The thing with Gollum is that he still had the Ring with him. Once he lost it, he began to actually age, rather than just change. So him looking cleaner (I thought he looked younger) makes sense (especially considering that he had just been in a lake).

On the subject of humor, I think that Gimli wasn't overdone. I think the humor helped highlight that he was a great warrior, rather than making it seem that he wasn't (except the warg fight, that was just lame). Legolas didn't have that much humor because he was thousands of years old and an elf, so he's expected to be serious. Aragorn has the weight of saving the world on his shoulders and stopping Saruon, so he should be serious. Gimli, however, is a dwarf warrior, whose people were literally made to combat evil. As a natural warrior, he wouldn't think too much of dying, letting him laugh in the face of death and still get away with it.

Also on the subject of humor: http://i.imgur.com/d3NiH.gif That should make everyone's day.

Gandalf never got around with magic, he used horses pretty much every single time (thus Shadowfax), so I think that Radagast having some way to get around makes sense. Whether it should be a chariot pulled by woodland creatures, I'm not too sure about.

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Looks like an average day at the firehouse mess table.
Really excited after seeing these trailers. Nothing wrong with a bit of light humour in the right places. Awesome stuff.

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I'm not convinced at all. Kinda a big disappointment. CGI looks horrible. Further, you can spot the fat suits, fake body parts etc. much to easily. Lots of work to do. I'm still hoping.

trailer was awesome! Since everyone talks about CGI, i never liked CGI to much, but i don't think i will let it spoil the fun of watching this movie - trailer is very promising (Hope they won't let me down!)
It would be great if they used more animatronics again. Saw an animatronic for a movie once that was quite creepy. Unfortunatly that was just as reference for the actors. They replaced it by bad CGI afterwards.
http://youtu.be/fBzpT7VmSaU
the thing - that was it

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the only thing about fake body parts and stuff that really stuck out to me was the top of Bombur's head! it looks like a piece of plastic! but either way this still looks amazing and I'm super excited

I'm with you when It comes to dwarves. Balin's head looks entirely plastic.:/

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i wasn't happy with the dwarves at first either when i saw them on the pictures but when moving i found them out to be quite ok.

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I saw thsi trailer when it was on the sky homepage. Looking good, apart from Radagast's bunny sleigh, and the hammer in the head of course.

Nice Stone Giants I must say. Nice humour too.

Anyone who was surprosed about the Wargs redesign must've been asleep for months. The theory about the difference between Isengard Wargs and Northen Wargs makes sense, though Sauron must've stolen a few of the Isengard ones for his Captains inc. Gothmog though.

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Considering that Saruman just copied everything from Sauron (though he would have said that he came up with it first), it makes perfect sense that Gothmog would have a warg. The size difference between the 2 breeds of wargs makes sense too.

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