More Set Pics From The Hobbit: Barrel Riding Scene

More Set Pics From The Hobbit: Barrel Riding Scene

TheOneRing got an exclusive set of photos that show off production tests on a barrel riding scene from The Hobbit movie.

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By CronoA7X - Feb 27, 2011 09:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: TheOneRing

These photos show off production testing a scene for the barrel scenes for The Hobbit movie.

Here is a quote from the photographer...


Just sending you a few pics of the activity going on at the Aratiatia Rapids where they have started filming for the barrell scenes in The Hobbit, they had heaps of safety people there as pretty dangerous stuff, mostly all wound up when I took the pics, but shows the barrels they were using for when the Bilbo Baggins and the dwarves, rode the rapids in barrels to get away from the orcs I think it was. the barrels are pink so as to allow for them being digitalized apparently. the hyab truck was in place to maybe film up the rapids, anyway, they used both ends of the rapids to do the job, as you will see. there are big barrels on the truck, plus a small one, I guess for scaling for Hobbit size?? A couple of pics also of the crew, both safty and filming by the looks of it having smoko.





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sansClaymore
sansClaymore - 2/27/2011, 9:56 PM
ORCS!!!! they were riding the barrels to escape the wood elves!!!! brush up before you write an article....
sansClaymore
sansClaymore - 2/27/2011, 10:02 PM
the scene just before the barrel ride is where orlando blooms appearance will most likely take place as he is the son of the elf king. also he may appear during the battle of the five armies towards the end.
so to everyone who is wondering why he was hired to reprise the role even though he doesnt appear in the actual book, and as for frodo showing up... i would assume in a narrator role, as he no doubt read "there and back again" bilbos account of the hobbit adventure, before penning the lotr account himself.
sansClaymore
sansClaymore - 2/27/2011, 10:06 PM
also as for gladriel being re-cast... when gandalf dissappears for a large portion of the hobbit, he, along with radagast the brown saruman the white and galadriel of mirkwood, battle and defeat the necromancer who turned out to actually be sauron in physical form.

now that should make for some bad-ass scenes in the hobbit movie.
Kaedus
Kaedus - 2/28/2011, 2:14 AM
@sansClaymore, that sounds right, although I think they'll probably use Frodo in book ends. The film will basically be Bilbo telling him the story, like how he is always mentioned doing in LOTR.
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 2/28/2011, 6:23 AM
Cool stuff to see them working out shooting the barrel ride scene. That is one of the many great parts of the book.

I wouldn't mind seeing Frodo used as a narrator, or seeing Bilbo starting to tell him the story and dissolve to flashback, where the story begins.
NiteSoul69
NiteSoul69 - 2/28/2011, 9:46 AM
really looking forward to this, LoTR movies were epic and i am a hugh fantasy movie fan so i hope this is good. i think i read somewhere a while back there may be two movies or a two-part movie, something along those lines, anybody know if this is true?
NiteSoul69
NiteSoul69 - 2/28/2011, 9:50 AM
update: while IMDb is not the most trusted site, i just read the movie is listed as The Hobbit Part 1, so i would say this is either highly likely the case or true in fact.
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 2/28/2011, 9:51 AM
What confuses me about the whole Frodo thing is this. Didn't he in fact "die" at the end of TLOTR? I mean not in the literal sense, but isn't it hinted that only an immortal can pass to the Grey Havens as it is essentially leaving middle Earth and passing on to "heaven" of sorts? That's always the impression I had. That FRodo and Bilbo had reached the end of their earthly lives and their spirits had joined the immortals.
sansClaymore
sansClaymore - 2/28/2011, 10:40 AM
@kaedus thats exactly what i was thinking about "frodo being bookends"... in the extended cut of the lotr there is an entire new scene at the beginning of the first movie where bilbo is seen writing at his desk yet galadriel is the main narrator throughout the trilogy interspersed with bits being read by gandalf and saruman. i could see frodo being used in the same capacity.

also @rormachine... his life was extended like bilbos because he was affected by the ring... so when they travel to the grey havens its imagined he will eventually die but at least spend several long years with the elves in the grey havens until that happens. im sure its all broken down in the silmarilion or other tolkin books. but the silmarilion was a hard read and i never got all the way through before putting it down to rest my brain.
HelaGood
HelaGood - 2/28/2011, 11:08 AM
tubthumping lakemen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Siolentvex
Siolentvex - 2/28/2011, 11:56 AM
There are no hard and fast rules in the history of middle earth as there are always exceptions such as Men being counted among the elves when they die and of course elves being counted as Men. As for Bilbo and Frodo, having carried the weight of the ring they were likewise outside the general order of things and were thus allowed to pass into the West. By sailing into the West they will not die. Also the Ban on Galadriel was lifted for her refusal to take the ring from Frodo when offered. One must also keep in mind that Tolkien was constantly revising the 'history' up until a few days before his death.
JackBauer
JackBauer - 2/28/2011, 12:55 PM
What Intruder said :)
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 2/28/2011, 5:19 PM
Woah, cheers Intruder, never knew any of that stuff! And I read The Simarillion!
GrayFox1025
GrayFox1025 - 2/28/2011, 6:42 PM
"Well he fought with the goblins, he battled a troll. He riddled with Gollum, a magic ring he stole. He was chased by wolves, lost in a forest, escaped in a barrel from the elf king's hall. Bilbo, Bilbo Baggings,bravest little Hobbit of them all..."
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