Reacting to The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug FIRST TIME WATCHING - Part 1/2 

To be fair, it's not much different from the whole Sauron/Saruman confusion many have had over the years.

@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy in fact in one of polish translations of Lord of the Rings book there is a mistake of replacing Sauron with Saruman in the quote about creatures lingering in the depths of the World. I found it and it my friend send an email to the publisher and they will correct it :)

It's easier to remember the dwarves' names by the way they are in groups - all the ones with similar names are brothers of each other. Fili and Kill; Balin and Dwalin; Dori, Nori, and Ori; Oin and Gloin; Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur. The books describe them as all having long beards - not different beard and hair styles for each one. I recommend the Rankin & Bass cartoon version.

Other actors didn't know he would be told to sprint so the look on their faces is genuine.

@@juhanisirkia3618 hahaha Bilbo's face has me dying

It is so hilarious to just see him slam into the door🤣

I try, for I want to understand as most as possible :) Thank you! ♥

@@DuaffyMS I thought you were going to say gandalf stuff like "I try, and I will try until I am trying no longer" 😂

@@atrevino90 Good one lol :)

Can’t wait till part two you won’t be disappointed

Balin is too old to be his cousin, more like his uncle.

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p First cousin once removed, technically (as Thorin, Balin/Dwalin, and Óin/Glóin were all first cousins)... but that's a mouthful to say for most people.

@Robertson Thirdly But Balin is like grandpa to Gimli...

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p My oldest cousin is old enough to be my dad (indeed, his daughter is only 7 months younger than I am, and his son is only 6 months younger than my sister). There's a 12-year age gap between his dad (my uncle) and my own. Sometimes familial connections are a bit complicated.

Actually, he had seven. Gloin is is father, Oin, his uncle. Balin and Dwalin are first cousins of Oin and Gloin. And all four of these are third cousins to Thorin Oakenshield. And Fili and Kili are the nephews of Thorin, which makes them fourth cousins of Gimli.

While some parts are 'inspired' by Unfinished Tales, they didn't have the rights to use the material directly. Also, it's only a few parts; most of the extra material is the invention of Jackson/Walsh/Boyens/Del Toro.

Well, the White Council was briefly mentioned in The Hobbit. But no details were given. And it was not revealed in the hobbit that the Necromancer was Sauron. That was developed later for LOTR.

@verbaluk1, for example, Tauriel. Although I for one am glad that Jackson the Pink included her.

its not only because they turned him into a Wyvern

@@danilooliveira6580 In the Middle Ages, often dragons were depicted with two legs and two wings. "Wyvern" is a word used for two legged dragons since the 16th or 17th century, and means viper (a kind of snake) just like "dragon" comes from the latin draco which also means snake... so wyverns are dragons and Smaug is awesome.

@@Ryuvern historically Wyverns and Dragons were used interchangeably, it was mostly a regional thing, what a dragon looked like could change completely depending on who you asked. in modern literature every Wyvern is a Dragon, but not all Dragons are Wyvern. as for Lord of the Rings, Smaug is canonically depicted as a classical 6 limbed dragon, there is even artwork from Tolkien himself that depict him like that (in the damn map he is 6 limbed). Smaug was even 6 limbed on the cinematic version of the first movie, they changed it later in production for... some reason. its important because Glaurung, the first Dragon, had no wings, it was more like a huge lizard that could breath fire, and others were just huge serpents, like Scatha, and then later dragons grew wings from their back, like Smaug and Ancalagon.

What about Red Death from How to train your Dragon?

In short, he was a geopolitician.

He orchestrated these events to make sure Smaug is busy and can not assist Sauron whilst the wizards were dealing with him in Dol Guldur.

@@sovex9331 They wanted to shot also a scene of Gandalf vision while he held the palantir of Dol Guldur where Smaug landed in front of big army, leading them to war ;)

@@sovex9331 That is how the movie explains it but Tolkien did not write it with that in mind. The Hobbit was meant to be a simple children's book. He loosely fit The Hobbit into his fantasy world and then after The Hobbit became a hit he started writing The Lord of th Rings and integrated them more into the fantasy world of which The Silmarillion was created by his notes on the fantasy. These movies try to fill in the blanks.

Bolg is quite a sight for sore eyes

@@captaindc3889 or a sight to make eyes sore...

Pretty much

They used the term 'spawn' in the movie, since no one is too sure as to how Orcs truly procreate (and likely don't want to think about it)... 🤨

@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy Oh man, there goes my breakfast.

And in ROTK is the pirate who gets shot by Legolas

@@djplou Yes you are right I forgot about that cameo. The one where Aragorn said put it next to the captains ear or something and Gimli tap the bow making him hit a guy.

