Without speaking a single syllable in that deep chocolate voice of his, Guy can express so much through smiles, smirks, sniffs, scowls, disdainful rolling of the eyes . . . and that long, lean and muscular body encased in buttery soft black leather–or wearing nothing but a few pieces of armor and his medieval undies–speaks volumes, too.
Daily Archives: October 4, 2012
More Thorin GIFs
Thorin Thursday: Action Thorin!
Passion, Pride, Attitude: A media blogger’s view of RA as Thorin
Nadia pointed out a blog post at (A) musings last night that provides a blow-by-blow review, written by Kyle Pedley, of the latest Hobbit trailer. Pedley loves all things Tolkien and Peter Jackson, and was such a huge fan of the LoTR trilogy he was invited to the premiere of the final film by the UK distributors.
Here is the link to the entire article, which is quite lengthy but also quite interesting.
http://wtfoosh.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/test-article.html
He made a lot of nice observations about Mr. Armitage, too. Mr. Pedley, we like you. 😀
I have extracted comments specific to Richard and his performance as Thorin Oakenshield. The underlining and highlighting are my additions.
(This passage references Thorin meeting Bilbo for the first time at Bag’s End)
In regards to Richard Armitage’s performance, he seems to
have nailed the regal pride of Thorin perfectly, and you can genuinely sense he
is not entirely convinced by the individual stood before him, almost bemused by
Bilbo. The doubt of Thorin and the dwarves is mentioned and touched upon in the
book but in the same light tone as much of the proceedings – it seems Jackson,
Walsh and the team are going to naturally take this a little further and, given
the arc Bilbo and Thorin go on together, this is entirely understandable and
will make for much more dramatic, involving and satisfying cinema
(Thorin delivering his rousing speech to the company around the table)