http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1SJ7yaa7cI
Im SOOOOO excited, popped in war in the norh just to get my Lotr fan up

A fan of LoTR said to me, after having watched that trailer: "They've destroyed the hobbit film. What's the deal with the out-opf-character dialogue, the falling troll, etc. The only good thing is gollum..."

I'll watch the movie either way, so it doesn't really matter to me if they follow the book 70% or 85%.

Meh, The lotr movies where completely off from the books, and I still loved them, I know im going to love this one as well.

They watched a 2 minute trailer and already consider the whole thing (trilogy now?) ruined. Yeah, that sounds like a typical fan.

I'm excited about these movies. If I wanted a page-for-page retelling, I'd just read the book again.

Let's see what TVTropes has to say about that.

No, just kidding, I wouldn't do that to you

I love the hobbit, and I can tell they've really [censored] it up. It's a simple book, why did they have to go and extend it into a trilogy? I know they used stuff from his notes, and outside the main 4 books but it just isn't working very well. The Hobbit as it is should have been a self contained movie. It's very hard to screw up. I can see a lot of good things in it now, but more bad things that weren't in the book. It was a very light hearted tale. This being a book I've read five or six times and plan to read more I have a very special place for it in my heart. As a movie it looks good, as an adaption of the book I don't think this one is going to turn out so well.

Thats a very negative view of things, you can see in the dialogue that this is going very light-hearted compared to lotr, all the humor. And you should know there adding alot of things that should have been in the lotr movies to the hobbit, such as Ragrast the brown. Stuff that was only mentioned in Toilkans notes, like the fall of the necormancer and the war between Goblins and Dwarves.

Meh haters gonna hate...yes the Hobbit is mean to be a children′s tale, brief and simple, but what Jackson and company are doing here is "fleshing out" the story a bit, justin the same way the fleshed out Aragon′s romance in the first trilogy, or gave Legloas some cool "superhero" moments...I am fine with it because in the end Jackson is a fan and everything he does will be done as a fan, not having a coporate lackey over his shounder telling him how to do things...
I myself am really looking foward to Gandalf′s untold journey (where he disapears for half the book) and how Jackson will deal with the Nrecomancer...the third movie probably will me most used as an appendix of sort for the LOTR trilogy, with fun cameos and some fleshing ou of realtionships

I could see the Hobbit taking a few movies because they can fill in the gaps where Tolkien glossed over combat and such. Bilbo blacked out an awful lot in that journey.

Certainly the biggest movie of 2012. At least for me.

I don't mind that they've added some stuff, it's necessary if it's a trilogy (though they probably shouldn't have pushed it beyond 2.) I'm waiting to see Beorn.

Hell yeah, the shapeshifter!!! Im personally more excited to see Bard, and him sniping smaug with his black arrow.