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12/22/2011 06:31:55 PM · #1

Who is excited?!? I can't believe it's a whole year away (and then only HALF the book!)

The Hobbit Trailer

hihosilver

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12/22/2011 06:34:29 PM · #2

ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!

::beams::

Melethia

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12/22/2011 06:39:58 PM · #3

REASON TO LIVE FOR TWO MORE YEARS!!!!!!!!!!

Bear_Music

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12/22/2011 06:42:31 PM · #4

Oh, I'm thrilled right out of my skivvies! One of my favorite books of all time :-) Way back in the day, they called me "Gandalf"... This would have been 1966-70, thereabouts... Gawd, it's so long ago...

R.

Tommy_Mac

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12/22/2011 06:49:37 PM · #5

hell yeah!

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12/22/2011 07:13:55 PM · #6

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Way back in your day Robert JRR hadn't written it yet. :P

Kelli

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12/22/2011 07:41:04 PM · #7

Yay!

cowboy221977

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12/22/2011 08:11:27 PM · #8

I am definitely looking forward to it

Mike

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12/22/2011 08:33:30 PM · #9

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

i may have to read it, but i disliked LOTR books so much i never gave it a chance. I love the movie (and yes of course the story) but i just couldn't stand the way the books were written.

Message edited by author 2011-12-22 20:33:43.

littlemav

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12/22/2011 08:48:21 PM · #10

Is that the SAME Gandalf ?? looks and sounds like him but he'd have to be like a million years old right???? ohhh all atwitterlated!!!

Melethia

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12/22/2011 11:25:17 PM · #11

Yep, same Gandalf. Bless his heart.

robs

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12/22/2011 11:59:11 PM · #12

The Hobbit is one of two books I read in school (and I went thru when books were the thing for english) and actually loved... the rest part from it (and one flew over the cuckoos nest) were crap..... Hopefully will be the only prequel that I will actually like.

Been looking forward to Jackson doing this one for years... so I hope it's great (I heard he did a lot at 60fps for whatever reason).... Why do you say 1/2.... they doing 2 movies??

Bear_Music

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12/23/2011 12:09:34 AM · #13

Originally posted by mike_311:

i may have to read it, but i disliked LOTR books so much i never gave it a chance. I love the movie (and yes of course the story) but i just couldn't stand the way the books were written.

"The Hobbit" is, by far, the best-written of the books.

R.

robs

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12/23/2011 12:25:59 AM · #14

Originally posted by mike_311:

i may have to read it, but i disliked LOTR books so much i never gave it a chance. I love the movie (and yes of course the story) but i just couldn't stand the way the books were written.

Yeah, it's a great book and well worth a read even if you struggled with lotr (which to be fair wandered thru so many distractions it's easy to lose the plot). The Hobbit is far tighter and an easier read, but there is a bit of what you might not like from lotr.

12/23/2011 01:02:20 AM · #15

Originally posted by robs:

Yes. It is split into two movies released a year apart.

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12/23/2011 01:19:10 AM · #16

I've been reading it to my kids the last few weeks. Slow going, but they ask for more every day.

Pug-H

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12/23/2011 01:30:01 AM · #17

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by mike_311:
i may have to read it, but i disliked LOTR books so much i never gave it a chance. I love the movie (and yes of course the story) but i just couldn't stand the way the books were written.

"The Hobbit" is, by far, the best-written of the books.

R.

You might say that LOTR is over-written.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

12/23/2011 02:28:29 AM · #18

Originally posted by bspurgeon:

I've been reading it to my kids the last few weeks. Slow going, but they ask for more every day.

That is awesome. :-)

12/23/2011 11:14:12 AM · #19

Originally posted by bspurgeon:

I've been reading it to my kids the last few weeks. Slow going, but they ask for more every day.

I read it to my kids a few years ago and they enjoyed it immensely. Started a tradition of reading out loud. We've done Treasure Island, City of Ember, Among the Hidden, and one or two of the Harry Potters. I've tried to hit classics and would like to do Wind in the Willows or Gulliver's Travels.

Message edited by author 2011-12-23 11:15:16.

12/23/2011 11:27:40 AM · #20

Have you read them any Twain yet? I started Huck Finn but some words and interactions seemed a bit too much for their ages, 7 and 5, closer to 8 and 6. Call of the Wild is next. The cover got their interest, lucky me, as it is a favorite of mine. Haven't done Potter yet.

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12/23/2011 11:40:09 AM · #21

Originally posted by bspurgeon:

Ooh, Call of the Wild is a good one. My kids are 11 and 8 so a little bit older. Some of the classics, being 200 years old, have language you have to wade through. Treasure Island was filled with sailing terms that befuddled nearly everybody (I was only saved by having read Moby Dick the year before) and we'd eventually laugh about it. Somehow the term "coracle" (a small boat) now produces hearty chuckles in our household.

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hihosilver

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12/23/2011 11:45:52 AM · #22

Has anyone learned to write Elvish? I always wanted to do that...;-)

As the first novel I ever read, The Hobbit rests in a cherished space in my heart.

On my shelf, I still have that same copy of the book...rather dog-eared and worn now, but still one of my best friends.

Message edited by author 2011-12-23 11:51:37.

12/23/2011 11:58:27 AM · #23

Originally posted by hihosilver:

Which one is it? I still have the one I read as a kid which is the edition with the yellow cover with Gandalf and Bilbo in the Eagle's Nest. For the kids I bought the nice hardback illustrated edition with illustrations by Alan Lee. It's beautiful.

12/23/2011 12:45:43 PM · #24

I still have this one in our bookcase, along with the LOTR versions. Belonged to my Dad. The one I first read, when I was 11, was a small, white paperback. Don't recall the cover.