“I am old now, Frodo. I’m not the same hobbit I once was.” Can’t quite say why, but I love this line. Sadness from entering old age, but with a fond nostalgia for all the adventures he’s had. A life well lived. We all should hope for as much.
I honestly think that this “story time” opening, as well as Galadriel’s prologue in Lord of the Rings, are some of the best parts of the entire film series. They create a sense of child-like wonder and set the mood for the rest of the movie so perfectly (Bilbo’s especially).
Bilbo Baggins was Ian Holm’s final role before his passing in 2020, and it was a very important role for him to end his career due to his poor health. RIP Ian. 😢
The same could be said for Christopher Lee who played Saruman. Both men were too old and weak to travel, and so, special accommodations were made to get their scenes filmed in the UK where they lived rather than New Zealand.
this makes me sad. this opening and a number of scenes and sequences through the trilogy were so much like the originals. if they had given Jackson more time, more freedom, these could have been on the same level
I like the adaptation and these. I'm not as picky as most because I know I can't do better LOL. But yes I 100% agree with you. I think he did an amazing job and I guarantee you they could not have done better
They could have done better in the way that the extras like the Orcs were played by people in suits rather than being completely computerized. This is why the original trilogy feels more realistic than the Hobbit trilogy when it comes to the orc scenes.
It is worth noting that Thror (Thorin's Grandfather) possessed one of the Seven Rings that Sauron gave the Dwarf-Lords, and was corrupted by it. When Sauron made the Rings, he was ignorant of the nature of the Dwarves, since his master, Morgoth, had had no part in their creation, unlike all other forms of Life which were laid out during the Song of Creation, and thus could not pass that information along to Sauron. So while the Nine Rings were specifically crafted to twist and corrupt the Men who wore them, Sauron could not achieve the same result with the Seven Rings he gave to the Dwarf-Lords. The Ring of Thror was imbued with the power to amplify one's natural skills and traits, but this was a double edged sword, as it also amplified one's negative traits as well as the positive ones. The Ring would thus amplify your wisdom, courage, insight, and bravery, but also amplified your greed and cunning equally. In the end, Thror fell to this power, and the Ring passed to Thrain (Thorin's dad) after Thror's death. When Thrain attempted an expedition to Erebor (many years later) Sauron's agents pursued them and Thrain was captured and taken to Dol Guldur. There he was tortured and his mind broken, and Sauron took the last of the Seven Rings from him and left him to die. Gandalf found him there (mostly by accident) and got the map from Thrain and promised to deliver it to Thorin, but Thrain was too maimed and broken, and he died there in the pits. At the Council Of Elrond, Gandalf figured that one of the reasons Balin wanted to re-take Moria was to find the Ring of Thror (since most Dwarves thought it had been lost there when Azog killed Thror in Moria) but Gandalf told him he wouldn't find it there, since Thror had given it to Thrain before leaving for his journey to Moria.
Apologies, all apologies. Balin. Not there at the council of Elrond. don't care for your spray to be fair either, surfeit to requirements as noted above. THANKS for vishnu.
Agreed. They have their faults but they're also full of amazing scenes like Riddles in the Dark, Smaug and Bilbo, the party at bag end. Also whatever people say I'll always love the barrel riding scene, it's just good fun.
Absolutely. Even the opening hour of the film was perfect just as Bilbo sets off on his adventure with the Dwarves. It does however go downhill from there. Not terribly, but the films could have done without the cliché Azog storyline and the cringe-worthy parts forced into it in order to drag the story out over three films.
Erebor was always my favorite Dwarven kingdom in the Middle Earth movies. To me, it’s a standard example or template of what a great Dwarf realm should be based on, mountain and all.
Fun fact: the problem with gold in the setting, is that out of all materials in creation, it is the one which has the greatest proportion of Morgoth's lingering essence. It's why dragons are so drawn to it, and why dwarves, which are otherwise resistant if not otherwise immune to Sauron's influence, are instead driven to greed by the Seven Rings.
Whatever you may think about the movie and trilogy as a whole, they knocked it out of the park with the design and feel of the Dwarves. Loved the opening.
0:27 ;-; the music.... 1:14 I just fucking love that music while it pans over the map, because I live in NZ and I know most of the set is real! All except the castle Erebor XD That's not real lol
Whenever I read the book, I like to think of Bilbo in his twilight years sitting at his desk in Bag End, quill in hand, reflecting back on his life and the events that changed him forever and his friends in Erebor, Mirkwood, and Dale.
