Blue Boar regular Nick Milne analyzes the possibilities and potential difficulties in the upcoming film adaptation of The Hobbit.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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4 comments:
Are they going to use the same dude that played Bilbo in TLOTR?
Hi Melly! I don't think so. It was Sir Ian Holm, who also, ironically, played Frodo in a BBC Radio adaptation of LOTR back in the 60s. But I think he may be too old to play a character who was 60 years younger in the Hobbit than he was when he played him in LOTR.
They are going to definitely have trouble with that Ring, but the trouble was avoided in Tolkien's work by having its ominous power grow on one very gradually and showing a clear link with the wraith-blade that probably accelerated it in Frodo's case.
I agree, SC. However Tolkien did deal with the ring's corrupting effects in The Hobbit by, one, having Bilbo keep it secret and two, having him lie about how he got it. So Del Toro does have that to work with, fortunately.
The Hobbit as originally written was quite different and Tolkien had to revise key passages once to make them conform to LOTR. Editions published after LOTR contain the revisions. The Riddle Game, for one thing, originally ended amicably, with Gollum voluntarily showing Bilbo the way out, and the Ring was as it initally appeared to be: simply a ring that turned its wearer invisible and nothing more. I think the original version is available in the recently published History of the Hobbit.
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