Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit
The Unexpected Journey

This postcard is postmarked in 2014 with a Great Britain Queen stamp.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is the first installment in a three-part film adaptation based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is followed by The Desolation of Smaug (2013) and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), and together they act as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The story is set in Middle-earth sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings, and portions of the film are adapted from the appendices to Tolkien's The Return of the King. An Unexpected Journey tells the tale of Bilbo Baggins, who is convinced by the wizard Gandalf the Grey to accompany thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug.

The cast shown on this card are (from bottom left going around clockwise with Richard Armitage (Thorin) in the center: Aidan Turner (Kili), Dean O'Gorman (Fili), James Nesbitt (Bofur), Ken Stott (Balin), Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Graham McTavish (Dwalin) and Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins).
Great Britain stamp 2014
Queen Elizabeth II
Purple 97 p
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Here is an advertising postcard for the movie soundtrack from Russia
Original Soundtracks
Zum Film Von Peter Jackson! 
(The Film from Peter Jackson!)

The Hobbit
An Unexpected Journey

Musik vom Star-Score-Komponisten Howard Shore!
(Music from the Star-score composers Howard Shore!)

Titelsong Von Neil Finn (Crowded House) 
(Title song from Neil Finn)

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