Look as much as this trilogy didn't end up as much of a masterpiece like it's predecessor and i absolutely love the lord of the rings, I very much loved this trilogy aswell and during my late primary school years when the hobbit movies came out and all the way up until my early high school years I was obsessed with this trilogy and I had books on the behind the scenes, I watched the three movies most specifically Unexpected Journey and Battle of the five armies all the time which annoyed my family alot. I know that many lotr fans and Tolkien fans didn't like how the hobbit movies turned out there were a few things I liked about the movies. Overall I loved and appreciated the hobbit movies alot they may not be as well written or emotional like Lotr but these movies will always have a special place in my heart.
Watched this with my dad in theaters when it first came out. I was too young to see LOTR in theaters, but fell in love with them when I grew older. Seeing this opening scene was my first Middle Earth experience on the big screen. It did not fail to disappoint! I'll never forget the feeling when the shire theme first played...
"But the years of peace and plenty were not to last." Like a few other lines in the trilogy, that line is completely gone in the extended edition, since the previous scene is expanded upon.
Unlike Lord of the rings trilogy, the extended versions of Hobbit trilogy were not as epic as the extended versions as them. This is the one time when the teatrical version is better
In the ground there lived a hobbit. Possibly one of the greatest, and best way to open a saga beyond repute, just a simple home. I think of pasta, freshly made as I got home from school. I think that’s what Tolkien meant for the Shire.
I love the music here. Just how many themes are already established: Erebor of course, Smaug's theme (which has similarity to Sauron's theme, signaling relation) and even the woodland realm's theme and the arkenstone.
In the first film, it wasn’t the cgi that bothered me most. It’s how everything looked so blurry and bright. The cgi made it worse and it gave me a headache
EVEN IN THESE MOVIES the female dwarves have beards (not as long and luscious like men, but still), so why the f*ck doesn't the new "princess of Khazad'dum" have one?!
I cannot believe people don't like Peter Jacksons adaptation. Is not easy to do at all and it's easy to talk shit but they could not do better or even close. Awesome movies
‼️HEADCANON‼️ The reason Bilbo nows all these thing is BC thorin told him when he was accepted into the group and they saw him a there own Like the way Bilbo Describes it is 100% word for word on how thorin was describing it and he remembered all of it and would 100% quote thorins name at the end 😭✋🏼
You can say what you will about the Hobbit trilogy. Nothing can ever compare to LOTR. It just isn't possible. Hobbit was never going to be as epic as LOTR. But Hobbit is still hundreds of miles better than Rings of Power and probably anything else that anyone else can produce. Love him or hate him, Peter Jackson does justice to Tolkien. I don't think anyone else could've done Hobbit better. Tolkien's estate's dissatisfaction with Peter Jackson is irrational and bordering on petty. They should be kissing his feet for basically introducing Tolkien's work to the mainstream audience and to an entirely new generation. Christopher Tolkien was the living stereotype of an bitter, sad ultra fan that doesn't appreciate anything outside of the books his father made. His bias and zealotry towards his father's work wouldn't allow for that. It's not like Jackson completely flipped the script. The story and overall theme matches with the books. Some creative agency had to be taken in order to convince the casual viewer about certain characters. The books have a ton of context that explain why certain characters act a certain way and what motivates them. There is no way you can fit all that in to a movie so you have to cut corners and maybe even completely change certain things. A movie is good if it can stand on its own without the context of the book and both LOTR and Hobbit does that. They are both good movies and even better books. And they can both be good at the same time in their own way. It is not mutually exclusive. We should all be thankful that someone was talented enough to make Tolkien's work into two different movie trilogies and actually be pretty good. There aren't a lot of franchise that get justice done on the big screen and we are extremely lucky that Jackson did as good as he did.
Actually, according to lore, Thorin's Grandfather was in possession of one of the rings that were given to the dwarves. The ring granted them power to increase their wealth however, when Sauron was unable to control the will of the dwarves, he instead increase their greed and anger over their wealth.
This trilogy started off so promising, for a brief moment it captured the feeling of the original, that magic. If only... So many things happened differently.
If they just would have build more than one one Balista for the Black arrows. Such a gigantic defensive wall but the only balista is in dale. 10 more on Erebors walls well rip smaug?
