This song is made by miracleofsound, a musician who is it a part-time worker on youtube who makes musical tributes to games and movies. As of now, I am starting a new series entitled Song of The Month, where I pick 1 song related to Tolkien's works from the internet.
Congratulations to miralceofsound for winning this award on my blog!
-Hobbit
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
The Hobbit Countdown - 2 Years Old.
As of today, this blog, The Hobbit Countdown is now 2 years old! I have to thank, all of you who have viewed my blog, followed my blog and shared it to others! Without you, I would not continue this blog. I was inspired to make this blog because of the very first Hobbit trailer, and the inspiration it set on me for this blog.
Thank you.
-Hobbit
Now comes The final countdown of The Hobbit, for 2014 ! It will be our last year for The Hobbit! Here we go.
Thank you.
-Hobbit
Now comes The final countdown of The Hobbit, for 2014 ! It will be our last year for The Hobbit! Here we go.
Wednesday, 8 January 2014
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug Soundtrack - Thrice Welcome
Once of the best and most enchanting pieces from the new 'Hobbit' movie, Thrice WelcomeWe are nearing the birthday of this blog, on January 15, which will make it 2 years old!
-Hobbit
-Hobbit
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - Review
This review on an incredible movie, is by yours truly.
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug is the second movie in the trilogy 'The Hobbit' taking place 60 years before the events of the much-known Lord of The Rings, filmed by Peter Jackson.
This film is very fast-paced and, at some points, a bit too fast-paced. During some sequences at the start of the movie, I felt like it was cutting through scenes very quickly without giving the audience much indication of the current events. However, as the film progressed, scenes became more compact and kept my heart racing in tension for what was going to happen next.
The sequence in Beorn's house was, in my view, the least explained and quickest scene that was carried out in the movie.
The film is much better than the first ( The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ) and I absolutely loved it.
Mirkwood was portrayed very accurately, and was not a disappointment.
Compared to the book, this is not a very sturdy account of the events in the book, and compared to the book I give it: 5.6/10.0
But, as a movie on its own, I give it: 9.5/10
-Hobbit
Thursday, 12 December 2013
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - Released!
Finally, after yet another, long, year of waiting, THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG has arrived! Millions of fans around the globe are highly excited for this movie. Just around 50 minutes ago, TH:DoS was released in some parts of the U.S.A. I must say, Thank you, thank YOU so much for coming with me yet another year for this amazing trilogy! 365 days ago, this blog was in the exact same position of the Hobbits release.
Several reviews (Is it just me,or is the font of the typing suddenly different?Oh well..) have rated that this movie is much better than the first, saying that the second Hobbit movie is much faster and is the very "action-packed, won't let down" type of film.
Take a moment, and think: who is your favorite character in The Hobbit ?
I will be doing a review on The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug in a few days time! Thanks!
-Hobbit
Sunday, 8 December 2013
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug - 4 Days Away!
The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, is only FOUR, yes ladies and gentlemen, FOUR days away! Based on reviews of the movie so far, it is much better than the first one, and.. well, here, have a look at a review for yourself.
Peter Jackson has picked up the pace. He began his Hobbit trilogy at an amiable, meanderingly wayward canter, and tried the patience of believers and non-believers alike with that initial supper scene, almost an epic in itself. But this second episode commences with a narrative whipcrack – a quick flashback to Gandalf and Thorin tensely discussing their great plan in the snug bar of the Prancing Pony – and then we're off, at a tremendous gallop.
The Desolation of Smaug is a cheerfully entertaining and exhilarating adventure tale, a supercharged Saturday morning picture: it's mysterious and strange and yet Jackson also effortlessly conjures up that genial quality that distinguishes The Hobbit from the more solemn Rings stories. The absurdity is winning: you're laughing with, not laughing at. For me, it never sagged once in its mighty two hour 40 minutes running time and the high-frame-rate projection for this film somehow looks richer and denser than it did the last time around. Maybe I'm just getting used to it. Jackson has shown that he is an expert in big-league popular movie-making to rival Lucas and Spielberg. His Smaug, with its fight scenes, chase spectaculars, creepy creatures and secret stone doors opening with a grinding noise, is something to set alongside the Indiana Jones films.
The end of the second movie out of three gives us a chance to revisit that critical question: does The Hobbit story work at this great length? Does epic-i-sation risk making The Hobbit too dour? In the book itself, Tolkien wrote: "Things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway." So perhaps Tolkien anticipated the way in which fantasy can grow exponentially, spinning substance out of itself, and become more and more serious and even solemn. Yet this second Hobbit film has real energy and charm.
Smaug is of course the terrible dragon, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, who has usurped the Lonely Mountain and the dwarf kingdom of Erebor with all its gold, and whom the dwarves and Bilbo Baggins are on a mission to unseat. The "desolation" is the wasteland he has imposed on the country thereabouts, rather than any depression the dragon himself may be feeling. Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) is the alpha dwarf, grimly intent on his destiny: to reclaim his people's heritage and homeland. Martin Freeman is Bilbo, and Freeman's laidback, more naturalistic line-readings make a pleasing and interesting contrast to the more contoured saga-speak that comes out of everyone else's mouth, whether they are speaking English or Elvish or the guttural Orc tongue.
Bilbo is reluctant to confide the truth about the ring in his possession toIan McKellen's Gandalf, who absents himself from the party reasonably early on, leaving that visually striking group looking and feeling vulnerable. Poor little Bilbo playing a non-Snow-White to the even littler dwarves as they trail across the magnificent landscape – but who are in fact tougher, more aggressive and more resilient than him.
