This is such a lovely moment, and one so likely to be cut from a movie version (since it doesn’t advance the plot, as they say), that it’s a great delight to see it in both the Rankin-Bass and Peter Jackson versions of The Hobbit:
(Click for enhanced magnitude.)
So apparently the story about the animated Tolkien adaptations that I tell here is not true.
Oh well; facts must yield to ideas, as Acton used to say.
In other news, check out the new Hobbit trailer, as well as this somewhat over-the-top reaction.
Here, for example.
Here, for example.
Here, for example.
The BBC claims that this clip is a thank-you gift for fans who were mistakenly sent the Doctor Who season finale and didn’t reveal any spoilers.
I rather suspect that this clip was already filmed and scheduled to be released pretty soon anyway. In any case, most of the season finale’s plot twists have been circulating as rumors for a while – albeit intermixed with other stuff that turned out not to be true.
But, whatever. Enjoy the clip: