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1. Stephen Bauder
   Member

   Ok, so for a while now I've been trying to think of who the voices for the three trolls should be. These are the trolls that Biblo and co. stumble upon in the troll shaws at the beginning of the story. Later, they all enter the trolls lair and Gandalf, Thorin, and Biblo find Glamdring, Orcrist, and Sting.

   I have some ideas of who'd be good, but one actor rises above all of the others to me. Anyone remember Alan Ford who played Brick Top in Snatch (2000)? Listen to him deliver those lines as Brick Top and you can hear him quarreling with the other two trolls. To me it would be the perfect fit. I have not seen any casting for the trolls yet. I can't imagine that that suggests that the scene won't be in the movie, or that the trolls won't have any dialog.

   Other voices I think would be fitting are Robbie Coltrane, Vinnie Jones, Andy Serkis, and it might be interesting to hear Jeff Bridges do a voice.

   Posted 10 months ago #
2. Todd VanDelinder
   Member

   vinnie jones would hysterical, put him with the guy who played the drill sergent from full metal jacket and that would be some serious comic relief

   Posted 9 months ago #
3. Todd VanDelinder
   Member

   surprised they havent been cast since they filmed the troll sequence in the first block

   Posted 9 months ago #
4. Oscar Hart
   Member

   Andy Serkis will most likely do it, he did the voices of loads of Orcs in LOTR.

   Posted 9 months ago #
5. Sebastian Sanyal
   Member

   They may not have actually inserted their dialogue/audio yet, dunno....

   Posted 9 months ago #
6. Todd VanDelinder
   Member

   andy serkis or other members of the cast remember john ryes davies did treebeard and there were others who played multiple orcs

   Posted 9 months ago #
7. Harold D' Artiste
   Member

   they are different than the cave trolls or the olog hai in mordor
   in appearance they look like big fat people and they are more intelligent

   Posted 9 months ago #
8. Barndog
   Member

   The statues they become are in the extended of Fellowship. The look remarkably like cave trolls. It will be interesting if PJ follows the book and has Gandalf the trickster handle the trolls precisely as it unfolds in the book.

   Posted 9 months ago #
9. Nora Johansen
   Member

   try and find out how the norwegians trolls are (the fairytale ones), that is how I have always imagine the trolls.
   in the hobbit they have pockets.. well google'em and you'll see :) they match perfectly I think.

   Posted 9 months ago #
10. Barndog
    Member

    I think that Tolkien's trolls follow Norwegian trolls quite well. I think that PJ's trolls have already shown differently. It will be interesting to see if PJ sticks with his interpretation of the trolls which I do not see as humorous or capable of speach as Tolkien's trolls. Who knows. Bilbo certainly told the story in Fellowship much like Tolkien did. So it is possible that there was simply no need for troll dialog yet.

    Posted 9 months ago #
11. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    found this and thought it was interesting and might help with the talking not talking issue with them

    Morgoth, the evil Vala, created the first Trolls before the First Age. They were strong and vicious, but stupid creatures. Their major weakness was that they turned to stone in sunlight. Nobody knows how he managed to breed them, though it is stated by Treebeard of the Ents that Trolls were "made in mockery of" them, as Orcs were of Elves, though not necessarily from Entish stock. However, they are likely a corrupted form of some other race of Middle-earth, as both Morgoth and Sauron could only corrupt creatures which already existed, not create any anew. There is reference that sunlight will return them to the stone from which they were made

    also there were 6 different types of trolls in Tolkiens middle earth Stone Trolls, Hill Trolls, Cave Trolls, Mountain Trolls, Snow Trolls, and the Olog-hai (trolls created by sauron who could travel in sunlight not unlike the Uruk-hai)

    Posted 9 months ago #
12. Julia Mellor
    Member

    Vinnie Jones doing his cockney wide boy thing would be good, or Michael Caine doing 'you're a big man, but you're out of shape, and I do this for a living' voice from the Harry Palmer movies. also Stephen Fry or Hugh Laurie would be good.

    Posted 9 months ago #
13. RedwoodElf
    Member

    My votes:

    Bert: Robin Williams
    Tom: Tim Curry
    William: Jim Carrey

    They're all capable of the kind of shenannigans you could expect from the somewhat smarter trolls in The Hobbit. The troll Trio are far smarter than the trolls portrayed in LOTR...

