So, for those who weren’t there, and wanted to know the context of Ken’s quote, here’s what happened:
Me: Hi, I have a question for Ken. In the end of “The Battle of Five Armies” when Bilbo is about to leave Erebor, he says goodbye to Balin and Balin tells him that “Thorin Oakenshield will become a legend”. And Bilbo says “To me, he never was. He was…” and then Bilbo doesn’t quite finish his sentece and doesn’t say what Thorin was to him, but Balin gives him this this look, as if he knew what Bilbo was about to say. I was wondering, what was going through Balin’s mind in that moment?
Ken: Well… Balin knew what Thorin felt for Bilbo.
*audience cheers*
Ken: And I think he wanted to let Bilbo know… that Thorin held him in such high regard… That’s what I think he was doing.
so what ken stott’s saying is that when bilbo tries to explain what thorin was to him in this scene:
balin gives him this look that in fact means ‘thorin felt the same way about you’:
SO YOU’RE TELLING ME BILBO REALIZES AT THIS MOMENT THAT HIS FEELINGS WERE RECIPROCATED?? WHEN THIS IS TOO LATE????
And when Ken said that, beside him, Graham was looking at the left side of the audience after he heard someone squealed and he made a knowing look of a smirk. It was either he was amused, or he also agreed with what Ken had said. Oops I choose the latter. I think this cast is out there to kill us with this pain
It’s one of those nights where I google into the deep hours of the night and try to determine the composition of the Arkenstone! The film gave us a sort of fantasy glowing opal, but my results were different. In summary:
~=Cerussite is a ridiculously sparkly, heavy, and poisonous mineral associated with veins of gold which can also be poisoned. And it (with creativity) could conceivably be found in an extinct volcano.=~
Of course, there’s rather more where that came from because I don’t know when to stop when doing fantasy geology.
Pictures, Tolkien quotes, and geology under the cut. Warning: long thorough!
you’ll have to manage without pocket handkerchiefs and a good many other things, bilbo baggins, before we reach our journey’s end.
I loved this bit when I saw first it in the theatre, because the one thing that he wanted to turn back for during the journey was (despite the ransacking of his home) still there when he returned.
So I made a little size chart of Dragons of Middle-Earth
I think these are right but if anyone has quotes or anything to indicate something different, send them my way and I’ll fix it.
I love this because you realize that all the ego stroking in The Hobbit is Smaug trying to cover up that he’s a tiny, tiny dragon. Smaug the magnificent? impenetrable? Chiefest and greatest of calamities? More like Smaug the small and annoying.
Holy mother of god…how did Ancalagon the Black not destroy ALL of Middle Earth???
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