Spoilers are included, so be forewarned.
- This is a fun fantasy adventure movie. I didn't really notice the hours go by.
- It is not Tolkien. It is one of those movies BASED on the book; it is not an adaptation of The Hobbit, or a retelling, it is something "based" on the novel using kinda the plot line, characters with the same names,
- Peter Jackson loves a fight scene
- He also loves to make things fall from heights....rather like a ride at Disney
- Surprisingly, Jackson has read T. H. White....or watched the Sword in the Stone I suppose.
- Jackson's Thorin like his Aragorn and Elrond....well let's just say they all follow a story arc cooked up in a *bad* creative writing class (there must be tension, oh, something happens, tension resolved and change of heart. OMG!)
- Thorin is more like Aragorn should have been
- The movie is far darker than the novel.
- I wonder if the goiter on the Great Goblin was over done homage to Dame Edna?
- Two things stood out as fabulous: the landscape and the sets. The Hill, Rivendell, the wilderness, even the goblin's cave was well conceived
- Overall, overlooking the unnecessary changes to the book, the scene with Bilbo and Gollum was well done
- That said, what is truly missing is the important inner dialogue of Bilbo as he's lost in the mountains
- Uh...the Witch King and the nine aren't dead. Can't be by definition. So no tombs.
- somethings simply don't follow--I must say that Middle Earth is much smaller than Tolkien imagined in the movie
