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[Chaac]

Awesome.

[Stefancos]

Great new sig

[alicebrallice]

[BloodBoal]

Why do I have the feeling another member is going to use the Gandalf on this banner as his avatar?

[Ren]

if he does, he better put the drawing back soon ;-)

[Stefancos]

Me?

[Ren]

yes

[Stefancos]

I've used used Gandalf as my avatar...and i never will.

[Ro Sajooc]

In my opinion, the banner is impressive

[alicebrallice]

your opinion is right.

[Jason LeBlanc]

Wow. That banner is awesome. The most promising thing to come out of the marketing department since the trailer

[KK.]

I saw this on Steef's sig and was wondering where the hell he got it from (cause I wanted a closer look obviously). And I finally checked this thread again. Wow! That's amazing. And as Jason said, it's the best thing to have come out of marketing since the trailer. All of its beautiful. And Beorn looks so awesome!

[BloodBoal]

Higher quality (and resolution) version to be found here. That Gandalf is definitely for Incanus' avatar!

[KK.]

I was going to take it for myself. But I have no idea how you guys make your avatars so long in shape (Jason, Alice, etc). The shape keeps getting condensed into a square.

Yes, I'm not very good at using this board's features.

[Jason LeBlanc]

You don't have to do anything special. I just used the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows 7 to take the portion of the image I wanted, saved that to my desktop, then just uploaded it as my avatar and I was done

[Luke Skywalker]

why all the eagles have they tails widespread? It makes sense on the nearest one as it¡s in the posture of landing.. but the rest ALL of them that are supposed to be flying straight...

and the second, those wing proportions look like a buteo hawk...


Otherwise, awesome banner.

[KK.]

You don't have to do anything special. I just used the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows 7 to take the portion of the image I wanted, saved that to my desktop, then just uploaded it as my avatar and I was done

Alright, but the problem is they often end up being too big. How did you get your avatars to be as big as they are?

[alicebrallice]

You don't have to do anything special. I just used the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows 7 to take the portion of the image I wanted, saved that to my desktop, then just uploaded it as my avatar and I was done

Alright, but the problem is they often end up being too big. How did you get your avatars to be as big as they are?

try http://pixlr.com/editor/

there you can quickly and easily crop, resize etc

[BloodBoal]

why all the eagles have they tails widespread? It makes sense on the nearest one as it¡s in the posture of landing.. but the rest ALL of them that are supposed to be flying straight...

and the second, those wing proportions look like a buteo hawk...

That's because these are not eagles, these are Neo Apparicus abombasticuses

[Wojo]

Does it matter if the Eagles of Middle-Earth are anatomically correct in this fantasy world? They're a race of super-intelligent, long-lived super-birds that hail from Valinor and so may have more in common with those ethereal spirits than their fine feathered mortal counterparts.

Are the orcs scientifically accurate? The trolls? The hobbits? How about the oliphaunts? Or the giant spiders borne from Shelob?

[KK.]

You don't have to do anything special. I just used the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows 7 to take the portion of the image I wanted, saved that to my desktop, then just uploaded it as my avatar and I was done

Alright, but the problem is they often end up being too big. How did you get your avatars to be as big as they are?

try http://pixlr.com/editor/

there you can quickly and easily crop, resize etc

Thanks Alice!

[Jason LeBlanc]

You don't have to do anything special. I just used the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows 7 to take the portion of the image I wanted, saved that to my desktop, then just uploaded it as my avatar and I was done

Alright, but the problem is they often end up being too big. How did you get your avatars to be as big as they are?

Your avatar has to be no more than 150 pixels WIDE, but can be some absurd amount HIGH ( I forget the exact number). If you go over 150 pixels wide, it usually won't accept your upload

[KK.]

You don't have to do anything special. I just used the "Snipping Tool" that comes with Windows 7 to take the portion of the image I wanted, saved that to my desktop, then just uploaded it as my avatar and I was done

Alright, but the problem is they often end up being too big. How did you get your avatars to be as big as they are?

Your avatar has to be no more than 150 pixels WIDE, but can be some absurd amount HIGH ( I forget the exact number). If you go over 150 pixels wide, it usually won't accept your upload

Ahh. Thanks Jason, I'll keep that in mind.

So with these latest pics, we know that the barrel scene is probably where the film will cut off. But that doesn't leave very much for the 2nd part. I wonder what they're planning for the sequel then...

[SF1_freeze]

What a great banner! It's like getting 11 new posters all at once . I really like the style and the colors in it!

[Luke Skywalker]

Does it matter if the Eagles of Middle-Earth are anatomically correct in this fantasy world? They're a race of super-intelligent, long-lived super-birds that hail from Valinor and so may have more in common with those ethereal spirits than their fine feathered mortal counterparts.

Are the orcs scientifically accurate? The trolls? The hobbits? How about the oliphaunts? Or the giant spiders borne from Shelob?

yes it does matter. they are depicted as golden eagles so they have to match them. If not they should have created a completely new animal.

If humans in Middle earth had proportionately longer arms than us for no reason, eveyone would notice and complain.

The oliphaunts are right i suppose. But im sure TOlkien, being southafrican, had African elephants in mind when he created them, not asian elephants.... So they should resemble the former. Big ears specially.

[BloodBoal]

First-Look at Lego's 'Hobbit' Mini-Figurines

[Marian Schedenig]

So with these latest pics, we know that the barrel scene is probably where the film will cut off. But that doesn't leave very much for the 2nd part. I wonder what they're planning for the sequel then...

I believe I predicted that split point once.

In the book, it leaves quite a bit for a second part - there's a lot of chapters after they leave Lake Town, as that's where the story basically goes from an episodic "there (and back again)" to a more rich and character based setting. The difference is that for the movie, they'll probably have to flesh out the journey quite a bit, but then I'm sure they can fit all kinds of character moments into the second film to compensate.

[Chaac]

The first film might end with the company looking at the Lonely Mountain on the horizon. I've been imagining it this way for months. The first film will be a perfect mirror of Fellowship of the Ring. There and Back Again is the wildcard.

[Pasi Tiitinen]

I think the the banner is quite mediocre, very predictable but I like the Legos.

[Ren]

I'm seriously buying these Legos for my son and I to play with in 8 years

[KK.]

Storytime with The Hobbit.

I love TheOneRing.net's idea of looking at the new banner as a storybook for the Tolkien purists. Basically this link is their speculations about what each scene denotes. It's spoiler-free for anyone whose read the book.

[Jason LeBlanc]

Excellent article, thanks for sharing! For anyone who didn't read it too carefully, here's a link mentioned in it to the highest-res version of the banner yet (2.5mb image!)

http://cinescopia.co...principal00.jpg

I never noticed the 3 trolls behind the cauldron before until the article pointed it out!

[alicebrallice]

jasonator, your avatar is annoyingly long.

[BloodBoal]

Shut up, Gandalf N°453! Leave Gandalf N°237 alone!

[Wojo]

Order! Order! The meeting of the brotherhood of Gandalfs is about to begin!

[Stefancos]

jasonator, your avatar is annoyingly long.

You should see mine. :-)

[KK.]

Enough of this Avatar nonsense! Quint and Ren are back at it again (to all our woe)! And we have yet ANOTHER Gandalf on this board!!! If only people were happy with two...

It's funny that Wojo chose to stick with Gandalf the White....that was my gig I only changed to Gandalf the Grey temporarily for the upcoming film.

[Ren]

I love the avatar nonsense.

And I like the Gandalfs....

[Stefancos]

You would love my Gandalf...

[Ren]

is your Gandalf grey or white?