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Post by Scott on Oct 23, 2014 16:35:48 GMT -5
I have the theatrical blu ray, but I'll probably end up with the Sucker Edition too.
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Post by geneweigel on Oct 23, 2014 17:08:07 GMT -5
Heh, yeah, maybe it is Peter Jackson.
As an aside, I'm getting a vibe from this Jackson stuff. I'm pretty certain that the main drive behind the unHobbiting of THE HOBBIT has to do with Peter Jackson's personal eating problems.
Perhaps he had projected his overeating habits onto the hobbit and dwarf races, prior to making the films, as the LOTR trilogy progressed and his eventual obvious stomach stapling, it seems that he doesn't want to go to food for food's sake except perhaps as a dwarven evil trait.
This would explain the "gastric bypass" of Bombadil's gluten-lactose-laden overeating fest as final nail in the coffin to shun Tom from the films too.
In the books, the fact that Merry apologizes to Gimli for not having green stuff and not to Legolas, who as we noticed (now that it has been brought to our attention) is more venison-filled than Ted Nugent from the descriptions in THE HOBBIT, is the thing that Jackson majorly overlooks in his version of "meat falling off the bone" dwarves and "where's the meat?" elves.
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Post by geneweigel on Jan 5, 2015 13:22:40 GMT -5
Rereading my last comment about the Jackson avoidance of food was pretty clear when Thorin's last words didn't ring true as it should have about the Hobbit lifestyle and the namesake of the story. My guess is he busted a stomach staple filming the first installment's dwarf dinner.
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Post by geneweigel on Jan 10, 2015 18:31:34 GMT -5
I forgot to mention as for the "Fourth Age Gazetteer" (or whatever its going to come out as... GENE WEIGEL"S MIDDLE EARTH-A-GO-GO" ), I got a little sidetracked and logjammed with the Deities and Demigods but its slowly congealing.
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Post by Scott on Jan 10, 2015 19:37:18 GMT -5
How'd you handle the D and Ds?
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Post by geneweigel on Jan 10, 2015 20:33:09 GMT -5
I'm trying to look at it as if I'm with Tolkien and he's playing this wonderful game he's discovered. So he's trying to reapproach the world and not care so much about his fellow Christians finding fault in it and we're looking at it from the perspective of The Silmarillion as an unvarnished and small percentage of the elf world. So in regard to gods, their playability and aesthetically having no stuffiness is chief.
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Post by geneweigel on Jan 10, 2015 20:44:53 GMT -5
Plus as if the pre-printed (what he thought of as actual) version of The Silmarillion is an apology for critics and nothing to do with people like me who enjoy it for what it is as a sort of unified folklore adventure.
I'm sort of thinking he "de-euhemerized" too much so he wouldn't start a cult but its somewhat easy to undo as its all based on him taking folklore and adapting. Etc., etc.
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