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And I STILL loved every freakin’ awesome minute of it!!

I also must say from the getgo that if Peter Jackson and his fellow scribes on this movie’s screenplay keep up their vibe, that they will have no problem whatsoever filling out the next two films of the trilogy with a healthy balance of action and Tolkien-ish fluff. Maybe we should lobby Jackson to prepare for work on a three-part adaptation of The Silmarillion as his next project. Then we can have nine movies about the history of Middle-Earth sitting on the Blu-ray shelf. But I digress…

M’lady Kristen and I caught The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey yesterday afternoon, on a normal-sized screen (there’s no proper IMAX screen in the immediate vicinity) and in time-honored 2D. And not in that newfangled 48 FPS either (I’m getting reports from all over the place that the higher framerate really can and does...

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And high-def Quicktime versions of the trailer are up at trailers.apple.com. We wants it my Precious, yesssss…

I made Kristen promise me something late last year: that we will see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey together at its midnight premiere, Lord willing, no matter what. Seeing this trailer has stoked my longing for this movie that much more. December 14th cannot get here fast enough! Okay yeah it can, but you know what I mean…...

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Something I noticed yesterday evening…

Here’s a photograph from northern Europe of some of the Aurora Borealis resulting from the massive discharge of solar particles hitting the Earth this week:

Looks rather like a great big bird of prey, doesn’t it?

Compare that to this painting by Ted Nasmith, titled The Eagles of Manwë:

“…And out of the west there would come at times a great cloud in the evening, shaped as it were an eagle, with pinions spread to the north and the south; and slowly it would loom up, blotting out the sunset, and then uttermost night would fall upon Númenor. And some of the eagles bore lightning beneath their wings, and thunder echoed between sea and cloud.

“Then men grew afraid. ‘Behold the Eagles of the Lords of the West!’ they cried. ‘The Eagles of Manwë are come upon Númenor!’ And they fell upon their

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It was ten years ago this week that The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring came out and last night on the way out of town for the evening I had that movie’s score soundtrack playin’ good and epicly loud from my car’s stereo… and I found myself thinking then “I wonder when we’ll see that first trailer for The Hobbit?”.

Lookee what was already several hours online when I got home a few hours ago!

Ohmigoshohmigoshohmigosh…!!!!!!!!!!!!

That. Is. One. Hell. Of. A. Toad-strangler. Of. A. Trailer.

Heck, it is insanely better looking than anything I had expected of The Hobbit movie, now a decade after Peter Jackson and his crew delivered The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yeah I didn’t know if The Hobbit was gonna work at all…

Color me persuaded with extra portions of giddy!

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey comes out next ...

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Ever since I began my own forays into filmmaking, it’s become one of my personal missions in life to encourage others to make their own movies too. And you wanna know why?

Because the time has finally arrived when every person can make a movie that stands on par with anything that the major studios can produce.

Seriously. Think about it: high-def consumer camcorders are now inexpensive and with some equally affordable editing software and a lil’ bit of know-how, the finished footage can look extremely cinematic. Can’t compose a note of music? Ask around on the ‘net for talented folks to help you out (hey, it’s what I’m doing with a project now 🙂

Thanks to the web and broadband, practically the entire world becomes a fully-equipped studio and post-production facility right at your fingertips. There’s no longer any reason not to make the movie you have always dreamed ...

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It’s true! Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have made nice and are producing a big-screen feature of The Hobbit, just as Jackson did with The Lord of the Rings several years ago.

But that’s not all: the deal also includes a sequel that will “bridge” the events of The Hobbit with The Lord of the Rings that took place sixty years later. If you’ve ever read some of Tolkien’s other works, you know that there was a lot more going on in that period that the books just hinted at.

Ain’t It Cool News has more, including an official press release and some mention about how Howard Shore may already be working on the music for the new movies.

The Hobbit will hit theaters in 2010.

(Okay Lisa, you can stop worrying now: they are making this finally 🙂...

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