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09-27-2009, 06:20 PM | #1 | ||
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Suggestions on Hobbit voiceovers
I rather liked the FOTR voiceover. For TH movie might they
use one for each movie, but at the end of each movie, not the beginning. I was originally thinking the first should stop as Thorin and Co. enter Mirkwood and the White Council occupy Dol Guldur, but in reading Tom Shippey's J.R.R. Tolkien he notes that the book divides itself pretty much in half Quote:
she's not in the movie she wouldn't even half to travel to do the voiceovers). As was done in the LOTR movies, you could borrow from other sections to have her say something like: Quote:
aid of Bilbo [sigh---probably riding Shadowfax] while you'd see him bidding farewell to the White Council (perhaps with Saruman giving him a dirty look no one notices). I think I'd prefer the movie to end with the Thorin & Co. voiceover. The concluding voiceover would be at the end of Part II. Unlike ROTK I think the Hobbit ending should be included in the movie. If well done, and, let's face it, PJ did some things well, including picturing the Shire, it could be a nice folding in of TH and LOTR movies with the Shire the connecting thread. In a few years you could have a five movie marathon! Btw, I thought a better, more realistic Lobelia would have been/would be the cranky woman in FOTR who disapproves of the hobbit children getting to see some fireworks. So. you're producing the movies. Beginning voiceovers, ending, or none at all?
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09-27-2009, 06:40 PM | #2 |
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Well of course we need them! "Ina hole in the ground lived a hobbit" But either Gandalf or Bilbo..... Or maybe even Elrond But I think Bilbo is best because the Red Book is written by him.
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09-27-2009, 07:40 PM | #3 |
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I have long though that Ian Holm should narrate even if he didn't play Bilbo (he won't). The BBC radio version featured Bilbo interacting with the narrator and it was quite charming. Having Bilbo narrate accounts for discrepencies with LotR: This they way Bilbo remembers it (except White Council/Dol Guldur which he didn't see), not necessarily the way it happened. Sort a "There and Back Again" + "The Hobbit" type of feel. It also makes it more personal and less epic, further differentiating it from LotR.
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09-28-2009, 05:58 AM | #4 |
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Well not an entire narration but just the beginning and end...
As for the BBC Radio Version: LOVE IT listen to it all the time... my fiance broke disc three by accident though EDIT I'll do it
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