Sunday, April 27, 2014

The new name of the third 'Hobbit' movie


The Daily Mail made a fairly big deal about the change of the name of the third Hobbit movie from "There and Back Again" to "The Battle of the Five Armies".

The third Hobbit movie is given bombastic new title The Battle Of The Five Armies... to replace the low-key There And Back Again

Regarding this, the chapter containing the pivotal and climactic events of the book is entitled "The Clouds Burst", and I don't think that would make a lot of sense to the general public.  And in the Tolkien histories, the climactic battle is indeed called The Battle of the Five Armies (here's a reference that shows this factoid).    After all, "The Desolation of Smaug" wasn't a chapter title either, it was a region shown on the map next to the Lonely Mountain.

So even if it is bombastic, it also makes a lot of sense.  And I'm looking forward to seeing the battle that I first read about when I was 11 years old.


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