Comments | marcochacon: The Hobbit

marcochacon

The Hobbit

Jan 04, 2013 12:14

This isn't a review--and it'll be full of spoliers.

Early on in The Hobbit we see the elder Bilbo writing his memoirs of his adventure ("There and Back Again"--which i exactl the kind of title a hobbit would give that adventure--it wouldn't be "How I Pwnd Smaug"). The narration has us hear him write the opening line of the actua book The Hobbit ( Read more... )

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kanook January 5 2013, 18:24:20 UTC

I'm with you 100%. I don't get all the Hobbit-hate going on. Everything that PJ added was very much in-universe could have easily been written into a full story by Tolkein himself if he was so inclined. I thought it definitely added some depth to a lot of the rather shallow characters from The Hobbit (in particular Balin, and the whole Dwarven race in general).

catbear January 6 2013, 12:47:56 UTC

I find The Hobbit to be a bit of a slog as a book. It's written for kids so a lot of the language is dumbed down. And it's very simplified in terms of plot. I feel pretty strongly that what Jackson et al did is take the children's Hobbit and rewrite it for adults with extra background and better dialogue and more mature concepts, and then film THAT. And it totally worked for me!