I thought the whole point of the Hobbit was to integrate many parts of Tolkien's works into the main framework of the Hobbit. Honestly, even tho it dragged a bit here and there, I am loving these movies way more than LoTR, book or movie. The Hobbit is a good, relatively well written book. The LoTR is a dungeon master that's narcissistically held you captive in his basement while he shows you all his figurines.

No fatigue here, it is not like I have rewatched the rings, nore have I re read the books in any way since the movies. While I am not excited about the hobbit as I was the ring, I enjoy them alot (even if jackson stretches creative licensing a bit far with the river romp in the last movie) and this one looks to be just as good.

I personally think that the first two hobbit movies were more entertaining than the LoTR movies, simply because they were creative in their story telling rather than glued to the rather subpar writing of Tolkien.

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Dwindling optimism that it recaptures the feeling that made the LOTR movies so much better than the first two Hobbit movies.

Apathy towards 3D and discontent at HFR.

The Hobbit Fan nerd was filming in portrait mode. Tsk.

I was originally on board with the idea of expanding the Hobbit to fill in the back story of Lord of the Rings. I always thought it was odd that Tolkien just threw in this world shatteringly important event that happens off page.

But so far the two movies have been disappointing. Too long and too many improbable chase scenes. The whole pointless "dwarves vs Smaug" fight scene was just awful.

Holmes and Watson were decent enough in their scenes, but yeah, there was just way too much filler.

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Lego is just another corporation making money. Why is a relationship with Shell any different than their other corporate relationships? (The Simpsons, Ghostbusters, Star Wars, The Hobbit, DC Comics, Disney, Marvel, Indiana Jones etc). Because it's good publicity... people don't like "dirty" energy. Shell may be a bunch of assholes, but if you're going to slam the industry Greenpeace, make sure you don't drive a car to work, and you might want to reassess how far you look down your nose at companies like Shell when you send a pollution spewing, fuel sucking Sea Shepherd out to make a TV show, surrounded all day long by polymer materials made mostly from the gas and oil that make your life easier and less costly. Hypocritical bunch of bullying asshats that will fuck anyone over for some publicity.

Yo, dumbass, the 300 were Spartan, not Roman or Trojan.
It's interesting to me that people still pay attention to this gay fish and his hobbit woman. What's up with that?
I'll admit some of 'his' music is OK, but I rarely like the lyrics and never his 'singing' or 'rap' (they can't overproduce it enough to make it 'good' to me), and I don't think he writes the music.
As a person, he's just a bad train wreck.

He should have went around asking for "Hobbits?"

Colbert has weird ears. I think he might be a hobbit. Or the only funny vulcan.

I'd concur but I'd like to see you (or Cracked I guess) expand on just how many parallels can be made.

I'd start with the opening of the Silmarillion, the creation story that is pretty much a better version of Genesis (the gods singing the universe into existence). Then I guess quite a bit of the rest of the Silmarillion is pretty Old Testament-ish; lots of begats, chosen people being kicked out of/leaving Eden/Valinor, more angry and active creator(s), etc.

I suppose maybe that makes the Hobbit and LOTR itself the New Testament, but no parallels are jumping out at me there. Frodo dies (almost) and then comes back to life, helps everybody out, and then ventures off to Valinor, so maybe he is Jesus...

I'll arrive as a probie and leave hobbitted.

Same as it ever was...

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