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Sir Peter is being his usual loveable, mischievous self again and posting things like the video (see link above) featuring Evangeline, Orlando and Lee in costume reacting with great merriment to watching a video of two excited fans reacting to . . . watching a vid. It’s delightful! Lots of great cheekbones and smile to enjoy here, too. 😉 Thanks, Sir Peter and the gang.
A GIF of a tense scene between Thranduil (Lee Pace) and Thorin (Richard Armitage). I don’t like when peeps get in my Thorin’s face. Even when it is that cutie, Lee Pace. GIF by Escudo de Roble.
OK, I didn’t get to see the entire event today due to some serious buffering issues. However, thanks to friends and Tolkien geeks out there on the Net, I have seen what is my favorite part: at the very end, Thorin and his company, assembled in a group, with Thorin declaring, “We are the dwarves of Erebor, and we have come to reclaim our homeland!” And you don’t doubt he means every word of it, either. I mean, just take at look at the expression on his face in the screencap above (courtesy of MorrighansMuse at Twitter). That, ladies and gents, is one bad-ass dwarf.
I do have a clip of the last several minutes of the event (not sure how long it will be around, so peruse it while you can) courtesy of Daily Motion and Bleedingcool.com, which includes that final scene and some other footage including a spooky scene with Gandalf, and a lot of green screen stuff (apparently there is no completed trailer yet). You will catch some additional glimpses of the lovely Thorin.
First Scene From The Hobbit: The Desolation Of… by dm_514f5e7f66d4c
There’s also some interesting blog comments made by Brendon Connell at Bleeding Cool during the live event which help fill in some of the gaps for me.
A couple of thoughts: I think everyone felt the many retakes with Martin in the boat scene were a bit much. Agree with Servetus PJ failed to get his point across about shooting from different perspectives. Also surprised they didn’t use more fan questions rather than using actor questions. You know that plenty of people had to have submitted questions . . . and I agree with Servetus, that Jed Brophy really is a cutie when you ditch the starfish hairdon’t.
All in all, it seems to have gone pretty well– much better, certainly, than the Twitter debacle. What did those of you who did get the see the whole thing (or a portion of it) think? Fantabulous, “meh” or somewhere in-between?
(Here’s the link to the blog comments)
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/24/the-hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-preview-footage-details-and-live-blog/
And here are some GIFS of Thorin and his men courtesy of Morrighansmuse at Tumblr. They capture what was REALLY important in the whole thing to me, I’d say. 😉
the armitage effect 