Arguably new Hobbit trailer hits the ‘net August 6, 2012 By Earnest Cavalli (DIGITAL TRENDS)

Thanks to roughly three seconds of new footage, our headline is technically accurate.

Hey guys! Come check this out! A brand new trailer for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy tome The Hobbit appeared over the weekend! We’ve got it embedded below, but first we should probably cover the necessary disclaimer.

When we say “brand new trailer,” what we actually mean is “this trailer, which was hyped as new by other people long before we lazily deconstructed that phrase, contains about three seconds of never-before-seen footage from The Hobbit, while the rest of it has already appeared in the trailer for The Hobbit that was attached to theatrical screenings of Pixar’s Brave.” Yeah, we realize that’s something of a disappointment for all you Tolkien fans, but rest assured that we felt just as let down as you do now when we first came across this footage.

That said, there’s probably at least a few of you who never saw that last Hobbit trailer, so for that minority this should be something of a wonderful, geek-scented treat. Plus, let’s be honest, you hardcore Tolkien nerds (read: the sort who have that previous trailer seared into their memory) would watch this thing anyway, if only to comment on how little of the footage is novel. So let’s just watch the thing and whine about it afterwards, k?


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