dragoness_e: (Echo Bazaar)
Dragoness Eclectic ([personal profile] dragoness_e) wrote in [community profile] fictional_fans 2019-03-24 02:17 am (UTC)

Speaking as an old Tolkien fan who thinks PJ did not really understand Tolkien's themes when he was making his movies, and also being aware that the Hobbit movies were totally screwed over by Executive Meddling and were Not Good as a result:

The one nice thing about the Hobbit movies is the characterization of the dwarves. For the movies, they were made visually distinct with individual personalities; the Hobbit book, sad to say, was a little bit weak in that department--most of the dwarves were not memorable. Sansûkh incorporates movie characters and events way better than the Hobbit movies themselves did. It also ignores some of the really stupid lore-mangling that happened in the Hobbit movies (no Nazgûl tombs, no Gandalf/Galadriel implied relationship, etc).

ETA: the first Hobbit movie did a good job at the beginning with "An Unexpected Party". It went downhill somewhat after that.

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