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Chapter 2 ~ "Concerning Hobbits"
FW: Initially we recorded the prologue, an early vision with Elijah, who was reading it as Frodo at the end of the journey, but when we heart it back we felt, that it didn’t seemed to be part of Frodo’s story. It was reflecting on things, that he could not have known about. And then we thought, possibly Gandalf would be a good person and I think we actually did a recording with him, but we came to Cate in the end, because of the agelessness of elves and the fact, that Elrond appears in the prologue.
He also speaks to it later in the film. It felt appropriate to us, that she would almost bookmark this trilogy by opening and closing it as she does at the end of part 3. We also liked the idea of using a female voice. She’s got such a great voice, a strong and powerful voice and we knew, that she would, she would use the language well.
PJ: One of the most significant changes from the theatrical version to this extended cut is the way, that we introduce the Hobbits and its particular Bilbo Baggins. At the time, that we thought, that we didn’t think, we would gonna have a prologue and we would gonna open the movie with the writing of Bilbo’s book and hearing his voice describing Hobbits.
Once we decided to go back to the concept of including the prologue and the prologue became 7 minutes long, then this sequence started to feel like – there was just too much, too much narration. To some degree that’s probably true, but it is such a delightful sequence, that I just felt that it deserved to be seen. And so, you know, for good or bad here it is on this extended cut.
Obviously it establishes the book, that Bilbo is writing, which we now see later in Rivendell and it makes some sense of dialogue between Gandalf and Bilbo, that happens later in the kitchen, when Bilbo says: ‘I would find somewhere quiet to finish my book’, because we’ll have obviously seen him writing his book here.
The Hobbit extras were a bunch of people from near Matamata in the North Island of New Zealand. We chose them for their looks, for their faces, for their sort of hobbity qualities. And obviously here we got to see a little bit more of the Hobbiton set that we built.
Here is Sean Astin’s introduction, which we just, it’s just, it’s really the only time, that we ever see him gardening, which is some strange, it’s obviously Sam Gamgee is a gardener and one of the things I guess, we missed a little bit is the concept of the fact, that he is a gardener, but we did have the shot in this early version of the opening.
I like the way in which, you know, the Hobbits and the society of Hobbiton and the essence of Hobbits is set up and we sort of were able to take the time to do that, where as in the theatrical version we had to sort of jump straight into it.