that's pretty much how it needs to be done to get the shape right, seeing as we only have human actors to work with.

You read The Hobbit? I've only seen the old cartoon, but I did enjoy Jackson et al.'s LOTR films.

Sigh.... here's the long-awaited picture of Thorin. Except... that's not Thorin. Not to me, never will be.



And here's a pic of all the dwarves together. I'm really not very interested in this movie anymore.



As a contrast, this is how I'll always picture Thorin, and damn it if that pic doesn't excite me more than everything I've seen on Jackson's film so far.

The dwarves make me think of Dragon Age....which I also enjoy.

I dunno if I'll watch this in theaters though....but get it on DVD? Why not.

I want to see the movie, mainly to see how it compares to the book, and see how badly Jackson screws it up.

You might find Suzerain's LOTR review thread here interesting.

I always think of cartoon Thorin, grey hair and somewhat snooty looking with a tall head. Th epic there kinda makes me think of Conan the Barbarian if you were to making him out of plasticine and squish him up a little bit so he's more dwarf shaped.

I like the dwarves here in that they are more or less dwarfy looking and distinct enough from each other to be recognizable (get's annoying when watching a movie and every few minutes someone has to ask "who the hell is that?"). Still not fond of the guys on either end though. The guy on the left looks a little heavy on the pillow stuffing and the guy on the right looks more like a really heavy halfling. Maybe it's just that the way he's standing gives him a peeny waist. I've never really thought of dwarves as having peeny waists.

I think Kili, on the right, looks more like a man than a dwarf. He'd make a good ranger, honestly.

And Bombur, on the left, is just totally ridiculous, as expected.

And speaking of my reviews, I should really get the next scene up...

I'm not all that invested in the Lord of the Rings series, but of all the books, I enjoyed The Hobbit the best, so I'll probably see this movie.

Plus, even if I didn't like the book - it stars Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, and Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of Smaug! As a Sherlock fan, I have to giggle and clap at this.

I really want to hold out faith that this'll be decent, if not good, but after seeing those dwarves, I'm really having my doubts. I have a very hard time meshing those guys pictured above with what I've seen in my imagination from like... 10 readings of the book. Anyone else want to weigh in on this? I'll be surprised if anyone actually pictured the dwarves that way.

And, you know, you'd think a story as simple and straightforward as The Hobbit would be relatively easy to adapt to film, but I don't trust Jackson and his unholy trinity of smug, self-serving screenwriters to do anything but mutilate the original plot in effort to cram as much "cool" stuff into the movie as possible.

I'm looking forward to it personally. Have been a long time. After seeing the outfits of the characters, it makes me want to see it more.

It does seem like it's taking forever to come out. Next December is still a long way away.

Does anyone know if they're filming both movies together, like they did with the Lord of the Rings films?

I am looking forward to it, just because I have been waiting for a decent translation of the book for a while (Can't be any worse than the cartoon versions >.>). The Hobbit is my favorite and probably the one I have reread the most of any book I have ever owned. I love the characters and the story.

That picture of Thorin made me both excited and a little skeptical. My first thought was that it reminded me of what used to be the representation of Klingons on Star Trek the Original XD

I think I agree with you on the Klingon end, Gladde.

I like the costumes for the most part. As far as they dwarves themseves go, I think these would sort of be a more contemporary, cool looking dwarf like the way DnD 3.0 brought in skinnier, 'cool looking' halflings. Make sense?

*nods* The dwarves definitely have a more modern, DnD look to them. I can't get the Klingon image out of my head now though XP

I also expect that there will be changes to the story. I didn't notice them with LOTR because I had only read the books once and I did not remember much. I just hope that the changes won't be too severe. The story is already perfect as is, so I can imagine what would need to be cut out or changed. Whereas with the LOTR books, I was glad with some of the cuts/changes they did make. It took forever for Frodo to actually get to going...

They definately seem to follow the more recent DnD trends rather then the earlier ones. Of course, not really sure how much of the Tolkein dwarf and TSR/WotC dwarf resemble each other.

I haven't read The Hobbit, and I'm tempted not to until I see at least the first movie.