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PostPosted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 6:28 am 
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Well who is it? I would say Dwalin, he just looks and speaks so bad ass...
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I really despise Thorin so not him. I think I would have to go with Balin because he is the most aware of the whole situation and is always helping out Bilbo :)

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Kili because he's immense with his bow and often saves the company
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Bofur! Maybe we should make a poll out of this?

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I also join the Bofur-worship. He's a genuine nice guy, and he's funny too. Plus, he fights with a practical tool/weapon - a pickaxe!

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I agree, Goldman! Plus he's James Nesbitt! His Yellow Pages adverts were hilarious :P

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Dwalin just because
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I was going to say Dwalin, but I think I'm going to go with Ori. Simply for that one line regarding chips....

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I was going to say Dwalin, but I think I'm going to go with Ori. Simply for that one line regarding chips....


Ori was actually my least favourite of the dwarves, because he seemed like such an ignorant and inexperienced fool. Plus, he came to kill a dragon carrying JUST A SLINGSHOT (and a knife). I mean, other guys (Dwalin) bring two axes, a massive hammer and a knife, and he comes with effectively nothing.

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I wouldnt say he was ignorant, bordering on ******* yes. I like him, I now get sad when I watch FotR and see him at Balin's Tomb :(

So it's between him and Bofur.

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Naive, that was the word I was looking for. Ori's too naive, gullible and inexperienced to be hunting dragons and wargs and trolls and goblin kings with ***** Beards.

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Yeah definately Naive :D I still have a soft spot for him though.

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Balin or Thorin.
Love how they portray Thorin.
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Are we talking film-wise or book-wise?

Book-wise it'd be Kili Because I personally think he cares most about Bilbo (him and his brother nearly volunteered to go into the tunnel first instead of Bilbo) and I think he has a nice, young, friendly character.

Film-wise, Bofur. Funny, yet also quite sincere in places. Also an actually sensible, practical book-like weapon.

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It's a tricky one this. One the one -hand given the length of the hobbit, there was very little time to develop the dwarves characters and I think Tolkien might have only half-formulated their character beyond the ones essential for the plot to develop.

In the film, I think PJ has gone on record as trying to visually give the characters a distinct look.

So from a film perspective, I think I enjoy them all, mainly due to PJ's visualisations. I do have a soft spot for Balin though.

As regard the book , I choose Thorin. As well as being the most realised dwarf in the text, the complex nature of the character makes him head and shoulders above the others. I feel the whole point of the book is as much about Thorin's journey as Bilbo's, even down to his final realisation of the harm he had done and the ability to give up his life to make amends.

In some ways this mirrors Boromir's realisation in FoTR so Tolkien might have chosen to use this sort of literary device again in a later book.

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Thorin truly is a great piece of literary characterisation, a complex character who undergoes an incredible journey... I think this has been played well so far in the movie too. A character who although clearly flawed to the audience, you would still follow into battle.

Bravo for Thorin!

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Thorin truly is a great piece of literary characterisation, a complex character who undergoes an incredible journey... I think this has been played well so far in the movie too. A character who although clearly flawed to the audience, you would still follow into battle.

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Goldman25 wrote:
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I was going to say Dwalin, but I think I'm going to go with Ori. Simply for that one line regarding chips....


Ori was actually my least favourite of the dwarves, because he seemed like such an ignorant and inexperienced fool. Plus, he came to kill a dragon carrying JUST A SLINGSHOT (and a knife). I mean, other guys (Dwalin) bring two axes, a massive hammer and a knife, and he comes with effectively nothing.

In the book, none of the dwarves had ANYTHING with them, so comparing Ori to all of the book dwarves, he was quite prepared.

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Azaghal. For sheer epicness.


Any one who stands their ground at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad and nearly guts one of the most powerful dragons in Tolkien History with a Knife as his last act of defiance, deserves praise.

Hobbit Book: Balin

Hobbit Movie: I guess I'll also have to go with Dwalin
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Goldman25 wrote:
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I was going to say Dwalin, but I think I'm going to go with Ori. Simply for that one line regarding chips....


Ori was actually my least favourite of the dwarves, because he seemed like such an ignorant and inexperienced fool. Plus, he came to kill a dragon carrying JUST A SLINGSHOT (and a knife). I mean, other guys (Dwalin) bring two axes, a massive hammer and a knife, and he comes with effectively nothing.

In the book, none of the dwarves had ANYTHING with them, so comparing Ori to all of the book dwarves, he was quite prepared.


Did they all come unarmed in the Hobbit book? I know they all had small knives on them, which they used to fight the spiders in Mirkwood, but I assumed they had weapons and lost them during one of the many times they were captured.

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