Any new casting rumers yet?

Not really a cast announcement, but I heard that Rick Astley would be doing the soundtrack.

Rumors drive me CRAZY! Maybe we should have a facts thread and then a rumors thread so petty and I don't have to be angered by rubbish!!! (good or bad)

Saoirse Ronan has been cast as Itaril.

For what it's worth, the latest round of news reports doesn't actually say that she will be Itaril, just that she's been cast as someone, and that someone has been rumoured to be Itaril recently. Scant hope, I know, but better than nothing. Although she'll almost certainly end up being an original character anyway since Galadriel was already cast.

Good news Petty! Thanks to your our forum met the quota for laughably overblown analogies really early this quarter. Thank you for your service.

[quote:js0otffe]I think PJ just has a crush on her! As to who she will play, it seems unlikely she will just be a female elf or hobbit standing in the background, sadly. But I'm sure the PJ fans will insist PJ knows best- after all every time I read TH I find myself thinking, 'yeah its good but what it really needs is a crap romance story between two elves clumsily forced upon it.'[/quote:js0otffe] Exactly as I would have written the screenplay! (Though I would have picked Kate Beckinsale for Itaril ). [b:js0otffe]GB[/b:js0otffe]

 

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I appreciate that peter jackson will want to keep as many of the lotr actors as possible for the hobbit but not at the expense of accuracy as he needs to keep as close to the book as he possibly can

If certain people on this site cant get over the fact that changes will be made then don't go and see the film, (...) .........

 

For myself, I expect changes will be made in a film adaptation, and I've no problem with that much -- but what those changes are, or even might be in theory (if one chooses to speculate based on a rumor, for instance), and why they are made, is another matter.

 (...), or say your piece once and don't bring everyone who enjoys a quality film experience down. 

 

Well, can't people with favorable opinions (about Jackson's films in general, or something specific) voice those opinions more than once?  

Of course they can Galin.  However such vicious and nasty remarks made in previous posts are getting out of control and don't really fit in with this sites purpose. The same people, over and over again seem to love to bag everything that PJ does and has done and its getting really boring. 

 

If remarks get out of control with respect to being vicious or nasty, that's one thing (for the moderators to police I guess), but you asked certain people -- who in your opinion can't get over the fact that changes will be made -- to say their piece once, in a comment separated from your first paragraph (the first paragraph being about the not very nice remarks, as you described them)...

 ... you may have been referring to only certain remarks here too, but your end comment might seem to extend to people who simply disagree with Jackson's alterations (not that you intended this). 

In any case it's not all that unexpected that the same people who disagree with many of Jackson's choices for The Lord of the Rings might again disagree with at least some of his choices for The Hobbit. 

 

On a different note: I could not agree more with Ringdrotten:

There's a Norwegian translation of LotR that handles the difference in speech between different regions and peoples incredibly well, it's a shame you don't understand Norwegian because it really is a great translation

"Ringdrotten" (LOTR translated into Nynorsk/"New Norwegian" is a magnificent piece of work, and it combines the works of my two heroes Tolkien and Ivar Aasen. Tolkien would have not only approved, but applauded this translation, I am sure of it! 

Hello!

Haven't posted here yet, simply because I couldn't get the new password to work when the two forums merged and we got a new forum up and running again before I even tried a second time! But here I am, and perhaps I'll pop in a little more often and join in on your discussions too

 

"Ringdrotten" (LOTR translated into Nynorsk/"New Norwegian" is a magnificent piece of work, and it combines the works of my two heroes Tolkien and Ivar Aasen. Tolkien would have not only approved, but applauded this translation, I am sure of it!" - Amarië

He would have loved it And to run into a fan of both Ringdrotten and Ivar Aasen on an Internet forum - fantastic

Brego I fear my brother Petty is almost certainly the main one to which you have found objection. Partly the problem arises from these threads being lifted and deposited, and for some reason the posts are often not even in the right order, and many of the posters on the old forum (and still on its new version) are characters as much as people. You kind of have to get to know them to get the sarcasm and self deprecation. Insults at anyone on a personal level, PJ included they are certainly not.

For example Petty often calls PJ's wife and writing partner by the collective term 'The Coven', not very flattering to women on the surface, but the use is a double-meaning. Both the genuine belief on his part (which I share) that the scripts as adaptations were very poor, and as a reflection on the sort of people who would simply reason this was because women wrote it. So by using the term he is both critiquing the script and lambasting the notions of anti-female views by using an over the top term to describe them and an over the top character (Petty) to proclaim them..

Understandabley it takes a bit of time to know the character of Petty (and others in these lifted threads) well enough to see this, out of context as these threads are they will unfortunately be open to the sort of interpretation you have put upon them.

You seem a more than reasonable lass, Pretty. I agree with you. If one can't discuss ones likes and dislikes, or provide ones thoughts, what kind of forum would this be? We might then call it "Big Brother" Planet, I guess. I'm sure this is a better forum than that.