    Posted 9 months ago #
14. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    I personally dont think they will chose anyone famous or huge in hollywood to play them. I think they will find someone unknown or use small time NZ actors or actors already cast in other roles to portray them

    Posted 9 months ago #
15. Nora Johansen
    Member

    NOOOO NO NO NO NO NO NO JIM CARREY! PLEASE ! HE IS AWFUL! HIDIOUS! NO!

    Posted 9 months ago #
16. Isaac Lisik
    Member

    I believe Richard Armitage said in an interview that the trolls were the same PJ trolls from LotR. I don't know how credible that is and whether the trolls he saw were just placeholders or not I don't know.

    Posted 9 months ago #
17. Hazell Silvester
    Member

    though the trolls are cleverer than the ones seen in lord of the rings; they're still pretty thick; it would have to be people with slower deeper voices. Definitely not Jim Carrey.

    Posted 9 months ago #
18. Julia Mellor
    Member

    maybe they could use the actor who plays Hagrid he's got a good deep voice, or Bill Bailie the comic. I think they should look like they are in a Grimm's fairy tale, are Pukel men trolls?

    Posted 9 months ago #
19. Hazell Silvester
    Member

    ha! Bill Bailey would actually be quite a funny troll! I think it would be quite cute if they let John Rhys Davies do one of the voices, a sneaky way of being in the hobbit!

    Posted 9 months ago #
20. Julia Mellor
    Member

    maybe Omid djalili could be William the kebab eating Troll, Bill Bailie could be Bert the pie and eels eating troll, and Johnny Vegas could be Tom the fish and chips eating troll.

    Posted 9 months ago #
21. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    joohn rys davies would be great cause the he wouldnt have to endure the gimli make up again that he had such a reaction to last time and from what i read he wants to return to middle earth to the point of "begging" PJ to get him there again

    Posted 9 months ago #
22. Nora Johansen
    Member

    Yeah, John Rhys Davies and Bill Bailie would be great :D And Hagrid x)

    Posted 9 months ago #
23. Barndog
    Member

    I think they will look just like the statues from the extended of Fellowship. I do not know if they will talk. I like the troll seen from the books but I am not sure those statues come to life will be capable of the bumbling of the trolls from the book. But at the same time in Fellowship Bilbo told the story just as it happened in the book so we will have to see.

    Posted 9 months ago #
24. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    since so many people want Viggo Mortenson back maybe he could be one of the trolls voices Yeah thats it... Viggo, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monahan there's 3 more LOTR cast back... LOL just a thought, not a serious one but a thought... Seriously though it will be interesting to see what they do from the designs from the Hobbit since the trolls were already sort of established in FOTR

    Posted 9 months ago #
25. Richard Cieslik
    Member

    the trolls HAVE to talk, there is no way to effective;y do that scene with mute trolls. I do find it a bit hard to believe that the trolls would just "forget" about the dawn, that would be like a human "forgetting
    they can't walk off a cliff, even if they were arguing with another.
    They might play up Gandalf's role, implying he deceived them as to the real time as well...who knows?

    Posted 9 months ago #
26. Stuart Carrier
    Member

    Ayup All...

    I think it's a pity that the guys who played the trolls in the BBC Radio adaptation are prob'ly dead and can't do it again. I'm just listening to them, on my BBC Cassettes, and they're perfect. perfect 'East-End' Trolls... Just like wot my head thinks they should talk like. Give one voice to Barry Humphries...

    Posted 8 months ago #
27. Julia Mellor
    Member

    I think the trolls should have cockney accents as tolkien wrote them.

    Posted 8 months ago #
28. Todd VanDelinder
    Member

    Vinnie Jones thats as Cockney as ya get right there LOL

    Posted 8 months ago #
29. Julia Mellor
    Member

    I quite like the idea of Bob Hoskins, or Keith Richards, or maybe Jagger, they all have cockney twangs.

    Posted 8 months ago #
30. Stuart Carrier
    Member

    Oh No Julia !

    Can you Imagine a Steve Wright in the afternoon (UK DJ folks) Jagger-Troll ? That's Priceless ! :D

    You made me hurt my chest Laughing ! ROTFLMAO !

    Posted 8 months ago #

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