Bookwyrm wrote:I don't mind Azog's presence at all. I've always felt like the Battle of Five Armies seems fairly random and an obvious plot device to wrap up the conflict between the humans, dwarves, and elves. Azog's obviously going to be the leader of the goblin armies in that battle, giving it a bit more of a cohesive place in the plot.
Azog may be that leader - unless they follow the book and have Azog's son Bolg as the leader of the goblin army.
The Goblins are upon you! Bolg of the North is coming. O Dain! whose father you slew in Moria.
Perhaps Azog gets killed some time during the movie, and Bolg wants revenge for an even more recent reason?
Bookwyrm wrote:Galadriel's teleportation bothered me too, but until PJ demonstates otherwise, I'm going to assume that she was projecting her astral form there or something similar. They did imply in the LotR movies that she and Elrond teleconference via psychic powers.
I've only seen the movie once, but I didn't notice any teleportation - is it not possible that she had recently arrived? Perhaps there's something I didn't notice. They would normally meet for communication, although it's correct that they might then communicate mind to mind, without spoken words.
[Celeborn and Galadriel] had much to speak of with Elrond and with Gandalf, and here they lingered still in converse with their friends. Often long after the hobbits were wrapped in sleep they would sit together under the stars, recalling the ages that were gone and all their joys and labours in the world, or holding council, concerning the days to come. If any wanderer had chanced to pass, little would he have seen or heard, and it would have seemed to him only that he saw grey figures, carved in stone, memorials of forgotten things now lost in unpeopled lands. For they did not move or speak with mouth, looking from mind to mind; and only their shining eyes stirred and kindled as their thoughts went to and fro. (Many Partings, LotR)
Tolkien wrote about this in other texts, and implied that it could be used over a distance.
AslansChild wrote:And if anyone spotted it, could you give me a hint as to where Peter Jackson's cameo is? He said it was within the first 7 or 8 minutes, but I'd like to make sure I see it.
I saw an interview where he says that he's one of the Dwarves of Erebor who flee from Smaug's attack. He's not easy to spot, apparently.
waggawerewolf27 wrote:I haven't made up my mind yet whether or not I like this movie. At first I thought I was just watching a re-run of the first bit of LOTR. Did Elijah Wood, reprising his role as Frodo, actually appear in that section of An Unexpected Journey? Or were his scenes spliced into the movie from screen cuts of Fellowship of the Ring?
Elijah Wood came back to have a role - a rather small one - in The Hobbit. So the scenes where he appears, were filmed for this movie.
Edit:
Ian Holm came back for those scenes, too.