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xhonzi
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2-Jan-2013, 1:16 PM

Tobar said:

Basically you hate J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and wanted a prequel to Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy.

 

xhonzi said (in ink!):

Not terrible.  Fun, but not the experience I was hoping for.  

I still think I overall liked it, but here are the reasons I'm not over the moon.

10/14 party members

Hey now... is 10/14 (~7/10) equivalent to hate these days?  I didn't hate the smoothie (this term doesn't seem to be taking off the way I hoped) but I didn't love it.  Nor do I hate the book.  I have fond memories of reading it as a child, but as a thinkining man, I struggle to reconcile it with LotR...

I think Tolkien changed his mind as to what Middle Earth was betwixt the writing of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.  The Goblin king, in the novel and all adaptations I've seen, seems to have just finished taking his afternoon tea when the party bursts in.

I don't think any goblins in LotR take tea.

Since The Hobbit already exists in its current form as a book and a cartoon, I was hoping that the Jackson team was going to bring the story more in harmony with the adjusted world of the Lord of the Rings.  They did somewhat- the Elves that appear in the 2012 film are definitely the elves from LotR books/films and not from the 1937 novel.  I just wish that the Trolls and the Goblin king were given more of the same treatment, though that would have had a more destructive/reconstructive effect than the changing of the elves.