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THE HOBBIT Spoiler In Lego Set; Possible Running Time Revealed

Details revealed in the "Escape From Mirkwood" Lego set from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey suggest that Peter Jackson has made a few alterations to how those scenes play out in the novel. Plus, we have a possible run-time for the movie too..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 10/7/2012
Anyone who has read J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit will surely remember one of most exciting moments - Bilbo and the Dwarves' capture and escape from giant spiders in Mirkwood. But judging by the images depicted on the packaging for the Escape From Mirkwood Lego set, we will see things play out a little (or a lot if you are a purist) differently. You can clearly see both Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) minifigs rushing in to rescue Bilbo and company in the below image..



This would also seem to confirm that Legolas and Tauriel will be making an appearance in the first film, and not kept until the second as we previously thought. Also, according to the ever reliable Jonas Jakobsen, various cinema outlets in Norway are reporting that the running time for the first installment in the Hobbit trilogy will be 2 hours 44 minutes. It seems Peter Jackson's decision to stretch the story out to three movies didn't impact the length of each individual one anyway - unless of course the follow ups have shorter run-times, but that's very unlikely. Anyway, this hasn't been officially confirmed yet, but I'd say it's on the money.







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deadpool123 - 10/7/2012, 8:00 AM
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Maximus101 - 10/7/2012, 8:04 AM
Everyone that complained about TDKR runtime hold be complaining about this one too lol
Christuffer - 10/7/2012, 8:05 AM
@deadpool123 - Seriously? Really?

If you think about it, 2.44 can go by really quickly. It's all about how you tell the story
JamesClement - 10/7/2012, 8:14 AM
Fecking hell that's a long movie.
thatdylhooper - 10/7/2012, 8:17 AM
Sixth!!!!
SKetCH - 10/7/2012, 8:22 AM
Zoom in on the box, the names for those figures look nothin' like the names you speak of.
RorMachine - 10/7/2012, 8:23 AM
They say "Tauriel" and "Legolas Greenleaf"
MisterMagurlypse - 10/7/2012, 8:34 AM
So, we're probably looking at seven and a half to eight hours in total to tell the Hobbit story?
Sounds good to me!
Nomis1800 - 10/7/2012, 8:35 AM
Yes yes! I want this to end with the barrels not the eagles!!!!!!
Godzillafart - 10/7/2012, 8:36 AM
Maybe with chemotherapy they could kill all the stupid parts of Peter Jackson while retaining the good parts.
Gus - 10/7/2012, 8:47 AM
I hope that doesn't count the extreme long shots as they walk over mountain tops in a line. That's my favourite part!
marvel72 - 10/7/2012, 8:53 AM
f*ckin 2 hours 45 minutes,i thought it would of been shorter as it has been split into three movies.

it was bad enough sitting through the dark knight rises & now i've got to do it again,if i want to see this.

i'll have to think about it.
LucasMend - 10/7/2012, 9:04 AM
Ahh, Gandalf was not in Mirkwood, lol. And wtf, the dwarves and bilbo were the only ones in that scene, why adding more people?
Originator2000 - 10/7/2012, 9:04 AM
The IMAX time restraint allows the maximum time for a movie to be 2h 45m. I'm not surprised.
Gus - 10/7/2012, 9:15 AM
I'm curious to see how this scene will play out in the porn parody. I guess we'll all have to wait and see!
StarkAnthony - 10/7/2012, 9:42 AM
It is important to the story and character that Bilbo rescues the Dwarves himself from the spiders. I guess I don't mind too much if some elves help a little, but it really should be Bilbo on his own. This was a really big moment for Bilbo in the book, one of his most heroic.
SpideyQuad - 10/7/2012, 9:50 AM
Um... Gandalf was not present with the group in Mirkwood
SpideyQuad - 10/7/2012, 9:54 AM
Simple minds=short attention spans
ckal - 10/7/2012, 10:03 AM
Uhh I wonder if Jackson is changing it so the dwarves are saved by legolas and tauriel instead of bilbo.
TheRaven20 - 10/7/2012, 10:03 AM
Damn I knew this was going to happen. What's so unbelievable about Bilbo fighting them off on his own!?! He has the ring, he's fricking invisible! Besides the elves are suppose to capture the dwarves, not help them so stupid...
RorMachine - 10/7/2012, 10:05 AM
Right, Gandalf wasn't there..I haven't read the book in 20 years!

Anyway, weren't all of the original trilogy even longer? Who cares, love long movies..once they warrant it.
mctrinket - 10/7/2012, 10:10 AM
2 hours 44 minutes for the first part or a three part movie--The Hobbit is only a fraction the size of The Lord of The Rings but the movie adaption is going to be the same if not longer? That's quackers!
DWiz - 10/7/2012, 10:35 AM
Footage from SDCC showed Legolas coming out of the woods while the dwarves were trying to get out of the woods and pointing his bow at them and demanding who they were, so I'm thinking they just included the spider to make the lego set cooler and that Legolas, Tauriel, and the other elves indeed show up after Bilbo drives off the spiders a la the book.
Sparrowsabre7 - 10/7/2012, 11:01 AM
FYI the Avengers lego sets featured Iron Man in the scene with Loki on the truck, so there's no guarantee that this will be in the movie, it might just be for product purposes and to make a better set.
gaikinger - 10/7/2012, 11:09 AM
Godzillafart=massive troll
TheRaven20 - 10/7/2012, 11:51 AM
I you're right Dwiz.
Equivocal - 10/7/2012, 12:00 PM
@Maximus

when I first heard of LOTR lenght time, I was like wtf ???? and then I watched it and I was like: W-O-W !!!!!!!

