This sums up pretty well my experience for the paris premiere of The Hobbit the 4th of december.

There’s no spoiler in this so you can read without fear.

Also I’m going to make it short because surely you don’t need to hear all that happened between 9am and 11pm!

So it all started with an early wake. I wanted to be that the Grand REX at 9am because it had been said the day before the barriere would be up at that time.

When I arrived there was already about 50 people and no barriere. I joined the queue where I would be at the front row and ended up being closer to the artist entrance than the beginning of the red black carpet. That got me a bit worried because as I was going to see the film at the end of the day and you had a time after which you would not be allowed to enter…

Anyway it was about 3 degree outside which is a big joke because last week we still had about 15 degree!!!!!!! (hence the hoodie) I made friends with a girl named Marine and a guy named Anthony, as the three of us went there alone it was great to have someone to talk to. Anyway that didn’t help us get warm.

After 2 hours only I thought I had lost my feet and fingers. We womehow made through the day and at 3 or 4pm I got joined by nellyfg!

The actors (richard armitage and martin freeman) and PJ were announced at 7pm. We couldn’t wait for them to arrive. We were cold and a very light rain started so it was now or never… they arrived 30 min late (parisien trafic).

So in the meantime the TV was interviewing some of the fans and I got interviewed by BFMTV……. lol I’m pretty sure all I said was shit but the girls said it was alright XD I made sure to mention Richard’s name as many time as I could lol I haven’t found anything on the internet so far but if you see me please tell me :p

The first to arrive was Richard and I got excited but in the mean time I couldn’t see anything until he was like 2 meter away. As you know he was wearing that burgundy/prune outfit which got me surprised but really the color isn’t bad on him. It would look better if he were tan though.

Not going into any details here, he was quite quick with everyone, not making eye contact but being focused on signing as much as he can in a very short time.

As you can see I got my poster sign but as far as I know he didn’t take pictures with fans.

Right after came Martin and he really took his time with fans, talking with them, taking pictures and by the time he got to uswe were quite excited. When he saw my poster he was worried about his pen color (my own gold one didn’t seem to work for him) so he sign on his own face.

Then it was PJ, just as Martin he was really taking his time. Whatever the fans were presenting him to sign he would take it in his hands and take his time to sign and that allowed him to speak with fans. I made him sign on my poster with Martin and while he signed it I got the chance to tell him that I had seen the film on monday and that he got me crying. He made smiled at me, thanked me and then he was off.

I was really happy but really stressed because we then had only 10 min left to enter the building!

Hopefully there was no queue anymore so I got in directly.

I had a VIP/privilege ticket which allowed me to get a glass of champagne (that I enjoyed SO MUCH like that was nearly the best thing of the night XD it got me warm as I hadn’t eaten of the whole day and all the tension of the day left my body) and some popcorn. Then inside the theater we all had package on our seats. In my bad I had a #team thranduil shirt and I was SOOO sad but then people around me told me I could go on the other side of the room and ask if someone wanted to exchange. I recognize a guy that had enter the building with me and he didn’t seem actually interested in the film or at least in the t shirt because he gave it to me! (I don’t know who you are but thank you!) So I ended up with both shirt (you can see the #Team Thorin shirt on y other post x)

One everyone was settled we got about 15 minutes with the cast. I was quite far away as this is a HUGE room (it can take up to 2000 people or something like that!). Nothing really new was said but it was nice anyway to hear them for real and you can see what it looked like here (x)

Just like that they were gone and I had to refocus on the fact that I was going to see the film. I’ve seen it early on monday so as glad as I was to see it again (on such a big screen) it was still my second time. The novelty though is that while on monday I saw it in 3D this time PJ decided that it was best for us to see it in HFR 2D. I was glad for it (first time HFR).

Not talking about the film obviously you as you’re all still waiting for the official release and you know I lvoed it! I didn’t cry this time though but I got teary eyed!

This is way too long and I’m sorry! I hope you still enjoyed reading this. Also I’ll make another more personal post about how I felt seeing Richard for the second time but I need to sort stuff out before that!