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Early Details For The World Premiere Of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The first part of Peter Jackson's much anticipated LOTR prequel may be over a year away, but we now have some info on when An Unexpected Journey will have its world premiere...

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By Paul Romano - 10/28/2011


According to The One Ring, Peter Jackson's much anticipated film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, will have its world premiere in late November of 2012 in Wellington, New Zealand (which was the same place where the last Lord Of The Rings film, Return Of The King, had its world premiere). New Zealand news site 3 News has a video showing Jackson's announcing the details on the world premiere with NZ Prime Minister John Key, but since there isn't any embed code for right now, click here to watch the eleven minute video.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is set to premiere in Wellington in late November 2012, director Sir Peter Jackson and Prime Minister John Key announced today at the Hobbiton set in Waikato. Wellington previously hosted the world premiere of the final Lord of the Rings movie, Return of the King, in December 2003.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters December 14th, 2012, while the second part There & Back Again hits theaters December 13th the following year.
Source: The One Ring
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ThatFan - 10/28/2011, 12:36 PM
what about a trailer!
Fogs - 10/28/2011, 12:41 PM
@Intruder - as long as they do a single story for each movie... I'm in. Like fall of Gondolin, sons of Húrin, Deren and Lúthien, War of Wrath, fall of Númenor and so on.

I'm just scared of the idea when I think some idiot could want to make the WHOLE silmarillion as a simple trilogy.

It would require at least 9 movies of 3hr each.
Fogs - 10/28/2011, 12:43 PM
BTW the video you posted reminds me I need to watch it again. The Braveheart theme went so well in it :)
Fogs - 10/28/2011, 12:43 PM
watch = read

duh!
PaulRom - 10/28/2011, 12:45 PM
@ThatFan I've heard things about a trailer being attached to Tintin later this year, I doubt it but you never know.
BmanHall - 10/28/2011, 1:13 PM
This is, by far, my most anticipated movie to date.

CANNOT...

[frick]ING...

WAIT...
P90 - 10/28/2011, 1:25 PM
I dont think a Silmarillion movie or movies would be that good. I read the book for the first time over the summer and while it is interesting as a background to Hobbit/LOTR, it reads like a Bible and I felt little to no connection to any of the characters. Hell the only character I felt ANYTHING towards was Morgoth. He was the only really fleshed out character besides maybe Turin Turambar.
marvel72 - 10/28/2011, 1:33 PM
this is the non comic book movie i'm most looking forward to next year.
Fogs - 10/28/2011, 1:52 PM
P90, I think it's important to explain what exactly is the Silmarillion and why it's not so deep: it is basically the outline of the work Tolkien wanted to create in detail during his life.

He began writing these stories during WWI, and those were from the 1st age. Unfortunately he never had much time to write since he was a teacher in oxford and had a difficult life.

One day he wrote a small book for his son, and that became the Hobbit. It was almost accidentally published because a editor gave the book to his son to read and he loved it. Then the Hobbit was a success.

In the 50's the LoTR was released but it wasn't what Tolkien wanted to write at first, he really wanted to publish his big story, those from the Silmarillion. But The editor wanted more hobbit stories. That's why LoTR begins the way it is, similar to the Hobbit.

The thing at this point was derived from a problem Tolkien knew he had but couldn't stop being like that: he never finished the book because he attained to small details of the story and spent many years re-writing and correcting LoTR.

When he had time he wrote in detail some of the Silmarillion stories, but never in the amount he wanted.

In the end he died in the beginning of the 70's and left much to be done. His son Christopher took his basic wtitings, (tried to) put them in order for publishing and even had to write some parts so the Silmarillion would have some cohesion. It's the version we know.

Some of the detailed texts were published in a 12-volume series called "The History of Middle-Earth", and Christopher said there are more unreleased material from his father.

I really recommend you to read some of these texts from this series (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_History_of_Middle-earth) and you'll probably find the depth you look for. For example "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" ("The Debate of Finrod and Andreth"). It's sick.

