Comment on Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch

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• sc2pirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s been a minute since I’ve read the books, so feel free to correct me, but doesnt Gandalf ask Aragorn to find Gollum after Bilbo’s birthday? Then they imprison him with the elves who feel pity for him and let him climb a tree. Then he won’t come down or something and gets away.

  I assumed this is what the hunt for Gollum is, but I haven’t looked at anything to confirm this.

  “Precious, it’s been called that before…”

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  • yggdar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That is what I remember too.

    1. Bilbo meets Gollum in The Hobbit
    2. Gandalf gets suspicious and sends Aragorn to capture Gollum
    3. Gollum gets captured and imprisoned with the Elves
    4. Gollum escapes
    5. Gollum reappears during The Fellowship of the Ring

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    • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s also captured by Saurons forces at some point before being let out to find the gang in Moria

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right, right, right. I forgot about that detail. It feels like, again, they don’t though, right? Gollum is found by orcs (?) and interrogated before sneaking out and eventually stalking Frodo.

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    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He didn’t sneak out, they let him go so they could tail him and find The Ring.

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  • keyez@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think that’s more where this will lie, the elves or someone hunts him after he escapes but he gets away until Bilbo runs into him.

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• doublepepperoni@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This takes place during the 17-year time skip between Bilbo’s birthday party and when Frodo returns home to discover an agitated Gandalf in his home asking if the Ring’s safe. What, you didn’t think it felt like Gandalf going to read that diary in Gondor took 17 years??? Yeah, the movies kinda streamlined and simplified that part.

  It’s wild they’re retroactively adding shit they just completely excised in the original film adaptations. What’s next, a side movie about the Hobbits encountering the barrow wights and Tom Bombadil before they reach Bree? A movie about the Scouring of the Shire?

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was seriously 17 years in the book? Wow yeah, the movie made it seem like a week max.

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hear the RoP S2 already fucked Bombadil pretty bad. I couldn’t make it past half of ep 1, though. 🤮🥲

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    • doublepepperoni@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair, the Amazon show is an entirely separate adaptation and has no relation to the Jacksonverse.

      I would assume Warner Brothers would fuck him up in a different way. Judging from the quality of the writing in the Hobbit trilogy I would assume they’d turn Tom Bombadil into a stoner stereotype who also farts constantly or something

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      • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        no relation

        Yeah, that’s only one of the problems that the whole set of fuckeries share between them.

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• plinky@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nah, that’s a period when gandalf fucked off for 17 years (in books) (or 2 minutes of montage to library in movie) to find what the ring was and returned to shire to make frodo go away

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I read fellowship after seeing the movie, the movie is what got me into the books and I read all of them as soon as I was done with the Fellowship movie because I had to know what happened, and I was like, 12. Anyway, it made it really interesting to me because I was like 17 YEARS?! Gandalf was gone for YEARS?! Then he just showed up again one day and was like “hey remember me it’s been 17 years anyway the end of the world is coming and you gotta fuck off to Mordor now”.

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    • plinky@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But don’t forget to spend half a year to make a cover story by buying house near the woods, good cover is very important or nazgul nsa will look at spending records and realize you are gone (thus you have a ring, according to statistical models)

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