Tolkein never put much thought into that as it's written as a fairy tale. Practically I believe the answer is the dwarves kept the lion share for themselves and had their own self-contained economy not based on gold alone. They didn't share it across the whole of middle-earth but instead created things for men who came to trade like weapons, tools, armor, toys, jewelry etc.. In return, men would trade food stuff's, animals, hides, cloth or even gold and silver from other realms. Similar to how with certain Native American tribes beads and polished stones were more precious then gold or silver. So it was considered a fair trade all-round and neither economy collapsed.
If they kept the Directing like this with the great drawf city and focus only on the dwarves and their riches and stories the trilogies would've been good at least from a certain point of view lol.
This is the thing about Tolkein's work: everything is over the top, everything is laughably excessive, everything is so much hyperbole mixed with fact it's impossible to distinguish them from each other.
If the studio's gave Peter Jackson the time and effort for all three films, The Hobbit might have been good enough to even surpass The Lord Of The Rings.
If this kingdom has so much gold and jems and they are selling a lot of them on the market, the economy should self correct and make these jewels worthless and thus making them not rich.
“I am old now, Frodo. I’m not the same hobbit I once was.” Can’t quite say why, but I love this line. Sadness from entering old age, but with a fond nostalgia for all the adventures he’s had. A life well lived. We all should hope for as much.
Just have to be sure to end your relationship with crazy ass people. If you notice Bilbo lives alone.
He lives with his nephew Frodo. He doesn't live alone.
I gotta say I love that the line happens at the exact moment we see the drawing of Martin Freeman.
Quite literally not the same hobbit
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It's nice to have some closure, something new and knowing that what you let go will come back to you
I honestly think that this “story time” opening, as well as Galadriel’s prologue in Lord of the Rings, are some of the best parts of the entire film series. They create a sense of child-like wonder and set the mood for the rest of the movie so perfectly (Bilbo’s especially).
Yeah, they both give feeling like hearing "Once upon a time..." while lying in bed with mom telling you fairy tales
Well, The Hobbit was a children's fantasy story. So it makes sense to have a sense of magical wonder going into the story.
Bilbo Baggins was Ian Holm’s final role before his passing in 2020, and it was a very important role for him to end his career due to his poor health.
RIP Ian. 😢
I think this was also him speaking "I'm old now...I'm not the same....I once was."
The same could be said for Christopher Lee who played Saruman.
Both men were too old and weak to travel, and so, special accommodations were made to get their scenes filmed in the UK where they lived rather than New Zealand.
He is not Ian, he is Bilbo Baggins
I Dont see ian Holm i see Bilbo baggins.
Poor health is crazy considering the man was nearly 90 haha
I absolutely love The Hobbit trilogy, and the intro is just so beautiful!
this makes me sad. this opening and a number of scenes and sequences through the trilogy were so much like the originals. if they had given Jackson more time, more freedom, these could have been on the same level
I like the adaptation and these. I'm not as picky as most because I know I can't do better LOL. But yes I 100% agree with you. I think he did an amazing job and I guarantee you they could not have done better
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@@mmkiddoffcl5863 studio executives
Honestly, there should have only been one hobbit movie that just covers the contents of the book
They could have done better in the way that the extras like the Orcs were played by people in suits rather than being completely computerized. This is why the original trilogy feels more realistic than the Hobbit trilogy when it comes to the orc scenes.
It is worth noting that Thror (Thorin's Grandfather) possessed one of the Seven Rings that Sauron gave the Dwarf-Lords, and was corrupted by it. When Sauron made the Rings, he was ignorant of the nature of the Dwarves, since his master, Morgoth, had had no part in their creation, unlike all other forms of Life which were laid out during the Song of Creation, and thus could not pass that information along to Sauron. So while the Nine Rings were specifically crafted to twist and corrupt the Men who wore them, Sauron could not achieve the same result with the Seven Rings he gave to the Dwarf-Lords.
The Ring of Thror was imbued with the power to amplify one's natural skills and traits, but this was a double edged sword, as it also amplified one's negative traits as well as the positive ones. The Ring would thus amplify your wisdom, courage, insight, and bravery, but also amplified your greed and cunning equally. In the end, Thror fell to this power, and the Ring passed to Thrain (Thorin's dad) after Thror's death. When Thrain attempted an expedition to Erebor (many years later) Sauron's agents pursued them and Thrain was captured and taken to Dol Guldur. There he was tortured and his mind broken, and Sauron took the last of the Seven Rings from him and left him to die. Gandalf found him there (mostly by accident) and got the map from Thrain and promised to deliver it to Thorin, but Thrain was too maimed and broken, and he died there in the pits.
