Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug Trailer Has New and Old Characters

[mojopin87]

Yay more forced conflicts between characters for no reason... Also, I am a huge JRRT nerd and I don't recall Legolas having a love interest ever mentioned in any of Tolkien's works.

I have many beefs with Jackson's changes (the main one being that 99% of the time they are unnecessary and come of as cheesy amateurish attempts to create 'drama'), but the most aggravating is his need to create character conflicts that make no sense in relation to the source material.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Other than the COMPLETELY pointless appearance of Legolas and the nearly insulting appearance of Legolas-As-A-Girl, I'm damn excited.

I enjoyed the hell out of the first and I'll be seeing this say 1.

Also, I haven't read the book, but please please please let there be more singing.

 

[Xdeser2]

This looks pretty amazing honestly

Looking forward to it

 

[Brian Tams]

I don't know why, but Cumberbatch sounds A LOT like the Jack of Blades dragon from Fable: The Lost Chapters.

Or maybe that was just how I imagined Smaug's voice when I read The Hobbit in High School.

EDIT: Second time viewing the trailer. I'm displeased to see the elves aiding in the battle against the spiders. In the book it was this really great moment of Bilbo and the Dwarves finally working together in harmony to get themselves out of a sticky situation. Really disappointed by that D:

 

[CriticalMiss]

Wait, it's a trilogy now? Last I heard it was two films. I'm not entirely sure what a third installment is going to be about unless they are going to somehow make an entire movie about the battle of five armies which Bilbo never really saw. It's really off-putting to see them mangling the story so much. I imagine that Smaug won't be killed but everyone will make friends and have a song and dance about working together and tolerance. Ok that's a bit extreme, but they are shoving things in that weren't in the book.

 

[Muspelheim]

Did we really need three films? That was the main strength of The Hobbit, its relative brevity and simplicity.

Oh, well, won't complain too much. I loved the first one, I think it is my favorite of the Peter Jackson adaptations overall.

(one of the many reasons I'd be sent to the Cirith Gulag if J.R.R.T. fans ruled the world, I imagine)

Best Youtube comment...

"The Dragon talks now? Great."

It's... I don't know. Endearing, somehow.

(I hope he's as sarky as he was in the books, though.)

 

[Nikky Winchester]

You guys might enjoy this:

Spoiler

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/12/26/85546-video-asks-who-the-ell-is-tauriel/