Comments on: Dori, Nori, and Ori

By: Maria Ladd

Maria Ladd — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:13:00 +0000

Thank you for sharing all this information with your fans and friends. Good luck on your continued efforts, I eagerly await the moment, you finally sit back and beckon us over with, “come friends, have a look.”

By: Gern Blanston

Gern Blanston — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:18:00 +0000

Sorry, but Nori looks like a tool with the ‘star shaped hair’. I think the character designers were into Lisa Simpson waaaay too much!

By: Danas

Danas — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:03:00 +0000

I think Ori has a great dwarf face despite the lack of beard. These 3 dwarfs have few beard but lets see in the end. I think Nori and Dori are in war uniform ready for the battle of five armies. Then the lack of colour can be explained. Ori seems like a traveller.

By: HappySlasher

HappySlasher — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:55:00 +0000

At first I thought the beards looked too short but if you look more closely the beards are all tucked up and braided. The one on the right has his beard tucked into some kind ornamental tube. If they undid the braids and let their beards down they would be much longer. The one in the middle is a younger dwarf who’s beard is still growing. Not sure about the star hairstyle and the eye brow braids on the left one. I like the costume and weaponry. I think PJ will be avoiding the more childish elements of the book in order to make it fit seamlessly with the visual style and flavour of the LOTR films. As long as there are no major changes like the elves at Helms Deep, or Arwen saving Frodo from the Nasgul, or Aragorn riding over a cliff etc, then I will be happy. Quite exited to see some of the back story added in such as the white council and Gandalf scouting out Dol Guldur, as long as its faithful to Tolkien’s writing.

By: Eledhwen Peredhil

Eledhwen Peredhil — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:26:00 +0000

Definitely do NOT like the hair style of the one on the left!

By: Mejoyh

Mejoyh — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:09:00 +0000

Mmmmh… Wondering if it’s not a hairstyle but rather some sort of hat or crown…?

By: Parkoid

Parkoid — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:04:00 +0000

Love the dwarfs, i guess they had to make sure each dwarf looks dramatically different to we could tell them apart, we can’t have a load of Gimli clones running around.

By: thinker

thinker — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:44:00 +0000

sorry, they look so-so, the one in the middle looks too much like a human, like a monk…or Dwarf-geek! and his beard, why is it so short? Dwarves had very big beards, a rumor has it that they were born with it !!! He looks like being in his puberty…Their faces are too much like humans’. I wasn’t expecting gimli-clones but more dwarvish faces. I was expecting to see a face and say “yes, this is dwarf”, and here I would say “some guy, human being”. And yes, their clothes are not so colorful like in the book, but this is just a detail. Maybe I’m overreacting. Will see in cinema.

By: Deano

Deano — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:08:00 +0000

Need more beard!!!

By: Victorllisterri

Victorllisterri — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:07:00 +0000

I think those designs are a bit too far from the general idea of dwarf we all have in our minds. I mean, originality is always welcome, but there is an original work that the Hobbit-movie team should take as a referent to respect.
Tolkien always emphasized on how long the beards of the dwarves are, and here we don’t see this… but okay, let’s give it a try, looking at it again it beggins to look cool.

BUT, knowing how Tolkien loved to describe every detail, if there was a dwarf with a star-shaped hairstyle we may probably know it
That star-shaped hair is the most disturbing thing to me, it makes the character look like a goth-dwarf who likes to play Mario Bros all the day, and get dressed with weird cosplays to go to manga conventions or so… ;-((

By: Ron Leighton

Ron Leighton — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:51:00 +0000

I think I saw these guys in Venice, CA.

By: Mike Hensley

Mike Hensley — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:03:00 +0000

they are far more colorful in the book as they all had hoods of bright yellow or blue