At the Council Of Elrond, Gandalf figured that one of the reasons Balin wanted to re-take Moria was to find the Ring of Thror (since most Dwarves thought it had been lost there when Azog killed Thror in Moria) but Gandalf told him he wouldn't find it there, since Thror had given it to Thrain before leaving for his journey to Moria.
Actually I just read he never got a ring …. His son did but lost it when he got captured
Apologies, all apologies. Balin. Not there at the council of Elrond. don't care for your spray to be fair either, surfeit to requirements as noted above. THANKS for vishnu.
@@TheTbss89 Balin and Thrain great.
The sight of Frodo smiling is bittersweet since, well, you know what's gonna happen to him.
Imma be honest, Erebor looks SICK, dude. Like I wanna live here, this is insane.
Best be careful. Like all dwarves kingdoms, there is a significant lack of handrails.
you wanna walk those stairs everyday? cause there's barely any working elevators
I literally got chills when I watched this a few months ago and the Shire Theme played in the beginning with the title...
Same here… 😊
Really feels like coming home, doesn't it?
@@SkippertheBart it certainly does
I don't care what anyone says, I love these movies.
Same the hobbit and the lord of the ring is my favourite movie's
Same here...
Same here. They're silly and often cliched but I love them.
Agreed. They have their faults but they're also full of amazing scenes like Riddles in the Dark, Smaug and Bilbo, the party at bag end. Also whatever people say I'll always love the barrel riding scene, it's just good fun.
Growing up we didn't even have any issues with these movies like genuinely without knowing or reading the books we enjoyed as kids
Martin Freeman is the perfect bilbo in my opinion! Great actor and he even looks like a younger him.
RIP sir ian holm, you will always be a legend to honor, respect, and remember
The inside of the mountain is awesome.
That opening 1 minute is perfect.
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Absolutely. Even the opening hour of the film was perfect just as Bilbo sets off on his adventure with the Dwarves. It does however go downhill from there. Not terribly, but the films could have done without the cliché Azog storyline and the cringe-worthy parts forced into it in order to drag the story out over three films.
2:10 How I describe my Minecraft base to my friends
Erebor was always my favorite Dwarven kingdom in the Middle Earth movies. To me, it’s a standard example or template of what a great Dwarf realm should be based on, mountain and all.
Fun fact: the problem with gold in the setting, is that out of all materials in creation, it is the one which has the greatest proportion of Morgoth's lingering essence. It's why dragons are so drawn to it, and why dwarves, which are otherwise resistant if not otherwise immune to Sauron's influence, are instead driven to greed by the Seven Rings.
So perfect
I am the only crying all alone? I just love this intro
No, you are not the only one ☝️.
It always makes me so nostalgic :')
I agree with Bilbo how friendships and relationships end and for what? Over such foolishness
Whatever you may think about the movie and trilogy as a whole, they knocked it out of the park with the design and feel of the Dwarves. Loved the opening.
0:27 ;-; the music....
1:14 I just fucking love that music while it pans over the map, because I live in NZ and I know most of the set is real! All except the castle Erebor XD That's not real lol
I can't find that theme anywhere. Tears come from my face when I hear it
Whenever I read the book, I like to think of Bilbo in his twilight years sitting at his desk in Bag End, quill in hand, reflecting back on his life and the events that changed him forever and his friends in Erebor, Mirkwood, and Dale.
0:27 brings me to tears in the soundtrack department
This theme is pure gold for ears but i can't find him..
Look as much as this trilogy didn't end up as much of a masterpiece like it's predecessor and i absolutely love the lord of the rings, I very much loved this trilogy aswell and during my late primary school years when the hobbit movies came out and all the way up until my early high school years I was obsessed with this trilogy and I had books on the behind the scenes, I watched the three movies most specifically Unexpected Journey and Battle of the five armies all the time which annoyed my family alot. I know that many lotr fans and Tolkien fans didn't like how the hobbit movies turned out there were a few things I liked about the movies.
Overall I loved and appreciated the hobbit movies alot they may not be as well written or emotional like Lotr but these movies will always have a special place in my heart.
I love dwarves so much! I really enjoyed how these movies focused on them and Thorin's company :)
Watched this with my dad in theaters when it first came out. I was too young to see LOTR in theaters, but fell in love with them when I grew older. Seeing this opening scene was my first Middle Earth experience on the big screen. It did not fail to disappoint! I'll never forget the feeling when the shire theme first played...
