While we're talking about fan-posters and such for the Hobbit...

I ran across this one today, and it filled me with glee and anticipation.

While we're talking about fan-posters and such for the Hobbit...

I ran across this one today, and it filled me with glee and anticipation.

Very cool! It kind of reminds me more of a book cover than a movie poster, though...

~Riella

Woohoo, more casting announcements!!

Cate Blanchett (“Lord of The Rings” trilogy, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) will reprise her role from “Lord of The Rings” trilogy as Galadriel, the Lady of Lothlorien. Ken Stott (“Charlie Wilson’s War”, TV’s “Rebus”) will play the Dwarf Lord Balin, Sylvester McCoy (TV’s “Doctor Who”) will play the wizard Radagast the Brown and well-known Swedish actor, Mikael Persbrandt (“Everlasting Moments”, “Day and Night”) will play the shape-shifter Beorn. British actor Ryan Gage (“Outlaw”, TV’s “Doctors”) will play Drogo Baggins, with New Zealand actors Jed Brophy (“Lord of The Rings” trilogy, “District 9”) playing the role of the dwarf Nori, and William Kircher (“Out of the Blue”; TV’s “Legend of the Seeker”) rounding out the company of Thorin Oakensheild in role of the dwarf Bifur.

I'm particularly excited about Ken Stott as he voiced Trufflehunter in PC.

Yay! Cate Blanchett is coming back to Middle Earth! And it's great to hear about all of the other casting. Wait:

British actor Ryan Gage (“Outlaw”, TV’s “Doctors”) will play Drogo Baggins

Drogo? I was not expecting that, but I can't wait to find out to what extent his role will be.

Have they chosen a voice for Smaug yet? I know that Bill Nighy was under Speculative Roles a while back but has it been confirmed? I hope he gets the role.

Cool, Galadriel is back! Yay! 2) Hope they put Frodo in this one somehow, I mean his dad's in... oh cool, then it could be Reep +Smaug!! (For Bill Nighy)!

Dunno if you guys saw today or not but Orlando Bloom as Legolas has been all but confirmed to be in the movie. Makes perfect sense to me. His dad is the Elven King that captures the Dwarves in Mirkwood. He certainly would have been alive at the time.

Cool!

I heard that.
I wouldn't mind it at all, expect my mom has heard that he will have "more then a cameo" in the film. I'm not to pleased about that. :/

It's all starting to come together!

I'm not surprised. It seems that, being that the Mirkwood Elves were in Battle of Five Armies, and since Legolas certainly did plenty of fighting in LotR, I wouldn't be surprised if the filmmakers give him a role in the battle too, not merely an appearance in the forest.

A role in the battle. . . that would be okay by me, I guess

Hey, I was wondering if someone could help me figure out how to use Tolkien's index which is included at the end of ROTK? In it, you look up a name of a person, place, thing, etc. and it gives a page number for where you can find passages about them. But sometimes, after the page numbers, it will give another page number with "f"s on the end, such as "102f" or "53fff". What are those references to?

~Riella

Yep, Legolas' presence in the film makes total sense. And the fanguuurls of 'Orly' will be thrilled.

Hmm, Ithilwen. Good question. I've been trying to find a clue ... but can't. I'll ask my Tolkien journal team (some of whom are pretty much JRRT scholars) and let you know. When I use an "f" after a page number, I mean "and following", but I'm not sure what the variety of "fs" mean.

Well, a few news items of late:

Warner Bros to Distribute Hobbit Worldwide

Elijah Wood will be in ‘The Hobbit’ (and we know how!)

... Tolkien's index which is included at the end of ROTK? In it, you look up a name of a person, place, thing, etc. and it gives a page number for where you can find passages about them. But sometimes, after the page numbers, it will give another page number with "f"s on the end, such as "102f" or "53fff". What are those references to?

Yes, these are conventions for quoting pages, bible verses or other things.

f = following (in other words, the one referred to plus the next one)

ff = following plural 'from here to the end' (in the bible, usually means from here to the end of the chapter, so perhaps the same in LOTR?)

Oh yes, those notes are bringing back my university days, coracle. Except, you mentioned, Ithilwen, that sometimes the LotR Index has even 3 fs (36fff). I'm looking for an example, and don't seem to be finding one. Am I missing them somehow?

I'm rather surprised nobody has mentioned the semi-big piece of news that has surfaced.