Sorry about the long post. Got a little carried out.
Fogs - 10/28/2011, 1:53 PM
BTW, if you read "Letters of JRR Tolkien" you'll know more of his background.
Fogs - 10/28/2011, 2:14 PM
Truder - I agree so much, but I also understand when someone says they don't see it this way, from the perspective of other novels. It's a loooong story in about 300 pages.
P90 - 10/28/2011, 2:31 PM
I am not reading that text wall but I never said it wasn't a good read because it is. I dont think it would make a good movie though. It moves from character to character/place to place/time to time etc far to often for an audience to get attached to anyone or anything.
Fogs - 10/28/2011, 2:34 PM
LOL, ok then...
bropous - 10/28/2011, 2:48 PM
Not a lot of hopes for Teh Hobbit, parts one and two. Jackson has shown too great a desire to change essential aspects of the source material for my liking.

The Silmarillion has a LOT of sections that would make for great films. However, I hope Jackson never gets his hands on the book, because it would end up unrecognizable. Probably some dwarf female warrior wizard leading the refugees out of Gondolin then riding a golden dragon to battle Ancalagon the Black.

Jackson produces facsimiles. TOO much of his own ideas, not enough of Professor Tolkien's.
headlopper - 10/28/2011, 6:29 PM
Never read the books. Just own the cartoon.
But based upon your threads, there seems to be much more to the story.
Anyhow, 'The Hobbit' will be great films.
bropous - 10/28/2011, 7:44 PM
Intruder: I received the LP "J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion" when I was a kid back in 1977. Part of that is the excerpt you have above.

My favorite line: Tolkien whispers: "Huon is THERE!"

Anyone who says the Silmarillion sucks just does not have the intellect to comprehend it. Probably some bozo who gave up with the Song of Anu in the first chapter.

The story of the Elves and the Silmarils is the most engrossing of Tolkien's works. Morgoth, who was Suaron's BOSS til the Valar kicked his ever-hatin' ass and Anu threw him outside of Time, Feanor and his sons, Fingon, Fingolfin, the Glorfindel who held off a TROOP of Balrogs all by his lonesome at the fall of Gondolin, the betrayals, the heartbreak, the wars, the false victories, all of it is of such incredible depth that an obvious moron like fats above couldn't possibly wrap his three remaining brain cells around it.

headlopper: Only ONE Hobbit book. Tolkien wrote it as a children's story for his kids. When Christopher was in the RAAF in South Africa during World War 2, Tolkien wrote portions of the LotR and Silmarillion in letters to his son to keep his spirits up.

Also, some of you may not know this, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were drinking buddies down the local. Tolkien thought Lewis' Narnia puerile and a derivative mishmash.

Tolkien, a professor of languages, actually created nine new languages in his writings, all linguistically defensible as new languages.

Probably THE greatest literature of the twentieth century based on scholarship alone.

And Peter Jackson has the nerve to change elements of the story? BULLSHIT!
bropous - 10/28/2011, 7:48 PM
Okay, I should read someone's actual post before glomming on to someone else's comment about them. No, fats, you're not a retard. Anyone who references the Kalevala isn't too dumb to stretch their mind around the Silmarillion. In fact, Tolkien used the Kalevala and the Norse sagas in part as sources for his own books, a "mythology he created for England."

And, of course, you can find parallels to Lemminkainen and the Sampo in LotR as well as The Silmarillion. I really don't get your animus to the book. It tells an incredible tale of grief and heartbreak that fills in the background for the LotR beautifully.
bropous - 10/29/2011, 7:39 AM
Room for appreciating the old sagas AND Tolkien in the world. Fats, kinda fatuous saying that Tolkien's works, especially LotR, are not high literature. What, Toni Morrison IS? LOL!

I'm also seen as apostate since I don't cream all over myself for Jackson's subversions on the silver screen. But I don't think Intruder is a lonely little man.

GHowever, a photo of yourself playing with your snothole IS an indication of monastic sex life....

;- )
Scorpioxfactor - 6/13/2012, 9:24 PM
Silmarillion, Totally Rules. I love the book. It's great. It really helps one understand Lord of the Rings even more. But, My Favorite of the whole Book is Feanor. I love him. His saga alone is one movie. (well the whole 1st Age could be a trilogy) Supposedly there is one of his sons still alive wandering around Middle Earth. Do you when Tolkien Died? 3 Rings for the elves high in light, 7 for the dwarves in their halls made of stone, 9 to the Nazgul and 1 ring to rule them all...........1973.

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