Are we talking movies or books?
I recently watched the hobbit extended editions and it has good moments, but it doesn’t carry the spirit of the LoTR movies.
I never really saw the bonds build up much, and the corruption of Thorin was too sudden, as well as his redemption.
It felt like it was going more for action vibes than that slow pace of pushing against the unfathomable together.
The Hobbit book is excellent, I read it several times as a kid and loved stuff like defeating the trolls.
In the movie gandalf reveals the sun to the trolls which I think takes away the spirit of bilbo’s trick.
Thorin just immediately going “fuck this hobbit dude” was so jarring and cliché. I looked up Azog just now to double check and apparently this fucker died ONE-HUNDRED-AND-FIFTY YEARS before the Battle of Five Armies?! But his son was there and they could have used Bolg?! Also they completely removed Bilbo’s role in defeating the trolls and just had Gandalf save them by breaking a rock?
The Hobbit is the only book I’ve read more than once and yet I won’t even watch the second or third movie and that makes me, honestly, kinda sad. But I still have the book, and that’s a happy thought.
Just get yourslef one of the fanedits and enjoy a much improved film. I recommend the M4 book edit. Sticks to the book as close as possible.
How can I get this?
I think if you just search for it one of the results should be the website and you can download it from there.
Should be this one link
In fact, Azog is not seen or referenced until The Battle of the Five Armies portion where he is introduced as a nameless Orc villain.
I’m already sold. This sounds amazing.
I love the basketball court noises in Saruman’s sanctum, like the wizards are going mano-a-mano in their best Air Jordans.
So is LOTR written in the style of The Hobbit? Because I gave up quick on the later.
It’s been a long time but IIRC The Hobbit is written for a younger audience, LOTR is harder to read and has a more serious tone
The Hobbit does grow more serious as it goes on, the first third is… an experience to read, i agree. LOTR is much more serious, the elves are much more the wise old beings (still jovial at times, but in a less childish way).
