Comments on: The hobbit reimagined as a Golden Book http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 09:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: robuluz http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635631 robuluz Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635631 My point is that the concept and execution are excellent for student level, and you pissing all over it because it doesn't meet your exacting standards is very internet of you. <blockquote>why are you phrasing that being a girl is somehow a bad thing?</blockquote>I'm phrasing that picking on school girls is a bad thing, and phrasing that with some level of irony. But if it suits your political sensibilities better, you may substitute 'school kid' for 'school girl', and reconsider at your leisure. My point is that the concept and execution are excellent for student level, and you pissing all over it because it doesn’t meet your exacting standards is very internet of you.

why are you phrasing that being a girl is somehow a bad thing?

I’m phrasing that picking on school girls is a bad thing, and phrasing that with some level of irony. But if it suits your political sensibilities better, you may substitute ‘school kid’ for ‘school girl’, and reconsider at your leisure.

]]> By: Dan Hibiki http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635226 Dan Hibiki Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635226 Well, yeah. Remember before the films? Every hobbit book looked different and the only things they had in common were elements explicitly described in the books. After the first movie every hobbit and burrow and wizard started looking the same. Also the key difference between professional and student work is a pay check and why are you phrasing that being a girl is somehow a bad thing? Well, yeah. Remember before the films? Every hobbit book looked different and the only things they had in common were elements explicitly described in the books.
After the first movie every hobbit and burrow and wizard started looking the same.

Also the key difference between professional and student work is a pay check and why are you phrasing that being a girl is somehow a bad thing?

]]> By: Lou Messing http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635200 Lou Messing Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635200 This reminds me of an old read-along record that I just loved as a kid. It looked like this: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/books/audio-books/the-hobbit-read-along-record-and-book-748815 This reminds me of an old read-along record that I just loved as a kid. It looked like this:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/books/audio-books/the-hobbit-read-along-record-and-book-748815

]]> By: Ramone http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635162 Ramone Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635162 Kinda missing the point--the Golden Books that have come out in years are all based on licenses, so the film-look of these pieces are intended to keep that theme. Kinda missing the point–the Golden Books that have come out in years are all based on licenses, so the film-look of these pieces are intended to keep that theme.

]]> By: jaddle http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635160 jaddle Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:27:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635160 http://io9.com/5968792/the-middle-earth-illustrators-jrr-tolkien-lovedand-the-ones-he-abhorred has some illustrations from a real Golden Book version of (an excerpt of) The Hobbit. Tolkien was not a fan. http://io9.com/5968792/the-middle-earth-illustrators-jrr-tolkien-lovedand-the-ones-he-abhorred has some illustrations from a real Golden Book version of (an excerpt of) The Hobbit. Tolkien was not a fan.

]]> By: pa2rick http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635117 pa2rick Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:23:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635117 See, this is one of the reasons I loathe Jackson's Tolkien films: they have largely supplanted the books in the common imagination. The above is a children's book version of THE MOVIE, not the book (which is titled "The Hobbit: or There and Back Again". UGH. See, this is one of the reasons I loathe Jackson’s Tolkien films: they have largely supplanted the books in the common imagination. The above is a children’s book version of THE MOVIE, not the book (which is titled “The Hobbit: or There and Back Again”. UGH.

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635108 penguinchris Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635108 Martin Freeman, who I quite like, does seem to be a bit typecast in this type of role - he did of course actually play Arthur Dent in the 2005 film, and his Dr. Watson in Sherlock shares many similar traits.  I suppose it isn't fair to call it typecasting since he has played many other types of characters, but those three roles are easily his best known (as well as his role in the original UK The Office, of course). Martin Freeman, who I quite like, does seem to be a bit typecast in this type of role – he did of course actually play Arthur Dent in the 2005 film, and his Dr. Watson in Sherlock shares many similar traits. 

I suppose it isn’t fair to call it typecasting since he has played many other types of characters, but those three roles are easily his best known (as well as his role in the original UK The Office, of course).

]]> By: Hanglyman http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635098 Hanglyman Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:11:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635098 Film Bilbo is pretty much a tiny, hairy-footed Arthur Dent, at least for the first third of the movie. Film Bilbo is pretty much a tiny, hairy-footed Arthur Dent, at least for the first third of the movie.

]]> By: JhmL http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635080 JhmL Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635080 Nice. Not that it has anything to do with this, but it reminded me of: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20121221 Nice. Not that it has anything to do with this, but it reminded me of: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20121221

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1635076 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1635076 I might agree... if Bilbo had ever cracked a smile in the new film.  Book Bilbo is a cheerful, pudgy, little guy; Film Bilbo looks like he has an ulcer. I might agree… if Bilbo had ever cracked a smile in the new film.  Book Bilbo is a cheerful, pudgy, little guy; Film Bilbo looks like he has an ulcer.

]]> By: robuluz http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1634988 robuluz Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1634988 Yeah, school girl who has executed an interesting original idea with a clearly commercial level of skill, couldn't you re-imagine the characters as well? Yeah, school girl who has executed an interesting original idea with a clearly commercial level of skill, couldn’t you re-imagine the characters as well?

]]> By: Heartfruit http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1634961 Heartfruit Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:43:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1634961 I really like how the artist made the cover look worn and well loved.  I really like how the artist made the cover look worn and well loved. 

]]> By: sockdoll http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1634941 sockdoll Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1634941 I love this. I grew up with Little Golden Books and read them to my own son as well. I love this. I grew up with Little Golden Books and read them to my own son as well.

]]> By: Andrew Singleton http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1634932 Andrew Singleton Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1634932 Were it not for Chris Tolkien I'm sure this might be doable. C'mon! I'd buy it for my niece. Gotta get 'em on the classics early. Were it not for Chris Tolkien I’m sure this might be doable.

C’mon! I’d buy it for my niece. Gotta get ‘em on the classics early.

]]> By: Dan Hibiki http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1634909 Dan Hibiki Wed, 23 Jan 2013 03:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1634909 Eh.. too derivative of the movies. Eh.. too derivative of the movies.

]]> By: robuluz http://boingboing.net/2013/01/22/the-hobbit-remained-as-a-golde.html#comment-1634864 robuluz Wed, 23 Jan 2013 02:42:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=207676#comment-1634864 That is brilliant. That is brilliant.

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