Tag: botfa spoilers

leepace:

The horse Lee rode in The Hobbit, Moose (the one they CGI’d into his elk), WAS 18 HANDS HIGH. For those of you who don’t speak horse, that means his horse was 6ft tall to his withers which is the highest point between his shoulders. He actually makes Lee look smol, how is this possible??

frodolass:

radiorcrist:

One great thing that came out of the BTS of BOTFA is that we now have an image of what Dis and Frerin looks like! 

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And we’re lead to the conclusion that they got this image of Dis from their version of Cate Blanchett as a dwarrowdam.

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I didn’t know I wanted this so badly until I saw it. @determamfidd, have you seen this yet?

*ron weasley voice* BLOODY HELL!

Acorn-related symbolism realisation omfg

okay, bear in mind that I still haven’t seen the extended Life-Ruiner. But I hear that Bilbs plants the acorn in Dale. And I wondered – whu, but why?

I know that for a lot of people, the acorn symbolises love (and my bagginshield-shipping heart rejoices) and I totally think that’s awesome too and this isn’t meant to stomp on that interpretation. It’s just that I had to think again what it was that Bilbo says when he first reveals the acorn:

One day it’ll grow. And every time I look at it, I’ll remember. Remember everything that happened: the good, the bad… and how lucky I am that I made it home.

This hit me like a freight train… 

Guys. 

GUYS.

The acorn is memory. He’s planting it where he doesn’t have to see it every day. He’s not planting it at home, at Bag End. He’s planting it far, far away from the Shire. He can’t look at it without a ridic long journey. 

Bilbo is purposefully trying to forget*. He doesn’t want to think of ‘the good, the bad, and how “”lucky”” [he] is that [he] made it home.’ He doesn’t want to remember. 

THIS IS THE BAGGINSHIELD EQUIVALENT OF ‘IF THIS IS LOVE I DO NOT WANT IT, TAKE IT AWAY, PLEASE’

EDIT: okay, I am informed that they still don’t show where Bilbs plants the acorn, though I just checked and there was apparently a scene shot of him planting it in Dale (from the Hobbit Companion Book)

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*Bilbo’s later memory-problems now 905725% more tragic, thanks so much BOTFA