Hello all, I have had an interest in dabbling with a The Hobbit speedrun just for fun, I'm getting hung up on being able to long jump with the walking stick. I'm using Xemu to emulate the game and it will not allow me to configure my button inputs (as far as I know) and cannot figure out which buttons allow me to long jump. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Ok ok I know a lot of people dislike a lot from these films and I agree with a lot of it and this will be the 100000th post about this.

But my biggest problem with the Hobbit is that I absolutely love some scenes as much as I absolutely hate other scenes.

It would be so much easier if all of it was terrible so I could ignore these films altogether, but instead we did get absolute bangers such as the first conversation between Bilbo and Gandalf, Smaug and Bilbos conversation and pitch perfect casting for Thranduil to name a few, which imo come very close to the LotR trilogy in quality at times.

But on the other hand we also are stuck with stuff like Azog going from looking very good in the first movie during some scenes to god awful in the second movie (not to mention he teleports around Rings of Power-style) and even worse in the third movie and Tauriel getting more screentime than any Dwarf apart from Thorin.

It's just.. such a weird creative process. Can't wrap my brain around how someone can make such great and also such bad story and art decisions lol.

I wonder how these films could have been without all the unnecessary filler. I feel it could have been a trilogy, but just not three movies of three hours. Three movies of 100/120 minutes would have netted the studios the same amount of money (more even, considering shorter movies can screen more often) while having 40% more time to further polish the scenes that are in fact needed for the story minus the bloat. 🤔

I feel like everyone would win in that scenario.

Also, why on earth did the theatrical release not include Thorins funeral, but did include Alfrids golden bosom? What were they even doing?

My favorite thing about Hobbits is no other race knows how they work. Bilbo turns invisible and constantly pop out of nowhere and the dwarves just go "Yeah sounds about right, Gandalf did say they're very sneaky."

Frodo gets stabbed by troll spear and survives unharmed and Aragorn's goes "Oh right Hobbits are supposed to be very resilient, that checks out. Very impressive!" And nobody thinks to ask if he's wearing some kind of armor.

I need to know where the line is. HOW WEIRD DOES A HOBBIT NEED TO GET BEFORE THEY GET CALLED OUT??!!!

Does anyone know where you can watch the extendeds? Preferably free, pirate works best! Im not from US, so I don't have the extendeds on max.

Hey, as I said, I'm looking for stories in which Thorin looks like he does in the book, like white hair and so on. I read the book myself a while ago and never found a fanfic in which Thorin looked like he did in the book with white hair and so on. Thank you very much in advance

1)The eagles couldn't take Thorin's company to the Lonely Mountain because they were afraid that someone could shoot them in Laketown, alright... But if they just flew around the lake? I know that the eagles aren't a taxi service, but they were fond of Gandalf because he cured their leader, and they literally said that they would gladly help the company, but just won't pass above the lake, that's it.

2)but then, if they were really afraid of being hurt by an arrow, why did they join the battle of the five armies? Didn't they think they could get hurt by the orcs' weapons? Or did they like learn to be more brave or something?

I think we just have to admit that the eagles are just selfish lmao. Or I'm just an ignorant and I'm saying a lot of dumb things. If you can give me an answer please don't harass me, I know I'm ignorant, I'm just trying to learn qwq

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It answers so many questions and fills in so many gaps in the story. I seriously have wasted my time with the regular versions. Which scenes stick out to you?

Rewatching the movies. I’ve given up thinking them as being based on the books and rather just their own three movies that function as a prequel to the LOTR movies and it’s a lot more bearable. However, there’s still a lot of critiques I have even just thinking of them as their own separate movies not based on the book or trying to be based on the book. And one major complaint I have is that the whole movie seems to be a chase scene. The dwarf company is constantly being chased in the movies and it so redundant I can’t stand it. Chase after chase after chase. I have many more but this one bothers me the most because it seems this is what the movie is centered on. Chase chase chase. Fight and chase and run and chase and fight and chase and run and chase.

I want to make this charcuterie board, but I’d rather not have a giant mound of a cheese ball substance. What are some other things I can use to make the hill? Also why I’m here, any ideas for grass other than green dyed cream cheese?

1977! I can't edit the title sorry. I know it's controversial with a lot of people saying it's abysmal but it's always been one of my childhood favorites.

When you speak of Audiobook versions of The Hobbit, most will think of the new fantastic version by Andy Serkis, or the classic version by Rob Ingles, or maybe even the BBC Radio Dramatization, but I think few will mention, or perhaps have even heard of the Audiobook version done by English actor: Martin Shaw!

Now before I begin, I must stress that his version is ABRIDGED, which when it comes to audiobooks is a bit of a dirty word these days, though I can confidently state that very little is left out, you still get every major story beat, you still get Beorn, and the journeys through the mountains and the forest. It's all there. In fact if you hadn't told me it was abridged I wouldn't have thought it was.

Back on track, giving some context and backstory. I was a kid in the late 90s when I received as a gift Martin Shaw's audiobook, on 4 cassette tapes. I had already read the book before this, and was familiar with the Rankin Bass animated film, so I was already a fan. This was my first ever audiobook, and I loved it. Martin Shaw has a deep timbre to his voice that just feels like comfort food (not too unlike Andy Serkis to be fair), he gives life to the characters without over dramatizing them, and likewise also avoids becoming too monotone or droll in his narration. This version not only further realized my love for Tolkien (in a time before the Peter Jackson films were even out, but also a life-long love of audiobooks as well. It was in fact my pursuit of a digital version of this particular audiobook to replace my aging and worn cassettes that I first made an account with Audible (which is the easiest place to acquire/listen to this version.)

While I fully understand that Andy Serkis is now the de-facto king of audio narration for this series, and I'd be hard-pressed to make a convincing argument to not give his version a try, the child in me yearns to laud my original hero, Martin Shaw, so that his still worthy contribution shall not be forgotten.

So I made this post, both as a way to hear from others who experienced this audiobook and get their thoughts, and also to bring it to light for fans as well, and anyone contemplating a re-read at some point, that Martin Shaw is well worth the time and effort.

So this has been boggling my mind for a while, but I've never figured out an answer: How exactly does the Great Goblin rank in the "hierarchy" of the Orcs, if there is such thing? Is he solely the king of the one cave, or is he also the boss of other Orcs like Azog?