The surface of the unpopulated Old Earth (Earth One) was wind-blown, stormy and desolate - it was an abandoned, polluted and contaminated planet ("The oceans, the soil, neither will sustain life").For Alex, it is a moment of pure ecstasy:Alex (voice-over):And it was like for a moment, O my brothers, some great bird had flown into the milkbar and I felt all the malenky little hairs on my plott standing endwise and the shivers crawling up like slow malenky lizards and then down again.The divine-right ruler Thror was "the mightiest of he Dwarf Lords" - with a son named Thrain and a grandson named Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage).I cannot ell you how it wears me.I do not see eye-to-eye with Charles about anything...There are varieties of heroes.He""s a hero with fighting and fighting bores me.His only gift is with a sword.Chancellor: The sword has made Sweden great, your Majesty.Christina: Yes, do we not exalt that gift too much, Chancellor?Chancellor: Ah, you cannot remake the world, your Majesty.