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singh_reads_kanwar2's review
4.0
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will see The Company of Thorin Oakenshield encounter even greater perils in their quest to claim their long-forgotten gold.
After setting out from the safety of Bag End, Bilbo Baggins has journeyed through Middle-earth with his fourteen companions, fighting through fire, Wargs, Goblins and even escaping the creature known simply as Gollum.
They went through town meet the shape shifter bear and he became the guard for night. They crossed the jungle of illusion and spider. Where they met Elfs and they imprisoned them. But baggins save them and they move towards mountains. Orks are after them but they safely went away and they reached a town who is known for dragon slayers but it got destroyed during that time too. Will they dwarfs , thorin and baggins will able to save them from dragon attack
After setting out from the safety of Bag End, Bilbo Baggins has journeyed through Middle-earth with his fourteen companions, fighting through fire, Wargs, Goblins and even escaping the creature known simply as Gollum.
They went through town meet the shape shifter bear and he became the guard for night. They crossed the jungle of illusion and spider. Where they met Elfs and they imprisoned them. But baggins save them and they move towards mountains. Orks are after them but they safely went away and they reached a town who is known for dragon slayers but it got destroyed during that time too. Will they dwarfs , thorin and baggins will able to save them from dragon attack
narflet's review
2.0
A pretty weak instalment in the 'visual companion' series. The majority of this spends time giving us recaps and no new information at all. The only pages to hold anything of passing interest are in the latter half, on Beorn, Mirkwood and it's characters, Lake-town and Smaug but even those don't really give you anything of interest if you've been following the film news as I have. The majority of the images are either from AUJ, or have already been seen - either taken from trailers or stills already seen online. There's very little new or of interest in this book for fans.
The best things in this book are Richard Armitage's well written introduction, and the photo on page 69 that shows us John Howe and Alan Lee's cameos (they're dressed as members of Lake-town's brass band/heraldry).
The best things in this book are Richard Armitage's well written introduction, and the photo on page 69 that shows us John Howe and Alan Lee's cameos (they're dressed as members of Lake-town's brass band/heraldry).
angelwolf45's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this book.
It was a quick read but it was very good.
There was not much to read but it had beautiful pictures from the movie. It made it fun to look at the pictures and to read about the world that I enjoy.
It was a beautiful book I enjoyed the whole book. It was the first of the visual companion books for this movies and it was good.
I really enjoyed the book.
It was a quick read but it was very good.
There was not much to read but it had beautiful pictures from the movie. It made it fun to look at the pictures and to read about the world that I enjoy.
It was a beautiful book I enjoyed the whole book. It was the first of the visual companion books for this movies and it was good.
I really enjoyed the book.
bookwalk's review against another edition
4.0
Der Hobbit - Smaugs Einöde. Das offizielle Begleitbuch von Jude Fisher, erschienen bei Klett-Cotta, ist der zweite von insgesamt drei geplanten Begleitbänden zu den von Peter Jackson inszenierten Verfilmungen des Romans Der Hobbit - Oder hin und wieder zurück von J. R. R. Tolkien, wovon der zweite Teil in diesem Dezember in die Kinos kommen wird.
Nach einem kurzen einführenden Text von Richard Armitage (Darsteller von Thorin Eichenschild), in welchem der Schauspieler über seine Verbundenheit zum Hobbit berichtet, wird der Leser in die Welt des Hobbit entführt und erhält dabei zahlreiche Einblicke in diese einzigartige Fantasysaga. Zunächst erfährt der Leser, was im ersten Film der Hobbit-Trilogie bisher geschehen ist, bevor es in die Charaktervorstellungen geht. Neben "alten" bzw. bereits bekannten Charakteren wie Thorin Eichenschild, Balin & Dwalin (und die anderen Zwerge) kommt natürlich auch eine Vorstellung des Hauptcharakters Bilbo Beutlin nicht zu kurz. Darüber hinaus werden aber auch Charaktere, welche zum ersten Mal in der Hobbit-Trilogie auftauchen, beleuchtet. So erfährt man, wer der Hautwechsler Beorn ist oder was es mit dem Elbenkönig Thranduil auf sich hat.
