Who is Bilbo? What is his character like? Guillermo Del Toro has some interesting thoughts on his ideas about Bilbo:

Bilbo is a good-hearted man, and the honesty of Bilbo is in direct contrast to the greed of Smaug, which looms large in the entire narrative, but also in the newly acquired greed and pride of Thorin, who becomes intoxicated with power and gold.

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Guillermo Del Toro speaks about Smaug, approaching actors, and other details about the Hobbit in an interview with MTV.

MTV: Do you have the picture yet of the Smaug you want to create?

Del Toro: I discussed the Smaug appearance with great detail with [Tolkien illustrators] John Howe and Alan Lee, and there’s some illustrations that John did out of that meeting in London that approximate Smaug. I cannot say much more. He is becoming clearer and clearer.

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In an interview with MTV News, Guillermo Del Toro refused to fractionalize Tolkiens book into component parts.

“We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings - we understood. It’s a movie.”

It will be just like The Lord of The Ring, three separate volumes intented in a single, large one.

The division made with The Hobbit is due to solve the narrating issues of the second episode.

“We all agree that if we do our job right, it should all feel like a continuous journey. That’s what we’re striving for,” Del Toro said. “You should see a movie that’s five pictures long. If we do our job right, you put in ‘The Hobbit’ and you wind up watching the entire Pentology!”

What a long day it would be!, “But it’s a good day!” Del Toro laughed. About the end of the first episode, will it follow the text accurately?

“We are finding out,” Guillermo said. “I think Smaug dies in the first movie. So draw your own conclusions.”

Do you think Guillermo Del Toro has it all planned?

Guillermo del Toro recently appeared at the Director’s Guild of America in midtown Manhattan as part of The New Yorker Festival series of talks. During the conversation with New Yorker staff writer Daniel Zalewski, del Toro discussed where exactly his mind was in Middle Earth.

“I find you have to discipline yourself to write in the morning, and then watch and read in the afternoons stuff that seems relevant, even in a tangential way. For example, reading or watching World War I documentaries or books that I think inform ‘The Hobbit’ strangely enough, because I believe it is a book born out of Tolkien’s generation’s experience with World War I and the disappointment of being in that field and seeing all those values kind of collapse. I think it’s a turning point that you need to familiarize yourself with.I’m Starting.Peter Jackson is such.

He has lots of thoughts about this New version of the Hobbit coming in 2011!

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Guillermo del Toro recently spoke about The Hobbit in The Directors Guild of America. Also he talked about the dragon Smaug.

“All my life I’ve been fascinated by dragons. I was born under the Chinese sign of The Dragon. All my life I’m collecting dragons. It’s such a powerful symbol, and in the context of ‘The Hobbit’ it is used to cast its shadow through the entire narrative. Essentially, Smaug represents so many things: greed, pride… he’s ‘the Magnificent,’ after all. The way his shadow is cast in the narrative you cannot then show it and have it be one thing, he has to be the embodiment of all those things. He’s one of the few dragons that will have enormous scenes with lines. He has some of the most beautiful dialogues in those scenes! The design, I’m pretty sure that will be the last design we will sign off on, and the first design we have attempted. It is certainly a matter of turning every stone before figuring out what he looks like, because what he looks like will tell you what he is.”

He is really excited about the movie and hope to see him soon in the shooting

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