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I just hope the Midnight showing isn't in 3D...

Quote from: Elemental_ElfI just hope the Midnight showing isn't in 3D...

I'm betting it will be.

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Quote from: Elemental_ElfI just hope the Midnight showing isn't in 3D...

I'm betting it will be.

I am going to bet against you and hope some theatre in town proves you wrong! :)

If it's only one or the other, it will probably be in 3D. As long as you live near a fair sized city, there will quite likely be both.

So, for an entirely different topic of conversation, has anybody heard anything about how they will be treating the various... uh, musical interludes of the book?  LotR had some songs too but they were cut entirely for the film.  I'm not saying that was necessarily something I missed, but I seem to remember the Hobbit had more of them, and I might be sad if I don't get to hear dwarves singing about Bilbo's plates.

On the other hand, I can't really seeing Jacksonian goblins/orcs singing "Ho, ho, my lad!"

Jackson did say that he understood that LOTR was darker than the hobbit and he plans on making that distinction by having the hobbit be a bit more cheerful. Here's hoping we get to hear dwarves singing about smashing plates and delving halls

[blockquote=Polycarp!]LotR had some songs too but they were cut entirely for the film. [/blockquote]
There were actually quite a few songs in the LOTR movies: Pippin's two songs for Denethor, Pippin/Merry's drinking song in the Prancing Pony, Aragorn's Lay of Luthien, Eowyn's lament for Theodred, and a lot of Elvish singing.  My guess is that there will be songs, but they won't always be long, and sometimes we might see only a part of them.

Edit: Aragorn also sings at his coronation, and Gollum even sings a fishing song!  They definitely cut some songs, but the important ones were there...

Quote from: Steerpike[blockquote=Polycarp!]LotR had some songs too but they were cut entirely for the film. [/blockquote]
There were actually quite a few songs in the LOTR movies: Pippin's two songs for Denethor, Pippin/Merry's drinking song in the Prancing Pony, Aragorn's Lay of Luthien, Eowyn's lament for Theodred, and a lot of Elvish singing.  My guess is that there will be songs, but they won't always be long, and sometimes we might see only a part of them.

Edit: Aragorn also sings at his coronation, and Gollum even sings a fishing song!  They definitely cut some songs, but the important ones were there...

Exactly! There was a lot of singing in the Trilogy, the songs just weren't shoved in your face like a Bollywood Musical.

EDIT: Just for fun - Gollum's Fish Song:

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Quote from: SteerpikeThere were actually quite a few songs in the LOTR movies: Pippin's two songs for Denethor, Pippin/Merry's drinking song in the Prancing Pony, Aragorn's Lay of Luthien, Eowyn's lament for Theodred, and a lot of Elvish singing.  My guess is that there will be songs, but they won't always be long, and sometimes we might see only a part of them.

Songs that only came out in the extended version don't count!  But you're right, there was some in the movie.  I don't recall whether they were in the book or not, though.

A lot of them were mixed around or taken from different bits of the book.

I'd forgotten a lot of that was from the extended cuts - I haven't seen the theatrical versions in a long time!

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I really hate it when they make the prequel after the proper epic.  I probably won't go to see it, just due to this.

The other is that I was taught music for many of the songs in the hobbit back in grade school.  SOme of my more batty teachers did a 'hobbit' play.  I played Elrond.

Heh.  My first introduction to LotR was my dad reading it to me when I was about 6 or so.  He did an extremely thick Yorkshire accent for Sam...

>>No one knows how Bloom's character will fit into the movies

What? You've never heard that Legolas is really Thorin's long lost cousin who is half-elf and half-dwarf, a dwelf? :D

Legolas was a Silvan Elf (of the Woodland Realm i.e. Mirkwood) and is the son of King Thranduil, the Elvenking, who imprisons the Dwarves for trespassing and refusing to state their intentions.  Thus it is most likely that we'll see Legolas in the hall of the Elvenking.  He will also almost certainly be present at the Battle of Five Armies.

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I really hate it when they make the prequel after the proper epic.  I probably won't go to see it, just due to this.

Its not like this is Star Wars - you already know the story, the world of LotR won't be ruined by Midi-chlorians or anything.