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Originally posted by Eloi
lol.

You're kind of the slow type, aren't you Adumarwen? Or maybe just the type that likes to talk a lot (or post) but doesn't like to read very much.

But anyway!

Yeah I downloaded the trailer too. I did think it was very odd that they'd be releasing a trailer for a movie that isn't going to be realeased until 2006 (I'm pretty sure that they didn't have a trailer out for return of the king out in 2001, and it's not so farfetched to announce the opening of a movie 3 years later for the final part of a trilogy with the promise of the first two installments yearly as a justification).

The gratious enlightenment of turin notwithstanding, one could piece together the fact that the trailer is homemade piecemeal:

It starts with New Line Cinema, the source of which could be one of many movies.

Next we have good old Gandalf giddy-upping his horsey through The Shire, walking through the gate, and a-knock-knock-knocking with his trusty staff on Bilbo's itty bitty hobbit hole door (don't you just love the shape on knob location? I always wondered what it would be like having your knob placed in the middle vertically -- all courtesy of lotr part 1.

Next we have the scene with our bow-happy wood elves, I believe from lotr 2, followed by the oh-so-purty cloudly mountain hide-away, the drippity drip water, and what a pretty friggin night, complimented by the good ol' full moon seen through the trees scene! -- I'm thinking the pond-scene was from the beginning of part 1 (the quicky review of bilbo's misadventures), the mountains and the moon could have been from either, but I'm thinking the mountains (since they aren't of the snowy persuasion) where featured in the beginning of part 2, and I'm open to input on the moon, though I'm throwing a couple cents towards the scene where our hobbitty friends Mary and lil' P were out late at night carousing with the treants!

We're then presented with bilbo's grubby little hand unclamping on his bloody precious (at which point we wonder if he ever washing them), which I believe also came from the events preceding this episode catch up from part 1, but for all I know that could have been Frodo's nasty little end of limb!?

Okay, now we see what is supposed to be the dragon entering the lake (presented purely by his tail), but I don't recall that from any of the lotrs, and I'm actually leaning towards the idea that it is a scene from one of the sci-fi movies -- maybe someone can help me out on this -- where they have those scarry reptile like things that slip up under your shirt dand parasite onto your spine and maybe even a lil' loving into the medula oblongata (sp?) for a grand ol' end result of controlling your mind, with the intention of freaking out your girlfriend, spawning a relative to possess your neighbor, and eventually if all goes well, pinki, try to take over the world!

I'm not sure about the claw, is it supposed to be the dragons? Is that from dragon slayer? Good job turin on recognizing that I'm assuming all the dragon footage came from there.

We get another shot of Gandalf toting staff, which I won't even take a stab at the precise source of, but I'm getting ahead of myself -- first we see meany-pants dragon (Doesn't even look like Smaug to me! Seems a whole lot less inteligent too, even if he did supposedly just wake up). Burn village burn! Those guys are way too big to be hobbits, look at the purty ring portruding from the muddy river-bottom -- wonder from whence THAT footage came -- more fire! fire! fire! uh-huh-huh, hey beavis, look at the dragon head, then the supposed Bilbo standing in front of the supposed Smaugy getting errect and ready to throw down, of which stuck out most was the horrible hair-do -- looked like a Gene Wilder job -- Follow that with some more classy lotr 1 ripoffs, as the ring goes clingity-clingity-clang, (insert dragon expressing fact that he had Mexican food with lots of peppers for dinner, beeeeeelllllllccccccchhhh), clang clang cling along the mountainside, dang -- watch that ring go! -- have gravity, will travel. Okay, now it's getting old, throw in "The Hobbit" in almost matching text with the dircted by Peter Jackson, Ian and Ian with the biggie eagle, more original: "Smaug Awakens", a date, and then, my favorite part of the credits!

"made by steve latham [email protected]"