#hobbitbtsedit

"It's an interesting turn in the story, I think. You know, for "The Hobbit". Tolkien, when he came up with it. It's an interesting way of ending the book in that three characters, and the lead characters; they die." - Dean O'Gorman

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), dir. Peter Jackson

“It was a scene we were gonna shoot on a green screen. And it was second unit, so Andy Serkis was directing it. Peter came to set, Fran and Philippa came to set, and they’re like “Well, what are we gonna do?” It was like film school. It’s like, we were like a bunch of film school students being like “Let’s shoot a scene from ‘The Hobbit’. It’ll be a scene between... Legolas and Thranduil. And maybe what’s gonna happen in this scene is Tauriel has just left.”” - Lee Pace 

“It was one of those scenes that we sort of thought we might need, where Thranduil was giving Legolas permission to go and bring Tauriel back.” - Philippa Boynes

"Sometimes I just sit there scratching my head, thinking “These four or five takes are just all fantastic, they’re all different. Which one do I use in the movie?” And it’s a shame because I wish people could see the other takes because they’re equally entertaining and equally truthful." - Peter Jackson

"It’s supposed to be like the Elves are upstairs partying, whilst, you know, the Dwarves are being captured and locked up downstairs and so [Tauriel has] come down from the party." - Orlando Bloom

“They’d have a cross up on the green screens for us to achieve a focal sense so we’re all looking in the same place.” - Jed Brophy

“There was that, there was the idea that he likes to have a good time, that he’s fun. You know what I mean? That he’s powerful, privileged, wise, very, very old, and he’s fought in all of the great battles of Middle-earth. And he’s now locked himself away in a fortress, away from the trouble of the world. That’s interesting. There’s an interesting psychology. There’s a wisdom to it, but there’s a detachment to it.”

“And then I collected symbols, I collected things that I found were interesting about - a tiger was a good symbol for him because he’s dangerous, he’s not your friend. Tigers, they are beautiful, they are complicated, they are vicious. That’s how he is. He’s like a diamond. He’s cold and hard and rich. And he cares about being that way. Formidable. Like a great tree in the forest. A very old, strong tree. It’s not going anywhere. But it’s very much alive. It’s not a stone.” - Lee Pace