![]() ![]() He makes orcs rampage and stone giants heave mountains at one another, and he dwells especially lovingly on all those dwarves: Balin and Dwalin and Fili and Kili and especially the Dwarf Lord Thorin (Richard Armitage). He plays with extra-super-duper high-frame-rate 3-D technology that makes every detail of Bilbo’s home in Hobbiton sparkle with almost disconcerting smoothness of surface. Working from a simpler, jauntier, more picaresque story about how Bilbo came to possess the One Ring that would later cause such a rumpus, Jackson operates with even more unrelenting genius-nerd filmmaking intensity. ![]() Frodo, you remember, had this ring he needed to return … But never mind, even the unfaithful who can’t tell Ian McKellen’s Gandalf the Grey from that other wizard guy in Harry Potter can follow along easily in this teeming prequel. Gandalf’s goal is to hire Bilbo as the company’s burglar to help them enter the Lonely. In the Shire, the wizard Gandalf the Grey dupes 50-year-old Bilbo into hosting a dinner for Thorin and his band of Dwarves: Balin, Dwalin, Fli, Kli, Dori, Nori, Ori, in, Glin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur. ![]() He was the hairy-footed fellow of passing interest - the uncle of that saga’s central character, Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood). The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Narrative. Devoted followers will recall that Ian Holm embodied Old Bilbo in LOTR. ![]()
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