"But the years of peace and plenty were not to last."
Like a few other lines in the trilogy, that line is completely gone in the extended edition, since the previous scene is expanded upon.
Unlike Lord of the rings trilogy, the extended versions of Hobbit trilogy were not as epic as the extended versions as them. This is the one time when the teatrical version is better
One of the most ubiquitous sicknesses in all of existence. Greed.
2:37 watched the whole thing for this part. Dwarf has the balls to hold heated metal up in between two massive hammers
In the ground there lived a hobbit.
Possibly one of the greatest, and best way to open a saga beyond repute, just a simple home.
I think of pasta, freshly made as I got home from school. I think that’s what Tolkien meant for the Shire.
2:24, hey, look! it's jeebs, before getting into stolen rolexes.
This trumps the entirety of Rings of Power Seasons 1 and 2.
I think they should have done this kind of prologue as most of the time, I have no idea what’s going on and who is who.
@@thomasfy4 its easier if you read Silmarillion.
@@RandomPuertorico true
My favorite scene from this trilogy!
2:37 But like, that's THE most epic shot of a dwarven craftsman to ever exist?
The GREATEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN IN HUMAN HISTORY ,what an accomplished
Rest In Peace
Ian Holm
actor of elderly Bilbo Baggins
I love the music here. Just how many themes are already established: Erebor of course, Smaug's theme (which has similarity to Sauron's theme, signaling relation) and even the woodland realm's theme and the arkenstone.
Greed corrupts all, it’s gone on for centuries
Funny how true that gold can turn a good person so dark
Didn’t help that he was wearing one of the 7 rings of the dwarves, which amplified his greed
In Polish gold is called "złoto" but when you divide it, it turns out "zło to" which literally means "evil this"
It cannot.
It can, however, expose a person for who they are.
In the first film, it wasn’t the cgi that bothered me most. It’s how everything looked so blurry and bright. The cgi made it worse and it gave me a headache
This is Cinema!
You have got to be insane to put a molten ingot in between two hammers and not get your hand crushed in the process.
This full series is a masterpiece 🔥🔥
EVEN IN THESE MOVIES the female dwarves have beards (not as long and luscious like men, but still), so why the f*ck doesn't the new "princess of Khazad'dum" have one?!
I cannot believe people don't like Peter Jacksons adaptation. Is not easy to do at all and it's easy to talk shit but they could not do better or even close. Awesome movies
Put this and Galadriel’s monologue on repeat for the rest of my life
‼️HEADCANON‼️
The reason Bilbo nows all these thing is BC thorin told him when he was accepted into the group and they saw him a there own
Like the way Bilbo Describes it is 100% word for word on how thorin was describing it and he remembered all of it and would 100% quote thorins name at the end 😭✋🏼
Who was Happy seeing frodo baggins
the first ten seconds the background score by howard shore is amazing
This is the best literary location set up of all. Never matched
There is a vj in uganda called. Junior..he made this movie but it makes us cry in that intro
You can say what you will about the Hobbit trilogy. Nothing can ever compare to LOTR. It just isn't possible. Hobbit was never going to be as epic as LOTR. But Hobbit is still hundreds of miles better than Rings of Power and probably anything else that anyone else can produce. Love him or hate him, Peter Jackson does justice to Tolkien. I don't think anyone else could've done Hobbit better.
Tolkien's estate's dissatisfaction with Peter Jackson is irrational and bordering on petty. They should be kissing his feet for basically introducing Tolkien's work to the mainstream audience and to an entirely new generation. Christopher Tolkien was the living stereotype of an bitter, sad ultra fan that doesn't appreciate anything outside of the books his father made. His bias and zealotry towards his father's work wouldn't allow for that. It's not like Jackson completely flipped the script.
The story and overall theme matches with the books. Some creative agency had to be taken in order to convince the casual viewer about certain characters. The books have a ton of context that explain why certain characters act a certain way and what motivates them. There is no way you can fit all that in to a movie so you have to cut corners and maybe even completely change certain things. A movie is good if it can stand on its own without the context of the book and both LOTR and Hobbit does that. They are both good movies and even better books. And they can both be good at the same time in their own way. It is not mutually exclusive.
We should all be thankful that someone was talented enough to make Tolkien's work into two different movie trilogies and actually be pretty good. There aren't a lot of franchise that get justice done on the big screen and we are extremely lucky that Jackson did as good as he did.
