Stop the Press: ONE LAST TIME--Almost forgot one. Oh, and How Thranduil could have had more screen time--just from the original story.
I was working late last night and got so excited, I didn’t sleep as usual, but I read the part of the Hobbit (book) where the Battle of Five Armies took place (and boy, did PJ turn that one WAY around), and noticed that Beorn is rather friendly with Thranduil (and he guards Bilbo with Gandalf through Mirkwood on their way to Rivendell). Found another detail that PJ could have kept in proper order and made another film, but oh, well--I’ll just toss it in this story seeing as it has to do with it--Dáin gives Thranduil emeralds as reward for fighting beside the Dwarves and Bilbo gives him a what? Some necklace that sounds remarkably like the one Thranduil said belong to the wife. No, it belonged to Dáin, actually. Oh, and there is the TINY matter of THRANDUIL at Thorin’s funeral. After all, he is the one that places the Orcrist in Thorin’s hands upon his chest. No matter, small trivial things I have to write in detail from Thranduil’s perspective. But Bilbo receives the title “Elf-Friend” from THRANDUIL when they part company which happens to be after he leaves Erebor with THRANDUIL, Gandalf and Beorn to go back THROUGH Mirkwood on his way back to Bag-End. Wait, there’s more.
He just had a wonderful conversation with Bard and Gandalf before the besiegement of Erebor I cannot wait to share (before and after Bilbo escapes with the Arkenstone and shows up in camp--one moment with Dáin involved). And guess what else Bilbo does? He seems to have been with the Elves during the Battle of the Five Armies. Yes, he did have his moment before Thorin died, but it was after the day-long battle he spend unconscious and had to be told what happened. And there’s more, yes, more. I’ll keep it to myself. You’ll learn sooner rather than later.
Nothing big really, just a few more pages to add--Saturday I’ll still be done with this lovely (currently 330+ page) fan fiction epic adventure about the life and times of Thranduil in a three volume work--which is amazing because his entire life in 21 volumes you have to read with a microscope to find all the vague goodies Tolkien wanted to put in (and he said he wished he had in one of his books). True, I did the research and now off to complete the first draft of the largest of all the books more than likely before it goes off for inspection by the Mythopoeic Society folks.--J.
Thranduil: You mean to tell me now I could have had more screen time?
(Biggest Oops For a Trilogy Award goes to....)
@fortunatelyclevercandy, @bellevox, @cristinaowl88, @peonies-and-poppies, @elven-nicknacks, @storytimeteller1, @lasimo74allmyworld) We could have had LOTS more Thranduil in The Hobbit Trilogy. So much of it, it could have written another trilogy about it. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.