Heart of the City by Steenz for December 02, 2012

Likely nothing, this is an accurate depiction of the geek reaction to this movie.

Three movies for LOTR I could understand. That was three books. Three movies for “The Hobbit”? One 250 page book? Can you say overwhelming greed, boys and girls?

LOVE heart’s face in this strip, Lol!

I feel just like Dean! It’s been a Long Long Long wait!!!

The fact that they are adding stuff that wasn’t even in the book and that they went form 2 to 3 movies, makes me lean more towards “Hollywood Greed” than “Artistic Vision.”

That’s a rather dodgy-looking hobbit, althoug anything’s better than a Rankin-Bass hobbit:Looks more like a frog.

Oh boy.

I’m surprised no one commented on the sub-title of the movie. There and Back Again was the original sub-title that Tolkien gave the Hobbit, they have a different sub-title for the movie but I can’t remember what it is right now.

The movie’s subtitle is “An Unexpected Journey.”I had to verify the book’s sub-title because I wasn’t sure if “There and Back Again” was just an important quote or theme and couldn’t imagine why the movie would choose a different (and blander) subtitle. Crazy Hollywood.

The subtitle “An Unexpected Journey” is derived from the title of Chapter One, An Unexpected Party. I should reread it before going to see it. Where is it now? Let me see…

Óvænt heimsókn

Í holu í jörðinni bjó hobbi. Ekki ógeðslegri, rakri of skitugri holu, fullri af ormum og fúkkukykt, og ekki heldur þurri, sendinni of eyðilegri holu þar sem er ekkert til að sitja á og ekkert til að borða. Nei, þetta var nefnilega hobba-hola, og það þýðir að hún var notaleg.

Oops…that’s my Icelandic copy.

I know the Houston Chronicle does…thats where I was introduced to this strip. I own the “Heart of the City” book of strips, too…very hard to find, had to buy it used.

I agree with Heart’s face.