Tolkien Week may be over, but we’re still seeing more from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. This time around we have the first look at some of the characters in the form of the action figures showing up early on Ebay. These give us a sense of what Evangeline Lilly’s new character (the elf Tauriel) looks like. We also get to see the Orc chieftain Bolg, Fimbul The Hunter and a Warg, the Great Goblin, and his minion Grinnah. The Great Goblin is called the Goblin King for some reason, but Jareth will always be the only Goblin King to us.
There’s also a new poster reminiscent of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy:
Bilbo Baggins (played by Martin Freeman) gets his closeup in what is probably safe to guess is the first of many character one sheets to come. As Empire points out, it’s not that dissimilar from the Viggo Mortensen/Aragon one sheet from oh so long ago. [The Playlist]
The poster is below, and the toys are on the next page since they might be a Hobbit spoiler. You can try to argue that we shouldn’t post leaked photos of the merchandise, but your argument was already invalidated three paragraphs ago.
[Sources: io9, CBM (1, 2), The Playlist, /film, Fark]
Compare this to teaser posters for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King:
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When I saw a picture of the Tauriel character my first thought was “Why is Liv Tyler a redhead in this movie?”
Kids these days are into Fimbulrs, but I’ve always been content with a good, old fashioned Bolg.
Melkor or gtfo.
MelkorSpace?
SPOILER: Evangeline Lilly still attractive
Mmmm-hm!
(Conversation in my house this weekend after our annual LotR marathon)
Mr: Wait… Liv Tyler’s in the Hobbit?
Me: Sigh. No, it’s the lady from Lost. She’s an elf named Tauriel.
Mr: Ummm… that character doesn’t exist.
Me: I know. I know. There are really no ladies in the Hobbit so they couldn’t just beef up a role with stuff from the appendices.
Mr: Stace… you realize the Hobbit is going to be terrible, right?
Me: NO NO NO NO I’M NOT LISTENING I’M NOT LISTENING
Mr: You should come to terms with it now. As a Star Wars fan I need to prepare you for this inevitability….
Me: No. Peter Jackson won’t let me down.
Mr: Oh youngling…
Hey, if Kane/D-Bry in anger management therapy can be awesome, I have hopes that anything can be*.
* – so long as they involve Kane and D-Bry. They’re in The Hobbit, right?
They are totally Smaug… DRAGON FIRE. Sorry Benedict, you’ve been bumped.
I am shocked. Shocked, I say! It takes me – a cranky old bastard – to comment that the Goblin King looks like he has an old man’s scrotum for a chin. I would have expected this much sooner.
Internets, you have let me down today….
I very nearly posted the chin balls guy from Men In Black under that photo, but it’s technically NSFW so I couldn’t.
That technicality should be impeached. It’s time for a change.
That Goblin King figure looks exactly like the Mom on that Honey BooBoo show. Jesus H Christ.
Sans the toilet paper and/or bucket of fried chicken accessories. But, might I suggest a “Honey BilBo” tie-in?