Hmm, what if the Arkenstone is responsible for Thorin's Grandfather driven mad by greed?
Actually, according to lore, Thorin's Grandfather was in possession of one of the rings that were given to the dwarves. The ring granted them power to increase their wealth however, when Sauron was unable to control the will of the dwarves, he instead increase their greed and anger over their wealth.
I'm never tired to rewatch again and again hobbit and lord of the rings❤❤the book re lovely too❤
This trilogy started off so promising, for a brief moment it captured the feeling of the original, that magic. If only... So many things happened differently.
My dear frodo,, that hits hard
“I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole”
So practically the Dragon is the Tax office
Smaug: "Thror, you didn't do your tax returns! So they sent the bailiff, me!"
I am old now Frodo... Im not the same hobbit i once was...
Think about when your kids are all grown up and you are old....
@Pedro Ortega sadness and nostalgia
Looking at your younger sketch!
Say what you want about these movies, but I grew up with them and I’ll always regard them as great movies despite the flaws not making them perfect
Best intro
I blame Peter Jackson for making all of us Silmarillion fans think the Arkenstone was a silmaril. He made it glow too brightly.
I have to watch this for school, lol
Luckyyy, wish I had to watch the Hobbit for school lol
If they just would have build more than one one Balista for the Black arrows. Such a gigantic defensive wall but the only balista is in dale. 10 more on Erebors walls well rip smaug?
RIP Ian Holm
If they found so much gold and jewels, wouldn't that make the value of it go down?
Tolkein never put much thought into that as it's written as a fairy tale. Practically I believe the answer is the dwarves kept the lion share for themselves and had their own self-contained economy not based on gold alone. They didn't share it across the whole of middle-earth but instead created things for men who came to trade like weapons, tools, armor, toys, jewelry etc.. In return, men would trade food stuff's, animals, hides, cloth or even gold and silver from other realms. Similar to how with certain Native American tribes beads and polished stones were more precious then gold or silver. So it was considered a fair trade all-round and neither economy collapsed.
Bad things will follow...
In which part of the soundtrack is this found? 0:41
You mean, u want the song name?
I actually really like these films. They’re not the LOTR trilogy, but they are enjoyable. Still better then ROP
If they kept the Directing like this with the great drawf city and focus only on the dwarves and their riches and stories the trilogies would've been good at least from a certain point of view lol.
0:00 - 0:13 best song I hear
True
New Story for the Hobbit Fear street and harry potter. To Nell Fisher and Lily Sullivan.
And they say the hobbit movie wasn't close to the book .. so what about the new rings of power.. is nothing like the books
This is the thing about Tolkein's work: everything is over the top, everything is laughably excessive, everything is so much hyperbole mixed with fact it's impossible to distinguish them from each other.
If the studio's gave Peter Jackson the time and effort for all three films, The Hobbit might have been good enough to even surpass The Lord Of The Rings.
Martin Freeman was criminally underused in the last two movies
Was the stone cursed or was it simply his ring that made him greedy and crazy?
Oh wow
Can we just have a movie just base on when there was peace 😅, I’d actually watch that
so now that the show is out....is this movie...good?
It's a poor adaptation since it has to stretch out a single book into three movies, and the show doesn't adapt the hobbit, it's fan fiction.
@@aminulhussain2277Compared what they did with Rings of Power, The Hobbit was a masterpiece.
This is better then rop did with moria
thorin is a…shield
made of wood
uh
Ian Holmes is the only true Bilbo
STEPHEN LEE
Wood elves and dwarves and humans most my best species the lord of the rings and hobbit worst ever had!
I, indeed this is a very fine opening. These fine golds are my jewels! And tis, I THINK IT IS INDEED A COPY OF HARRY POTTER!
REAL
WORD !! 😮💨
A Divinely appointed monarchy is not a stable system.
Despite their flaws I really liked the Hobbit films, but they aren’t LOTR
Me too, I especially liked Smaug
If this kingdom has so much gold and jems and they are selling a lot of them on the market, the economy should self correct and make these jewels worthless and thus making them not rich.
Dwarves hoard most of it
Tell that to the diamond industry. All it takes to make something seem valuable when it’s not scarce is to convince people it’s rare.
If they have so much gold and gems that means they control the market for gold and gems, and thus can purchase whatever they wish with it.
It’s more like narration
Erebor = Ophir
And they say this series were bad. Gft****