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Post #614919

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Tobar
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The Hobbit movie: Dwarves
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Date created
14-Dec-2012, 5:33 PM

It's odd. I enjoyed the film while also being disappointed by it. It was an enjoyable film and they got a lot right but they lost something.

Right now I'm reading the Hobbit for the first time and what I've enjoyed the most about it is Tolkien's dialog and characterizations. The way he writes the interactions between the characters just leaps off the page for me. Which is why I was so disappointed that Peter Jackson took it upon himself to rewrite almost all of it.

I could understand embellishing things that were left vague in the book like "then they agreed that they should stay for the night." Making up something for that would be fine but the dialog in the book was so perfect why mess with it? As for his other embellishments like Thorin's hate for Elves, the white Orc or the whole Radagast portions of the film, I can't comment on. So far I've only managed to read maybe a chapter past where the film ended and this is my first time reading Tolkien so I'm not that familiar with the lore.