'The Hobbit' Is Making Room for Some 'Lord of the Rings' Characters

[anam_moon]

"Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson's long-awaited film(s) of "The Hobbit" -- it'll be broken up into two movies -- will finally start shooting in February, which means he needs to nail down his cast for this adaptation of the J.R.R. Tolkien book that preceded "Rings." And this week it was announced that two big stars from the "Rings" trilogy were set to reprise their elven roles in "The Hobbit": Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom. That seemed like good news, but then we realized something: Their characters aren't even in Tolkien's book. So why are they going to be in the movie?

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[jackkansas.livejournal.com]

Or it might mean that Jackson has no real understanding of the LotR. The guy who omitted Tom Bombadil ... omitted the Barrow Downs ... omitted the entire "Scouring of the Shire" ... has Gimli the Dwarf say "Toss me!" at the Battle of Helm's Deep ... this is not a man who's going to let the literal text circumscribe his artistic genius and quest for profit. Just another post-Xena-Warrior-Princess anachronism gone wild.

I never actually cared for the book. I will certainly not spring for the movie.

[anam-moon.livejournal.com]

I would have really enjoyed seeing Tom Bombadil depicted in the film, but I can kind of understand how that part would get left out for editing purposes. I was hoping that it would be part of the bonus footage available on the DVD.