Subject: World Hobbit Project
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Posted on: 2015-01-08 11:05:00 UTC
This might be relevant to our interests.
It's a group of academics, who are researching how the Hobbit trilogy is understood an judged around the world.
And for that purpose they have a questionnaire. http://www.worldhobbitproject.org/
It's not very long, you can do it other languages than just English and it doesn't require an email-adress or any kind of sign up.
And was nearly late for a meeting. >.> But on the bright side, I got most of the ranting I wanted to do about these films out of my system, so I can spare you guys and avoid arguments like the Great Radagast Debate of 2012. ^_^
~Neshomeh, not fond of these films at all. (Except Smaug. Smaug was really cool, and I was sad when he died.)
Or more specifically an audiobook which I adored, so I had the thing borderline memorized. I was . . . less than thrilled with the movies myself, though I did really enjoy the Riddles in the Dark scene and Martin Freeman as Bilbo. Definitely a good way to avoid a lengthy debate.
I was raised on the BBC radio plays, myself. More LotR than The Hobbit, but both were a fixture of my bedtime routine for many years. I was super-stoked to learn that Ian Holm would play Bilbo in the LotR movies, since he was the voice of Frodo in the radio play. ^_^
~Neshomeh
That's a really cool tidbit, though--I remember hearing a radio play version of LotR at one point but I don't think it was the same one. Sam sounded really weird in it.
But then again, I was there more for Peter Jackson going a bit mad than I was for an actual Hobbit movie. That was what I wanted, and that was, to an extent, what I got. Recall that this chap made Braindead (which Americans may know as Dead/Alive), in which a man barrels through a crowd of zombies with a lawnmower strapped to his chest. Restraint, it am not how he work. =]
I think the only other Peter Jackson film I've seen is King Kong, and I thought that was over-the-top silly, too. So, yeah. As I said in the survey, I now appreciate the LotR films a lot more for their relative restraint. {= )
(Welcome back, BTW!)
~Neshomeh
That was longer than I expected! Some quite tricky questions in there, but I did my best to answer them all.
hS