when I saw the trailer for tdkr and had "masterpiece" plasted all over I was like 'damn' !!!!
then I watched it and I was like wtf ????? Zzzzzzzzz then uurrgghhh
and I said to myself: "that's one long boring movie"
Masterpiece ??????
*rolls eyes*
it had its moments but NOTHING close to a "masterpiece"
Now, about the running time of The Hobbit; until I see I will decide...
btw, on a cloudy & rainy day I watched LOTR the complete trilogy, I didn't get bored and that's one trilogy that anybody can say: that's a Masterpiece !
Facade - 10/7/2012, 12:33 PM
I've read and re-read Tolkien for over 30 yrs. I don't give a [frick] what hater trolls say about PJ's Hobbit/LOTR because his interpretations are great! They aren't perfect (and FYI, neither are the books). So what else do we have to compare PJ to? Rankin & Bass and Bakshi fell far from perfect interpretations.
Facade - 10/7/2012, 12:36 PM
@LucasMend...Gandalf WAS in Mirkwood: Dol Guldur.
marvel72 - 10/7/2012, 1:36 PM
i don't mind long running times if i'm in the comfort of my own home,theatre seats for someone who's 6ft 3" & 16 stone(224 Ilbs)they ain't the most comfortable of seats for 3+ hours.
hope420 - 10/7/2012, 1:54 PM
If the rerelease of the extended version is true then I'm not wasting my time or money on the first release ill wait for the extended release and see the full movie.
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 10/7/2012, 2:14 PM
Why do people always complain if a movie is long? Small attention span?
CBMM1 - 10/7/2012, 2:34 PM
Sorry to have to have to point this out to you Ror but your article is pretty much wrong about the whole spoiler thing. If you had scrolled through the source photostream a bit mor you would have found the following picture.


Notice the Red Banner that states The Hobbit Trilogy Preview Set! This means that this set along with the barrels set is not technically part of the wave of sets based on "THE UNEXPECTED JOURNEY". It was more than likely created when the plan was to only make two movies and not three. When it was decided that it would be three movies, the scenes these sets depict were moved to the second movie.
Because of the fact that the sets were already in production and the scenes shown don't really pose any spoilers, they are producing the sets as "previews" for the next movie. Also, you can't really count the small deatails in these LEGO sets sometimes (like
Legolas and Tauriel rushing in to rescue Bilbo and company). I mean come on these are the same people that gave Captain America a motorcycle and hawkeye a jet in
The Avengers sets.
Kyos - 10/7/2012, 2:37 PM
Long movies make me happy, as long as they have a reason to be long.

3 movie long The Hobbit messing with the story does not make me happy.
Bodwulf - 10/7/2012, 2:39 PM
"Rushing to the rescue of Bilbo" I do not see Bilbo offered in this set.
Fogs - 10/7/2012, 2:45 PM
In PJ I trust.
SymbioteSpidey1 - 10/7/2012, 3:01 PM
I don't even remember Legolas and Tauriel being in the book. In fact I don't remember anyone except for Bilbo, Gandalf, Golem, and Elrond(not even completely sure he was in it) from LOTR being in The Hobbit.

This was the version i read:
http://www.christianbook.com/hobbit-there-back-again-illustrated-peter/j-r-r-tolkien/9780618150823/pd/50822?en=google-pla&kw=fiction-0-20&p=1167941&gclid=CIXdx53z77ICFcid4AoddiwAcw


Also found a book coming out in October called "Bilbo's Last Song" apparently an epilogue from when he left for the Undying Lands at the end of LOTR. Don't know if came out before and I just didn't know about it, but it sounds interesting.
Moakynubs - 10/7/2012, 3:21 PM
Is it possible to spoil a movie based on a book that has been out for ...HOW many years?
TheSoulEater - 10/7/2012, 6:26 PM
She's the sexy ginger elf that savest he dwarves from the spiders

YES!!!!
Wulfenmarc - 10/7/2012, 9:06 PM
If Legolas and Tauriel are in the first movie..well around chicago its been known for a week since toys r us put out the action figures for the movies and those two are part of the assortments so....
Brady1138 - 10/7/2012, 9:28 PM
Honestly, even though I have read, and loved, all the books, I'm really liking the changes they're making to the story. I really like how they're tying this into Lord of the Rings. In fact, Tolkien was going to re-write The Hobbit to tie in closer to Lord of the Rings and the rest of Middle-Eart, but his friends and family (tragically, if you ask me) talked him out of it. In this way, Jackson is almost fulfilling Tolkien's wishes.
bropous - 10/8/2012, 9:36 AM
Jackson first raped Frodo of his own heroism at the Fords of Bruinen with the use of Xena, Elf-Warrior. Now he will denude Bilbo of that hobbitlike quality of courage in the face of irresistable odds with Legolas and his bitch swooping in to save Frodo and Company from the spiders.

REBOOT!!!!!
Fogs - 10/8/2012, 10:58 AM
@bropous - glorfindel. not xena, but a super-elf.
squirt - 10/8/2012, 7:26 PM
Early speculation from a lego set or all things. Probably the ones who capture Thorins company ,minus Thorin of course, are the wood elves led by Legolas and Tauriel.
comicb00kguy - 10/9/2012, 6:29 AM
I'll wait until we see some actual film clips showing more of Mirkwood before commenting on this aspect of the film. It wouldn't surprise me- Jackson changed up plenty of things in LOTR, especially the second and third films.

As to the running time, three hours or more for each of the LOTR books was quite reasonable. There was a LOT of story going on there, and at least that long was needed to tell the story. Now nearly nine hours to tell the story of The Hobbit? ONE book, not three? I've got a feeling we're going to see some serious padding going on here. Let's see how it plays out in the theater. Only a couple of months now till we find out.

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