I'm excited enough about the film that I'm basically traler-proof, but I agree with TheMargarineman.

Oh I see now. Teague was quoting himself.

STOP AGREEING WITH YOURSELF TEAGUE. YOU'LL GO BLIND.

I would not classify myself as a LOTR fan, and yet I couldn't wipe the grin off my face while watching this trailer.

- Branco

PS -- 48fps is stupid, and this should have been shot on film.

I'll admit to being one who's initial exposure to the Lord of the Rings & the Hobbit wasn't actually the books, which as an avid reader looking back is admittedly odd, but the original animated Rankin/Bass feature.

I jury-rigged my dads stereo setup to take the vcr's audio out, and made myself an audiotape of the whole thing, to enjoy the music that was made from the books songs.

As such, the moment of the songs appearance just took me back to those days, and definitely took the trailer where it needed to go for me to strike a nerve.

I will agree that they were really trying to fit a large amount of things into a relatively short trailer, the callbacks (or would it be call-forwards) to set pieces of the LOTR films in one or two spots was a little on the nose, but workable.

Overall, I am excited. I had been trying to avoid much of the hype, as it is still now a full year away, but ... damn it.

I like it. I've been cautiously optimistic since they started, because this didn't need two movies and is no doubt padded with 'new stuff', which Jackson and Co aren't nearly as good as they think they are at doing. This looks to continue the subtlety level of LOTR, which is to say it's not.

The Hobbit is one of those stories I'm so familiar with that I won't have much problem with bastardizations. It's just always been there, like the Bible, and not to be treated like gospel The Rankin/Bass TV movie came out when I was in 4th or 5th grade, and the teachers showed it to us in class at some point (home VCRs were nonexistent in my world, so this was all still magic). At some point I picked up a two record album with the complete soundtrack, dialog and all, which I still have. A year later the elementary school play was a teacher written adaptation of the book, with fun new songs- the battle of five armies was done to the tune of "10 little indians" as the dwarves got killed off.

All I'll ask from the film is that they keep the sense of wonder. It's a KIDS story, about leaving home for the first time and seeing the wonders of the world... then coming home again.