Is This Our First Look At The "Great Goblin" From THE HOBBIT?

Is This Our First Look At The "Great Goblin" From THE HOBBIT?

Check out a couple of images that are rumored to be our first visual of some Goblins from Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy. The main pic is said to be the grotesque Chief - or "Great" - Goblin, played by Barry Humphries. Possible spoilers ahead..

By MarkCassidy - Sep 03, 2012 06:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: OneRing.net





Quite the looker eh? The images popped up over at a French Tolkien site (via One Ring.net), and seem to be taken from some type of card set. There is also the following description of the Chief Goblin and his minions from the upcoming movie. (translated)..

"The Goblin King is a huge, grotesquely bloated monster, that in the years of his tyrannical rule over the miserable inhabitants of the Goblin town, grew fat and flabby. The Goblin town is a collection of skew-whiff ramshackle huts deep in the caves of the Misty Mountains. He commands a bunch of foul, polluted, with scars and ulcers studded goblins.

Basically, they are bandits, they live by what they can pick up from passengers on the passes through the mountains. The Goblin King and his followers manage to capture Bilbo and the dwarves. The Goblin King is more wily and smarter than it seems. He takes pleasure in torturing his prisoners — he almost succeeds to finish off Thorin Oakenshield and his companions."










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DaenerysTargaryen
DaenerysTargaryen - 9/3/2012, 6:46 PM
Eww looks like my grandma without makeup
95
95 - 9/3/2012, 6:47 PM
Beautiful!
DEADP0000L
DEADP0000L - 9/3/2012, 6:48 PM
@ClaireLannister2016 i agree
DEADP0000L
DEADP0000L - 9/3/2012, 6:48 PM
yes your grandma
itzayaboy
itzayaboy - 9/3/2012, 6:56 PM
for a second i thought it said green goblin announced as villian for TASM 2
itzayaboy
itzayaboy - 9/3/2012, 6:56 PM
now im dissapointed
FireKnightRises
FireKnightRises - 9/3/2012, 6:58 PM
so pretty
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 9/3/2012, 7:00 PM
I'd [frick] it. Then again I live in Oklahoma and don't get out much so....
MrReese
MrReese - 9/3/2012, 7:08 PM
Son of a betch I accidentally read Green Goblin lmao
MrReese
MrReese - 9/3/2012, 7:09 PM
I went from this =o 2 -__- XD
imnotahero
imnotahero - 9/3/2012, 7:12 PM
Looks very "Del Toro". Might be from when he was still attached to direct.
angus666
angus666 - 9/3/2012, 7:15 PM
Looks like that old lady troll thing from Hellboy.
marvel72
marvel72 - 9/3/2012, 7:19 PM
well he's a pretty one.
AnonymousGuy
AnonymousGuy - 9/3/2012, 7:28 PM
It looks like the mark of del Toro. It very much fits his films' aesthetic.
NosferatuZodd
NosferatuZodd - 9/3/2012, 7:32 PM
so Bilbo snd co. hitchhick on a Vogon ship? guess they didn't read the guide.
NosferatuZodd
NosferatuZodd - 9/3/2012, 7:42 PM
*hitchhike
OptimusPrimeTime
OptimusPrimeTime - 9/3/2012, 7:43 PM
Not that I spend much time on the subject, but when I imagine grif making a face at a Transformers article....this is the face I see him making.
Misterfan
Misterfan - 9/3/2012, 7:48 PM
looks like a mutant pimple.. eww!
OdinsMissingEye
OdinsMissingEye - 9/3/2012, 7:55 PM
This sucks!!! I wanted Bowie:(
TheAmazingSpiderMan47
TheAmazingSpiderMan47 - 9/3/2012, 7:57 PM
i like it ... its a nice cross between menacing, and extremely disgusting
LoudNoises
LoudNoises - 9/3/2012, 8:44 PM
@imnotahero

Lol. I thought the same thing when I first saw it. Very Del Toro-ish. Reminds me of that troll lady who eats cats in Hell Boy 2. Cool stuff though, I'm diggin it.
LoudNoises
LoudNoises - 9/3/2012, 8:47 PM
@angus666

I missed your comment about looking like the troll lady from Hell Boy. You beat me to the punch!
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 9/3/2012, 8:52 PM
Really looking forward to the new creature designs for this movie. One of the many positive things about the lotr movies.
Maximus101
Maximus101 - 9/3/2012, 8:53 PM
Looks like yossarian!
angus666
angus666 - 9/3/2012, 9:04 PM
@LoudNoises Great minds mate...
REDSTORM
REDSTORM - 9/3/2012, 9:11 PM
Glad to see Gusto is doing well in the acting business.
ScionStorm
ScionStorm - 9/3/2012, 10:55 PM
Norman Osborn, did Lizard try to eat your face?
Ironfran
Ironfran - 9/4/2012, 2:31 AM
I can't wait for this!!! I prefer the Hobbit over the lord of the rings, I fund it a way more adventurous. this waiting is killing me!!!!!
TheJoker1986
TheJoker1986 - 9/4/2012, 3:14 AM
looks great.

Facade
Facade - 9/4/2012, 5:25 AM
Similar to Moria orcs from FOTR (as expected). Should be [frick]ing epic!
Facade
Facade - 9/4/2012, 5:27 AM
@fettastic because they're underground dwellers of the Misty Mountain ;p
grampageezer
grampageezer - 9/4/2012, 7:05 AM
Looks like your average everyday Peter Jackson Goblin similar to those depicted in the mines of Moria and not what I pictured the "Great Goblin" to appear like.
Wouldn't, in a Goblin society, the biggest, strongest and smartest Goblin rise to the top as leader through sheer brute force over the others?
But I'm sure Jackson won't disappoint us.

Actually it looks more like a Guillermo del Toro design.
Fogs
Fogs - 9/4/2012, 8:02 AM
Holy crap!

Fogs
Fogs - 9/4/2012, 8:03 AM
I mean, it's awesome! Not cartoony as I imagined him when I read the Hobbit as a teen.
SpideyQuad
SpideyQuad - 9/4/2012, 8:04 AM
I'm fasinated with the differances between goblin's and orc's.

At one point I thought they were the same, but I think someone, maybe Jackson, stated differently.

Orc's are tortured Elf's who suffered under Melkor.
PapaEmeritus
PapaEmeritus - 9/4/2012, 8:48 AM
I like it, but... seems like a person with some genetic anomaly. I think they would have more... hum... fantastical appearance?
Too Orc-ish IMO.
ComfortablyNumb
ComfortablyNumb - 9/4/2012, 9:46 AM
Actually it looks more goblin than orc to me. The eyes and ears scream goblin.
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