Selbstverständlich ist in diesem Begleitbuch auch eine Beschreibung der Schauplätze in Mittelerde enthalten, kurzum, alles wissenswerte rund um den zweiten Hobbit-Film ist in diesem Buch vorhanden.
Wer jetzt Angst vor einem dicken Nachschlagewerk mit viel Text hat, den kann ich beruhigen. Jedes einzelne Kapitel ist mit zahlreichen wirklich ansehnlichen und hochauflösenden Filmbildern geschmückt, sodass man neben der textlichen Beschreibung auch ein Bild des beschriebenen Sachverhalts vor Augen hat. Leider ist mir dieses Begleitbuch aber etwas zu kurz, obwohl jeder einzelne Abschnitt wirklich ausgesprochen gut gestaltet ist! Außerdem macht das Buch schon vom äußeren Eindruck einiges wieder gut, da das Buch als Hardcover erschienen ist und darüber hinaus mit einem interessanten Motiv überzeugen kann.
Fazit:
Zweifellos ist dieses Begleitbuch zum zweiten Hobbitfilm, Smaugs Einöde, wieder eine hervorragende Lektüre mit unglaublich viel Hintergrundwissen, welche ich uneingeschränkt empfehlen kann.
Zwar ist der Preis meines Erachtens etwas zu hoch gegriffen und der Umfang dafür etwas zu gering, was zum Punktabzug geführt hat. Nichtsdestotrotz sollte dieses Schmuckstück in jeder heimischen Hobbit-Sammlung vorhanden sein. Eine geballte Sammlung voll mit Hobbitwissen, großartig.
Gesamtpunkte: 4/5
Inhalt/Handlung: 5/5
Preis/Umfang: 3/5
Detailverliebtheit: 4/5
Cover: 5/5
Nach einem kurzen einführenden Text von Richard Armitage (Darsteller von Thorin Eichenschild), in welchem der Schauspieler über seine Verbundenheit zum Hobbit berichtet, wird der Leser in die Welt des Hobbit entführt und erhält dabei zahlreiche Einblicke in diese einzigartige Fantasysaga. Zunächst erfährt der Leser, was im ersten Film der Hobbit-Trilogie bisher geschehen ist, bevor es in die Charaktervorstellungen geht. Neben "alten" bzw. bereits bekannten Charakteren wie Thorin Eichenschild, Balin & Dwalin (und die anderen Zwerge) kommt natürlich auch eine Vorstellung des Hauptcharakters Bilbo Beutlin nicht zu kurz. Darüber hinaus werden aber auch Charaktere, welche zum ersten Mal in der Hobbit-Trilogie auftauchen, beleuchtet. So erfährt man, wer der Hautwechsler Beorn ist oder was es mit dem Elbenkönig Thranduil auf sich hat.
Selbstverständlich ist in diesem Begleitbuch auch eine Beschreibung der Schauplätze in Mittelerde enthalten, kurzum, alles wissenswerte rund um den zweiten Hobbit-Film ist in diesem Buch vorhanden.
Wer jetzt Angst vor einem dicken Nachschlagewerk mit viel Text hat, den kann ich beruhigen. Jedes einzelne Kapitel ist mit zahlreichen wirklich ansehnlichen und hochauflösenden Filmbildern geschmückt, sodass man neben der textlichen Beschreibung auch ein Bild des beschriebenen Sachverhalts vor Augen hat. Leider ist mir dieses Begleitbuch aber etwas zu kurz, obwohl jeder einzelne Abschnitt wirklich ausgesprochen gut gestaltet ist! Außerdem macht das Buch schon vom äußeren Eindruck einiges wieder gut, da das Buch als Hardcover erschienen ist und darüber hinaus mit einem interessanten Motiv überzeugen kann.
