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http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2012/09/latest_the_hobbit_preview_show.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/3...cted-journey-reveals-first-error-smashing.htm
However it also appears that the film diverges significantly from the book. In the new trailer we hear Gandalf (Ian McKellen) declare that the dwarves are on a quest to "reclaim their homeland", something that the chief dwarf Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) confirms when he says in the trailer that they will "take back Erebor".
For those not in the know the kingdom of the dwarves was destroyed and occupied by a dragon named Smaug (mysteriously absent from the new trailer and voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) who then spent the next century or so occupying the kingdom while lying on a bed of gold and jewels stolen from the Dwarves.
The real reason for the quest of the dwarves was not some kind of Charles de Gaulle mission to liberate their ancestral home. Those who remember "The Fellowship of the Ring" will know that the Mines of Moria might aptly be described as the ancestral home of the dwarves.
Alas the Dwarves of Tolkien's legendarium are known to get through ancestral homes faster than Italy gets through governments. After being driven out of Moria, the Dwarves found themselves in the Grey Mountains, before being driven to Erebor and finally to the Blue Mountains and the Iron Hills.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/3...cted-journey-reveals-first-error-smashing.htm
However it also appears that the film diverges significantly from the book. In the new trailer we hear Gandalf (Ian McKellen) declare that the dwarves are on a quest to "reclaim their homeland", something that the chief dwarf Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) confirms when he says in the trailer that they will "take back Erebor".
For those not in the know the kingdom of the dwarves was destroyed and occupied by a dragon named Smaug (mysteriously absent from the new trailer and voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) who then spent the next century or so occupying the kingdom while lying on a bed of gold and jewels stolen from the Dwarves.
The real reason for the quest of the dwarves was not some kind of Charles de Gaulle mission to liberate their ancestral home. Those who remember "The Fellowship of the Ring" will know that the Mines of Moria might aptly be described as the ancestral home of the dwarves.
Alas the Dwarves of Tolkien's legendarium are known to get through ancestral homes faster than Italy gets through governments. After being driven out of Moria, the Dwarves found themselves in the Grey Mountains, before being driven to Erebor and finally to the Blue Mountains and the Iron Hills.