@@djplou And in The Two Towers he's among the rohirrim throwing a spear in Helm's Deep.

He's also one of the Dwarves fleeing the mountain in AUJ.

Yeah, she's the first reactor I've seen to not show his/her reaction to that part.

It was Gandalf. He wanted the dragon gone. Also he wanted the mountain in the hand of the dwarfes rather than mordors. Same reason why he chose to leave the fellowship of the ring to kill the Balrog in Moria. He wanted to take possible and very powerful allies from Sauron.

Scary, posh, ginger, Mary Anne? Think that's the rest. 😁

Creepy, Slappy, Dumpy, Gropey, Sleazy, Crassful, & Mock.

🤗 haha thank you! I'm glad you enjoy the piggy sounds :D Hope you had a great day! ♥

@@DuaffyMS You are incredible

Cardolan, Arthedain and Rhudaur were 3 parts of Arnor - the norther kingdom. Gondor was the southern kingdom - that is why Aragorn is the king of the Reunited Kingdom. Even before the hobbits were given the territories for the Shire by king Argeleb II in 1601 of the 3d age (the Fellowship's journey is set in 3018-19 of that age), the kingdom of Arnor was separated for 3 parts. The Shire was in Arthedain province, the most western province of Arnor, and its king was Argeleb II. Cardonal was on the south and Rhudaur on the north.

@@TallisKeeton yup, I know that :) I didn't write that Rhudaur never existed. Only about its depiction in movie being wrong because no mountain range was there. Only some hills :)

@@bartoszrebelski8571 I know :) I just wanted to add more random-fandom facts :)

It was in "Unfinished Tales" chapter when Gandalf told the Fellowship (it was mostly Frodo and Gimli who were interesten in this story) - when they were resting after the war in Minas Tirith - about how he wanted to do smt with Smaug that the dragon should not be useful to Sauron.

Bard basically just shows up, talks to a bird, then kills Smaug.

@@augustandjune pretty much

@@augustandjune Wow really? That's pretty lame.

This should have never been a trilogy. The book was only around 300 pages long, so they had to make up a lot of stuff to full out the runtime for the movies. It lost a bit of its charm from trying to be an epic when It was just a simple children's story, but it would have worked perfectly well as that if it had been one 3 hour film.

@@angramainyu9220 it's a children's story. And even that the world wasn't fully developed yet.

To be honest, I was expecting it to be an invention. For a children's book, I doubted Tolkien wrote "I could have anything down my trousers" haha :)

@@DuaffyMS just fan service I guess (Peter Jackson's vision) 😁 among other events that are a little different in the books.

Tauriel was mainly added to give a bit of estrogen to the story (as were Sigrid and Tilda, Bard's daughters); there isn't a single female character in the book, after all.

grishnakh They most assuredly did NOT make him a Gary Stu.

While Legolas was *not* in the _Hobbit_ book, it's silly to think he wouldn't have still been part of the Woodland Realm at the time of the Quest of Erebor. And while he probably shouldn't have been as prominent as he was in these movies, he was no more of a Gary Stu than he was in LOTR (arguably less, since they showed Bolg having given him a bloody nose). 🙄

I am doing my best to upload the videos at specific times (Monday, Thursday and Saturday), since for the moment I don't have the resources to upload more content :( I'm sorry

@@DuaffyMS I got it. No problem. İ just wanna say that your reaction is amazing and we cant wait. :)) Love you. Thanks.

As they said in an interview, they're basically the William and Harry of Middle-Earth -- a perfect analogy. I only wish Fíli was as well-developed as Kíli...

ComeOnIsSuchAJoy I agree I really wish Fíli was developed the same because it seems like he gets thrown to the side compared to Kíli but they are close brothers and should’ve gotten the same development

@@iriscabej598 Glóin got surprisingly little development, too, given his connections to LOTR.

ComeOnIsSuchAJoy that’s also true they just mention that Gimli is his son and that is basically all he gets besides a few one liners. The films aren’t bad if you hold them on their own separate from the book but some characters deserved more development

I always see people hate him quickly due to his pride but he has trust issues due to the things he has been through and he has to maintain this pride and composure because the last time he sought for help, Thranduill and his elves walked away. Not that I dislike Thranduill lol but that effected him. He loves his family and his friends you can see that throughout he truly cares for them I agree!!

Thank you so much for the clarify! :D

@@DuaffyMS *Clarification; 'clarify' is a verb. I realize English isn't your first language (what is, BTW?), so please don't take this as a slight to you. Just trying to help.

@@ComeOnIsSuchAJoy Not taking it at all, you guys are helping me and I appreciate it a lot!! :D

I think Tolkien would have liked your pronunciations. Not how an English speaker would naturally think to say them, but I'm pretty sure Tolkien would have approved pronouncing them that way.