JRR Tolkien is very good at writing, and a "Lord of the Rings" has already made me worship as a masterpiece. Peter Jackson is very good at filming, and the "Hobbit" trilogy after "Lord of the Rings" once again pushed me into the abyss of endless waiting. The writer who writes the serial and the director who shoots the prelude must first have a good character, or do you think that making Kudo Shinichi go to 17-year elementary school will not be cursed?
Sitting in the theater, seeing the biggest "local tyrant gold" of the year - the giant dragon Smauge flying towards Changhu Town, a feeling that is all too familiar struck me. The hero Hercules in ancient Greek mythology once stole the golden apple in the holy garden of Hesperides, in "Grimm's Fairy Tales" the hunter rescued the princess who was forced to sacrifice, in the long narrative poem "Beowulf" It describes the battle before King Beowulf died, and Shrek in Shrek also rescued Princess Fiona from the tower. guess what? Between all the above warriors and treasures (beautiful princesses are another form of treasure) lies a fire-breathing dragon!
Unlike the Chinese people who regard the dragon as a national totem, the dragon in Western civilization has always appeared as a treasure keeper. At this point, the great god Tolkien is also not exempt. As the last dragon in Middle-earth, the miser Smaug would rather sleep alone in a heap of gold for sixty years than fly outside to meet new friends and exercise. So, Smaug, dare you say Aren't you too fat to keep up with dwarves? Do you dare to say that you didn't talk to Lord Baggins endlessly because you haven't been socialized for too long? In short, the case of Smaug once again proves to us that life is in motion, and without friends is death.
Although "The Hobbit" is a memoir written by Bilbo Baggins to his nephew Frodo Baggins, it was used to tell the ignorant Frodo of his youthful adventures and fortunes. As a prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit has comprehensively described Middle-earth's various races, kingdoms, histories and their contradictory origins. Since there is no full resurrection of the Dark Lord Sauron, and Middle-earth is on the verge of extinction, the overall tone of "The Hobbit" is much lighter than "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Lord of the Rings" has been chased like an escape. The sense of urgency is different, "The Hobbit" is more like an adventure of Bilbo following the dwarves. In this experience, he has seen a vast and strange world. Although he is often threatened with death, he is different from his nephew decades later. Compared with Frodo's heavy responsibility for the survival of Middle-earth, Bilbo's journey is less tense and less dark, and more witty and funny. This may be the reason why some audiences like The Hobbit more than The Lord of the Rings.
Compared with "The Hobbit 1 - An Unexpected Journey" released a year ago, there is no need to introduce the characters, acquaintances and historical entanglements of "The Battle of Smaug". To send the dwarf wizard hobbit to the Lonely Mountain. Thinking back to the "Lord of the Rings Expedition", this fourteen-person team can be called the "Dragon Slaying Squad", because even if they each have their own goals, they will eventually have to fight to the death with the giant dragon Smauge. So, we are back to the conclusion we just started - between the warrior and the treasure, there is always a fire-breathing dragon.
The dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield and Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings have similar backgrounds. They are both the heirs of the once mighty kingdom. The difference is that Aragorn was led by fate to restore the human kingdom, while Thorin More because of the obsession with the glory of the homeland, he took the initiative to choose to return to the lonely mountain occupied by giant dragons. Due to Thorin's grandfather, the dwarf king Thor's greed for gold and gems, Smaug, the giant dragon who also loves treasure, was attracted. The once prosperous dwarf kingdom Erebor was occupied by Smaug. Forced to move out of their homeland, wandering around. After becoming the leader, Thorin obtained the map leading to the Lonely Mountain and the key to open the palace of Iruba from the gray-robed wizard Gandalf, and established the "Dragon Slaying Squad", intending to use Bilbo to steal back the heirloom—— "Akan Silmarillion", regained the homeland and rebuilt the glory of "the country under the mountain".
With national hatred and family hatred, the dwarves slaughter dragons is understandable. And the initiator of the entire dragon slaying operation - the wizard Gandalf the gray robe has a deeper consideration for the dragon Smaug. At the Rivendell meeting in "An Unexpected Journey", Gandalf expressed concern about the increasingly powerful dark forces - dragons are not terrible in themselves, what is terrible is that dragons will become weapons used by dark forces . To get rid of the dragon is also to get rid of a great threat to the peaceful world. "The Battle of Smaug" proved that the gray robe wizard did have a vision. Gandalf went deep into the cemetery of the Nazgul Angmar, found that the Nazgul had been summoned, and then asked the brown robe wizard Radagast to report to the Elf Queen. , while traveling alone in Dol Guldur, he finally discovered the truth that the Dark Lord Sauron had been resurrected.
If you have read the entire "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" series, you will find that the Dark Lord Sauron's biggest enemy is not an elves, not dwarves, not humans or hobbits, but this one who can always look into the crisis first. gray robe wizard. Gandalf instigated the dwarves' dragon slaying action, on the surface to support Thorin's recovery of his homeland, but in fact to detect and eradicate the dark forces. Compared with his ability to "join vertical and horizontal" in "The Lord of the Rings" to persuade all races to jointly set up the "Lord of the Rings Expedition", Gandalf's greater part is to put "The Hobbit" in the Shire. , the race that lived a life of indifference was included in the confrontation between Middle-earth and Sauron. Bilbo Baggins not only saved the dwarves from fire and water many times, but also obtained the "Lord of the Rings" from Gollum, which set up obstacles for Sauron's full resurrection.
Gandalf seemed to know all the stories early in the morning, he helped Bilbo to hide the discovery of the Lord of the Rings from Thorin, because the money-loving dwarves would be greedy when they saw the Lord of the Rings; he taught Bilbo to spare other people's lives, Bilbo's release of Gollum was almost the decisive factor for the "Lord of the Rings" to be completely destroyed in the future.
And the weight of our hobbit children in "The Battle of Smaug" is successively represented by the elf king Thranduil, the elf prince Legolas, the elven warrior Tariel, the human sailor Bard and various Diluted by the half-orcs, it was not until the confrontation with Smaug that the long-awaited "Cum Fu and Peanut" cross-race scene appeared. But even so, Bilbo was a key figure in the dragon-slaying battle, as he discovered Smaug's only weakness - the scaled off dragon.
As the foreshadowing of "The Battle of the Dragon" and "The Battle of the Five Armies", "The Battle of Smaug" has completely surpassed "Unexpected Journey" in terms of the arrangement of the plot, the grandeur of the scene, and the setting of the characters. Having seen Peter Jackson perform better than the last in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I can't help but look forward to the final chapter of The Hobbit.
However, in order to restrain himself from the curse that he had to send to Peter from time to time during this long wait, no matter how much everyone praised Legulas for stepping on the dwarf's head, shooting left and right, and how obsessed with Elf King Thranduil's The beauty, how disdainful the arrangement of the elf-dwarf love triangle, and how eagerly complained about using gold water to create a "local gold" version of Smaug, I still decided to go to the theater to brush a version of IMAX 3D.
Peanut Roll Fu Gandalf, Queen and Male God Local Tyrant Jin, see you next year!
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