The review as promised based on the movie.
And now for the story.
Bilbo: Can you promise I will come back
Gandalf: No, but if you will you’ll have a tale or two to tell when you came back.
- The first adventure is with the trolls who can’t quite decide how to cook them, Bilbo and the dwarves minus Gandalf since he went ahead. He came back in the nick of time to save them and the Cave Trolls turned to stone after Gandalf exposed them to the sun. In here, Bilbo showed quick thinking which delayed the trolls from eating them.
- The second adventure is running into Radagast the Brown who told Gandalf of the Necromancer and running from the Orcs on Wargs and seeking refuge in Rivendell by Gandalf’s design. Here Thorin reluctantly seek Elrond’s (Hugo Weaving) advice on a map to the Lonely Mountains door. Gandalf and the council of the guardians of Middle Earth meet and the dwarves left with Bilbo. They encountered the Stone Giants after their escape.
- The third adventure was being captured by the Goblins while Bilbo was planning to run away. He was ignored though but when chaos ensued he fell. And at the bottom of the cave he met Gollum and the ring (the same ring he passed on to Frodo in the fellowship) and it changed his life forever. The dwarves were saved by Gandalf again. When Gandalf asked for Bilbo after the rescue, Thorin told him that Bilbo is better off on his own as he already said that Bilbo was lost the day he joined the dwarves. Then Bilbo showed himself much to everyone’s surprise.
- The fourth adventure was with the Pale Orc everybody thought Thorin killed a long time ago using a sword and an oak branch as shield. He was in command of the Wargs and Orcs and was going to behead Thorin but Bilbo got in the way. It was a fiery battle and in the end, the eagles came to rescue them.
In connection to the Lord of the Rings, this is the book that started it all. This is where the Ring which was the main event of the Lord of the Rings. Gollum is here and kudos to Andy Serkis, he is one great actor after all.
It began with an old Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm) finally sitting down to write his adventures with the dwarves for his nephew Frodo on a day before his 111th birthday. In the LOTR series, that was the day he left home to live with the elves. The story started on how the dwarves were driven off from their Mountain (Kingdom) by the dragon. This dragon Smaug was lured there by the Arkenstone of Thrain, grandfather of the main protagonist of the story Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), Lord of the Mountains. The dwarves had no choice but no flee and no help came to them from the elves that day which started the hatred between Elves and Dwarves.
Jumping many years, Gandalf (Ian McKellen) came asking Bilbo (Martin Freeman) if he wants to go on an adventure. He said no and asked him to leave. Gandalf left a mark on the door and when evening came, the dwarves came to Bilbo’s house. There are 13 of them, and 13 is an unlucky number, so they asked Gandalf to pick another companion for them that will also serve as their ‘burglar’. Bilbo wasn’t quite agreeable but Gandalf said that he’s a Took and the Tooks’ are an adventurous lot. So he went off to have an adventure. This was quite a touching scene.
Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnYMbYB-nU
And the actor who caught everybody’s attention playing Kili (Aidan Turner), it was like Oh he has bows and arrows just like Legolas. Hehe.
But not everybody liked the Hobbit movie. But who cares, I love it anyway.
- Movie Review for the Unexpected Journey Here
- Movie Review for the Desolation of Smaug Here
- There and Back Again: coming soon
Daghang salamat sa pagbasa!!!
