(Evangeline Lilly and Kili: to be titled This Will Not End Well. Also, that one moment when she's healing Kili with the etholas, and she begins to glow like she's radioactive? PERHAPS A BIT MUCH.)
Not related perhaps to some similar glowing by Arwen, which itself I suppose was reference to Frodo seeing Glorfindel "as he is upon the other side" or some such in "Flight to the Ford"? (Haven't seen DoS yet; don't worry about spoilers.)
TL;DR- better than the first one; this entire series should have been about half the length, with less of the kinetic battles and angsty backstory, and more Bilbo.
Yeah, that's kind of what I worried about when I first heard this was going to be 3 movies. I know prose can take a lot of screen time to film thoroughly, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily right to do so, and it doesn't seem to even be what PJ's done (film as literally as possible). I would be less bothered with length if there were less new invention, I think.
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Date: 2013-12-16 08:14 am (UTC)Not related perhaps to some similar glowing by Arwen, which itself I suppose was reference to Frodo seeing Glorfindel "as he is upon the other side" or some such in "Flight to the Ford"? (Haven't seen DoS yet; don't worry about spoilers.)
TL;DR- better than the first one; this entire series should have been about half the length, with less of the kinetic battles and angsty backstory, and more Bilbo.
Yeah, that's kind of what I worried about when I first heard this was going to be 3 movies. I know prose can take a lot of screen time to film thoroughly, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily right to do so, and it doesn't seem to even be what PJ's done (film as literally as possible). I would be less bothered with length if there were less new invention, I think.