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New Still From The Hobbit Features Bilbo and the Sting

by Jamie Frevele | 2:28 pm, January 15th

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Well, here we go, everyone. We can now say that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens later this year, and that makes all the new developments even more exciting because they are no longer a year away. And this morning brought us one new development: a tight, intense shot of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and the Sting. More information after the jump.

Those familiar with J.R.R. Tolkien‘s books know the significance of the Sting and how it plays into the plot involving Bilbo’s confrontation with Gollum (who will be played once again by Andy Serkis). While for a hobbit, the Sting is sword-sized, it’s actually an Elvish long-blade knife. It was lost during the Fall of Gondolin and made its way into a troll-hoard, where Bilbo finds it. And — watch out, we’re going to make an unavoidable pun — what gives Bilbo an edge — you were warned! — against Gollum, is that Gollum hates things made by elves.

It’s coming, everyone. Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens in theaters December 14.

(via The Daily Blam)

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  • http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity

    Point of order: It’s not “the Sting.” Just “Sting.”

  • Sarah Langan

    It’s such a small mistake, and yet it still made me cringe each time I read it.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    A quintessentially Internet reply.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1117234345 Julie Allen

    beautiful pun :)

  • http://twitter.com/notcrunchy Dux K-S

    Thank you Abel, I was about to say the same thing. It’s like calling Gandalf, “The Gandalf,” or calling Gandalf’s sword “the Glamdring”. 

  • http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity

    Well, I’m old enough to reflexively link “the Sting” to this: http://youtu.be/fPmruHc4S9Q haha

  • http://twitter.com/RockShrimp Willow

    Or The Gordon Sumner

  • Francesca M

     /wipes the drool from her mouth.

  • Carmen Sandiego

    It reminds me of going to see a charity screening of “Serenity” and there in big black letters on the theater billboard (what’s that thing called, seriously?) was “THE SERENITY”.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/zeonchar Amanda M. Ramsey

    “The Sting”….. really?