# Talk:The Hunt for Gollum

Ref: "It takes place seventeen years after Bilbo Baggins' 111th birthday party and just prior to Frodo Baggins leaving the Shire (Middle-earth) for Rivendell"
This should read:
"It takes place seventeen years before Bilbo Baggins' 111th birthday party and just prior to Frodo Baggins leaving the Shire (Middle-earth) for Rivendell"
This is because Gollum is DEAD within the year following 111th birthday party!  Make sense?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.240.121.3 (talk) 04:13, 27 May 2009 (UTC) 

In the books' timeline, Bilbo's 111th birthday is in 3001, and Gandalf doesn't visit Frodo and tell him to leave the Shire until 3018.  Most of the events of The Lord of the Rings take place in 3018 and 3019.  (See Timeline of Arda.)
The Peter Jackson films skipped/condensed this 17-year delay for dramatic purposes.  I'm not sure whether the chronology is completely clear in The Hunt for Gollum, or how much this fan film follows the timeline of the books vs. the Jackson films.  But if the intention was to follow the books, then "17 years after" would be correct. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 05:31, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

The Hunt for Gollum VFX at VFXWorld. —Erik (talk • contrib) 00:05, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

This article says that the story is based on appendices written by Tolkien, and gives three references. However, none of those three references say any such thing. Most likely, someone is confusing this movie with "Born of Hope," which actually is based on appendix passages. Miconian (talk) 22:11, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

The references are more for the entire sentence, not particularly the "based on appendices" part. But the BBC reference (#2) does indeed state that it "was inspired by the appendices from Tolkien's fantasy epic." I wish I could give you an exact citation of where in the appendices this is discussed, but after a quick ransacking of my dorm room, I have discovered that I somehow managed to leave all 3 of my copies/sets of LotR at home. Someone else want to help out with the exact quotation? It's just a couple sentences about how Aragorn helped Gandalf hunt for Gollum and eventually ended up in Mirkwood. Legolas makes a passing reference to this at the Council of Elrond. I think it's somewhere in "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen". Princess Lirin (talk) 22:45, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Added the quote as reference to first para of the article Robert Walker (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 08:20, 28 February 2011 (UTC).

Although, perhaps bias, this list of press from the official site is a good place to start for critical reception stuff, i.e. to links to the full reviews/mentions-in-passing. Also, this 'behind the scenes production video' is a good place to start for the production section. Thanks! Alex Douglas (talk) 02:49, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

With a new and professional film of the same name in the works, it might need to be distinguished from this one. See here: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-movie-2026-release-warner-bros-1235997102/amp/ KnightofFaerië (talk) 12:48, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, this article will become "The Hunt for Gollum (2009 film)" and the new one will become "The Hunt for Gollum (2026 film)" or whatever it turns out to be. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
This move should not have been made, there is only one article named "The Hunt for Gollum" so adding disambiguation is inappropriate. If the new film is released with the currently announced title, which is technically considered to be a working title at the moment, then the article for that film will be at The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum which clearly has natural disambiguation. Any confusion caused by the similar names can be covered using hatnotes. This article needs to be moved back to The Hunt for Gollum and a hatnote can be added pointing to Middle-earth in motion pictures#Return to live-action films (2026) until the article for the new film is moved to the mainspace. - adamstom97 (talk) 18:44, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

As a reader, when reading off-wiki about this film, my tendency here was to just search for "The Hunt for Gollum" instead of the full title. I felt a bit WP:ASTONISHed to wind up here, and I think it's undue weight to have readers arrive at this fan-film article instead of the relevant section at Middle-earth in motion pictures § Return to live-action films (2026).
So I would support moving this fan-film article to The Hunt for Gollum (2009 film), having this title redirect to the section, and providing under the section's heading a link to the fan-film article. The RM discussion above was fairly recent, though, so I'm not sure of a good time to revisit. Please ping me if you have thoughts or want to revisit. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 16:18, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

See the threads above; the community has twice this year rejected that proposal. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:18, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Chiswick, as my comment shows, I acknowledged the RM discussion above already. There was no "second" rejection; the second thread was a continuation of the first. Consensus can change. I shared my experience as a reader. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 11:36, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
You are free to air your views. I oppose any such move. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:13, 23 October 2024 (UTC)