the-hobbit:

“No there’s no instruments, it was a real shame. There’s a great picture in one of the books I had of Thorin and his golden harp. It would be a nice image to see him pull out something and sing a gentle song, but there’s no room for it really. There’s so much happening, there’s so much action. I don’t know, maybe at Beorn’s house — as they’re settling down for the night. It was just never part of Peter’s vision. In another version of the movie, maybe.”

Richard Armitage (The dwarves are very musical characters. Does Thorin get to pick up an instrument?) [x]