A series of bizarre fantasy episodes, in a kind of Jackson-Tolkien-rococo style, brings us closer and closer to the mountain. The dwarves encounter Beorn the skin-changer who agrees, albeit churlishly, to help. The company finds itself lost and somehow spiritually oppressed in the forest of Mirkwood in which they get up close and personal with some colossal and very nasty spiders, which loom out of the screen in three dimensions, encasing their prisoners with skin-crawling webs. But the most uproarious setpiece comes when Bilbo, Thorin and the dwarves escape from the wood-elves' prison by hiding in barrels that are washed away down the river – which will bring them in contact with Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) and then the vain, shifty and time-serving Lord of Laketown, enjoyably played by Stephen Fry.
The barrel-chase down the river is a great sequence: a full-tilt headspinning action spectacular with orc against elf against dwarf-and-hobbit. Somehow, the whole movie has this same huge propulsive energy, whooshing the heroes onwards towards their great goal. Despite the dwarves' tough reputations, and Bilbo's expertise in the ignoble art of burglary, their diminutive size always gives them a weirdly childlike air: an air of outraged and unquenchable innocence. Bilbo's showdown with the terrible Smaug himself is of course the great finale, a narrative rhyme to his faceoff with Gollum that concluded the last film, and a satisfyingly exotic event.
And all the time, Jackson's New Zealand landscape has a storybook beauty, a fitting habitat for this story which unfolds in all seasons and times of day: fallen snowflakes gather in beards, the last rays of sunset glints in fur. Jackson depicts this fantasy world with style and gusto, and I'm looking forward to the third film already.
The end of the second movie out of three gives us a chance to revisit that critical question: does The Hobbit story work at this great length? Does epic-i-sation risk making The Hobbit too dour? In the book itself, Tolkien wrote: "Things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway." So perhaps Tolkien anticipated the way in which fantasy can grow exponentially, spinning substance out of itself, and become more and more serious and even solemn. Yet this second Hobbit film has real energy and charm.
Smaug is of course the terrible dragon, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, who has usurped the Lonely Mountain and the dwarf kingdom of Erebor with all its gold, and whom the dwarves and Bilbo Baggins are on a mission to unseat. The "desolation" is the wasteland he has imposed on the country thereabouts, rather than any depression the dragon himself may be feeling. Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) is the alpha dwarf, grimly intent on his destiny: to reclaim his people's heritage and homeland. Martin Freeman is Bilbo, and Freeman's laidback, more naturalistic line-readings make a pleasing and interesting contrast to the more contoured saga-speak that comes out of everyone else's mouth, whether they are speaking English or Elvish or the guttural Orc tongue.
Bilbo is reluctant to confide the truth about the ring in his possession toIan McKellen's Gandalf, who absents himself from the party reasonably early on, leaving that visually striking group looking and feeling vulnerable. Poor little Bilbo playing a non-Snow-White to the even littler dwarves as they trail across the magnificent landscape – but who are in fact tougher, more aggressive and more resilient than him.
A series of bizarre fantasy episodes, in a kind of Jackson-Tolkien-rococo style, brings us closer and closer to the mountain. The dwarves encounter Beorn the skin-changer who agrees, albeit churlishly, to help. The company finds itself lost and somehow spiritually oppressed in the forest of Mirkwood in which they get up close and personal with some colossal and very nasty spiders, which loom out of the screen in three dimensions, encasing their prisoners with skin-crawling webs. But the most uproarious setpiece comes when Bilbo, Thorin and the dwarves escape from the wood-elves' prison by hiding in barrels that are washed away down the river – which will bring them in contact with Bard the Bowman (Luke Evans) and then the vain, shifty and time-serving Lord of Laketown, enjoyably played by Stephen Fry.
The barrel-chase down the river is a great sequence: a full-tilt headspinning action spectacular with orc against elf against dwarf-and-hobbit. Somehow, the whole movie has this same huge propulsive energy, whooshing the heroes onwards towards their great goal. Despite the dwarves' tough reputations, and Bilbo's expertise in the ignoble art of burglary, their diminutive size always gives them a weirdly childlike air: an air of outraged and unquenchable innocence. Bilbo's showdown with the terrible Smaug himself is of course the great finale, a narrative rhyme to his faceoff with Gollum that concluded the last film, and a satisfyingly exotic event.
And all the time, Jackson's New Zealand landscape has a storybook beauty, a fitting habitat for this story which unfolds in all seasons and times of day: fallen snowflakes gather in beards, the last rays of sunset glints in fur. Jackson depicts this fantasy world with style and gusto, and I'm looking forward to the third film already.
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/08/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-review
We have only to wait 4 days for a much anticipated movie, one that is sparking the excitement of Many, MANY Tolkien fans!
-Hobbit
-Hobbit
Monday, 2 December 2013
The Hobbit Desolation Of Smaug: World Premiere.
The famous actors of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug are watching the Premiere as I type this! Just 3 hours ago, the World Premiere of one of our favorite movies took place in Los Angeles (...Or was it Hollywood?) My excitement for The hobbit is up 70% Now! Did you miss the World Premiere like me? Well you can watch the FULL playback of it right here!As some of you may be concerned about the length of this, (1:18:31), I suggest skipping the video every... 10 min or so, so you get the main excitement! The Hobbit is coming!!!
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