timdiggerm said:

AntcuFaalb said:

generalfrevious said:

SilverWook said:

Well, it's not like there aren't other adaptations out there. ;)

http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/9-wonderfully-bizarre-hobbit-adaptations-including-one-from-soviet-russia.php

All of them are probably a hundred times more faithful than Jackson's cash-grab sodomy, designed to piss off all Tolkein fans. No one can like the book and the movies at the same time.

I haven't seen the this film (The Battle of Five Armies) yet, but I'm a big fan of the The Hobbit as well as the two Peter Jackson films of it that I've seen so far.

And I like The Hobbit much more than any of the three LotR books.

And I like the two Peter Jackson The Hobbit movies I've seen so far much more than any of the three LotR films.

So what now? Am I not a "true fan" of Tolk(ei|ie)n? Good.

Well, given that you prefer Jackson's versions to Tolkien's....

Ah, I didn't word that clearly enough. Here's a better expression of my preferences:

([The Hobbit book] ≈ [The Hobbit movies]) > [LotR movies] >> [LotR books]