Last Defense of The Hobbit movies. February 23, 2023

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To conclude my series that defends The Hobbit trilogy, I want to say that I see why people think it did not need to be three movies, but it is not 1937. With The Lord of the Rings already made, Peter Jackson needed to connect the two stories and make the movies as prequels. Some of the additional material may not be from the book but from work Tolkien wrote that his son published after he died. You also need to be aware that when Tolkien first wrote The Hobbit, he had no idea he was writing a children's novel, even if it was a sophisticated children's novel, that takes place in a world with a history of war and violence. 

It is clear by now that I like The Hobbit movies almost as much as I like The Lord of the Rings movies. I heard some people say they should have had Smaug die at the end of the second movie, making his attack on Laketown the climax, but I didn't mind it opening The Battle of Five Armies. I agree the Beorn character was underused, and Legolas should have been just in a cameo. I didn't mind the addition of Tauriel, who was played exquisitely by Evangeline Lilly. I just think they could have done without the love triangle between her, Legolas, and Kili. It was nice seeing Radagast, who was not mentioned in Lord of the Rings, I just would have preferred if he didn't have a bird's nest under his hat. I could also do without the sleigh pulled by rabbits, but that didn't ruin anything. I like the way it showed how powerful Galadriel was and would have preferred to see more of Saruman succumb to madness. I already pointed out how critic, such as Leonard Maltin, complained about the Dwarves being indistinguishable, but to be fair, that was not much different from the book. In the book, Tolkien only described the Dwarves as having beards down to their waist and wearing different colored hoods, and aside from Thorin, none of them were much involved in the story. Last of all, I don't think it needed an R-rated extended cut, because if a movie is written to be PG-13 it should stay that way. Executives should let filmmakers make movies the rating they are written for. 

To shorten it up, I like The Hobbit movies, even if they didn't live up to the same hype as Lord of the Rings.

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