenes we had with Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas and all the other characters. In the hobbit movies I didnt have such a feeling, I was so invested in every minute. Nonetheless I enjoy the LOTR movies as much as The Hobbit movies. They are both fantastic trilogies, and the next Hobbit movies are going to be so much better. I personally liked the third movie of the hobbit trilogy the most.

Emily Rose

We NEED a Interstellar reaction from the boyz!

Alexander P

awesome stuff boys loved watching along the LOTR aswell hope you do the next one sometime soon but no rush

GrymmWarr

To be very very honest lol the books actually have SO MUCH SINGING. LOTR actually had so many songs, and actually it took them multiple MULTIPLE chapters to even decide to leave the shire lol. I can’t remember if the hobbit book was that much singing but Lord of the rings was riddled with songs

Project Senpai

There will be a very slight delay on the next one, as we've had to deal with illness and loss last week, but we're back strong now.