Fazit:
Zweifellos ist dieses Begleitbuch zum zweiten Hobbitfilm, Smaugs Einöde, wieder eine hervorragende Lektüre mit unglaublich viel Hintergrundwissen, welche ich uneingeschränkt empfehlen kann.
Zwar ist der Preis meines Erachtens etwas zu hoch gegriffen und der Umfang dafür etwas zu gering, was zum Punktabzug geführt hat. Nichtsdestotrotz sollte dieses Schmuckstück in jeder heimischen Hobbit-Sammlung vorhanden sein. Eine geballte Sammlung voll mit Hobbitwissen, großartig.
Gesamtpunkte: 4/5
Inhalt/Handlung: 5/5
Preis/Umfang: 3/5
Detailverliebtheit: 4/5
Cover: 5/5
lisa_setepenre's review against another edition
3.0
This is the second visual companion for The Hobbit film trilogy, focusing on the second instalment, The Desolation of Smaug. As typical with Jude Fisher's Visual Companions, it's aimed at younger readers, with the language is simple and easy-flowing. It's not writing that I, personally, enjoy – I like a bit more depth (okay, a lot more) but it suits its intended audience, but this book will give you more information, and thus deeper insight, into most of the characters.
I was disappointed with the selection of photos, which either belonged to An Unexpected Journey and thus already seen on multiple occasions, taken from the trailers or else were promotional photos already in circulation. There were a few new images that were quite exciting to see, especially as they featured characters that have mostly been ignored by the film's marketing team (i.e. every character that's not Legolas or Tauriel). For me. the most exciting thing was the inside cover, which brings the illustration by Tolkien for The Hobbit to life.
I did have one nitpick with the text. On page 52, Fisher writes:
In short, this is a good, though simplistic, resource on the characters and locations of The Desolation of Smaug that doesn't give too much away. For me, huge fan as I am, it's a little disappointing, but what I expected.
I was disappointed with the selection of photos, which either belonged to An Unexpected Journey and thus already seen on multiple occasions, taken from the trailers or else were promotional photos already in circulation. There were a few new images that were quite exciting to see, especially as they featured characters that have mostly been ignored by the film's marketing team (i.e. every character that's not Legolas or Tauriel). For me. the most exciting thing was the inside cover, which brings the illustration by Tolkien for The Hobbit to life.
I did have one nitpick with the text. On page 52, Fisher writes:
It may be a full century before an Elf comes to maturity and to their full growth and understanding...But, 11 pages later, on page 62, Fisher then says:
... she [Tauriel] is barely six hundred years old: hardly more than a child by Elven standards.So, Tauriel has been an adult for half a millennium, is old enough to have come to maturity and "full growth" five times, yet is still considered little more than a child? And, in spite of this, is head of the guard? I'm not trying to argue that Tauriel isn't young – she is, especially when compared to the other Elves seen in the films – but "hardly more than a child "at 600 not only seems to contradict what Fisher wrote earlier, but also sounds a bit ridiculous.
In short, this is a good, though simplistic, resource on the characters and locations of The Desolation of Smaug that doesn't give too much away. For me, huge fan as I am, it's a little disappointing, but what I expected.
heypretty52's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed referencing several story details I had forgotten, as well as seeing what new elements are being added with this second movie.
kayleighofhobbiton's review against another edition
4.0
Great infomation for people who haven't got so many knowledge about Middle Earth but I do. :D
Amazing pictures.
Amazing pictures.
ladybookdragon's review against another edition
2.0
An ok visual companion bit disappointed it recapped on all the dwarves when the same information was in the first visual companion, the space used could of been used to inform us more about the next instalment to the trilogy. The pictures are excellent however and the new information very good. Such a shame it is let down by the repetitive material from 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' visual companion, otherwise I would of given a higher rating.
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