HOBBIT - Dwarf Pics

[Mark CMG]

There's an interview with Richard Armitage who plays Thorin Oakenshield along with a photo of him in costume here -

The Hobbit: Richard Armitage Discusses His Role as Thorin Oakenshield

 

[Pbartender]

There's an interview with Richard Armitage who plays Thorin Oakenshield along with a photo of him in costume here...

Turns out that's a Photoshop job... It's Gimli with Armitage's face and the beard and hair turned gray.

 

[Phaezen]

An image of Thorin is up at TheOneRing.net as well as an ensamble of the thirteen dwarves

 

[MarkB]

Nice.

I'm assuming that's Orcrist he's wielding. Cool sword, either way.

 

[Phaezen]

Nice.

I'm assuming that's Orcrist he's wielding. Cool sword, either way.

That is indeed Orcrist

The overall look seems to be more in the darker LOTR style than the lighter style favoured in The Hobbit (book)

 

[cyderak]

Thanks for the Thorin pic Phaezen.

 

[Mark CMG]

Turns out that's a Photoshop job... It's Gimli with Armitage's face and the beard and hair turned gray.

Well, they got me.


Thanks for adding the real one, Phaezen!

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Oy, that's a lot of dwarfage!

 

[Ebon Shar]

I dislike the Thorin interpretation more than I can express. In fact, I much prefer the photo-shopped image. Still, I'll see the movie with an open mind and expect it to be good, but that image is about as far from what I see in my mind as you can get. The brothers Hildebrandt must be spinning in their graves (assuming they are dead, of course).

 

[Dioltach]

I dislike the Thorin interpretation more than I can express. In fact, I much prefer the photo-shopped image. Still, I'll see the movie with an open mind and expect it to be good, but that image is about as far from what I see in my mind as you can get. The brothers Hildebrandt must be spinning in their graves (assuming they are dead, of course).

I'm looking forward to the movies more now that I've seen the pictures of the dwarves. I think Peter Jackson might just have hit on something: these dwarves are bad-ass. The thirteen of them are off on a quest across mountains and forests to challenge a dragon and re-establish their kingdom. Seriously, who would you rather have along for a job like that, this lot or the dwarves in the Hildebrandt picture?

I think the audience have to take them seriously in order for the movies to work properly. (And I think that with the dwarves being less of a comic relief scenes like the incident with the trolls will be much improved.)