The Hobbit is finally greenlit!

[pip]

Very True. Even the trees looked like Gimli

 

[DaveC]

Very True. Even the trees looked like Gimli

Even sounded like Gimli,

 

[fids]

caber tossing

 

[DaveC]

Oin and Gloin! Gimli's pop. A bit more traditional this time.

I'm at work at the moment so can't paste the picture, will do i later unless someone fancies doing it for me just this once...

http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/movie-stills/gallery/3491/#photo0

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

My gods doesn't Peter Hambledon look like John Rhys-Davies?

And doesn't Oin look like a dead (literally) ringer for Hugh Griffith?

 

[DaveC]

Thanks Jan

The band look great so far, 5 down 8 to go. I trust you've seen Bilbo and Gandalf already? If not check out this months Empire. Or scour their website.

BTW, who's Hugh Griffith? That's not the old Antiques Roadshow guy is it?

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Thanks for making me feel really old!

Hugh Emrys Griffith was one of the grand old English actors like Michael Hordern who was in just about every great brit film and TV series going in the 50's to the 80's. He was in Ben Hur as the owner of the chariot horses (Aldebaran, Altaïr, Antares and Rigel ) that Ben raced and got an oscar for that role and he was Albert Finney's potential dad-in-law in Tom Jones. One of his last roles was as the Vogon captain who chucked Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect off his ship after demolishing the Earth in H2G2 the classic TV series but he didn't look much like Oin in that, being green...

 

[DaveC]

Don't think I have seen him then. Not seen Ben Hur all the way through, last time I tried my tape but out half way through. I have only seen the Hitchhikers film with Bilbo, not the series. Sorry for making you feel old...

 

[DaveC]

You ladies are going to love Kili and Fili, the youngest dwarveS? Someone paste the pic. http://social.entertainment.msn.com...spx?feat=2001455c-fe15-47c0-9c93-321e454c7f80

 

[DaveC]

Done:

Dean O'Gorman as Fili and Aidan (Being Human) Turner as Kili in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"

Two of the youngest Dwarves, Fili and Kili have been born into the royal line of Durin and raised under the stern guardianship of their uncle, Thorin Oakensheild. Neither has ever travelled far, nor ever seen the fabled Dwarf City of Erebor. For both, the journey to the Lonely Mountain represents adventure and excitement. Skilled fighters, both brothers set off on their adventure armed with the invincible courage of youth, neither being able to imagine the fate which lies before them.

 

[Doughnut Jimmy]

And the one on the left gets the prize for cheesiest grin!

 

[DaveC]

Bifur, Bombur and Bofur

http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/118/1181874p1.html

Going to bed now, anyone want to paste the pic. If not I'll do it in the morning.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

We can take turns

The site was playing up so a bit smaller than the others That's James Nesbitt in the middle!

Make a change for him not to be towering over the other cast members :twisted:

 

[DaveC]

So many different styles so far! Only three to go: Dwalin Balin and Thorin, are they saving the most badass for last

This is an amazing display of hats and beards!

 

[meerkat]

I didn;t realise that was James Nesbitt til you said and then I saw it and thought, I'm a twit, course it is!

They look good, but no dwarf bread or throwing scones etc.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Dwarf bread's called kram in ME

 

[meerkat]

IS it as good a T 'bread with T'edge?

 

[Tonyblack]

Dwarf bread's called kram in ME

I always thought that Terry was poking fun at the Elvish bread from LOTR when he invented Dwarf bread.

 

[Jan Van Quirm]

Nope - they had their own variety that's all. Dwarf bread lasted as long as Lembas (the Elf bread made from the wheat brought over from the Undying Lands by the Naughty Noldor when they rebelled) but wasn't as nice - very, very hard in fact and so it was great to take travelling with you to encourage you to live off the land unless you were really desparate... :twisted:

I think in the Trilogy Gimli makes an aside (to Legolas or Aragorn) about it being hard as iron and useful for braining orcs Terry knows ME very well indeed

 

[Tonyblack]

He knows YOU?