The Hobbit movies – Lee Duigon

The movie industry takes great liberties with books when they turn them into movies; and no author was ever more abused by this than J.R.R. Tolkien.

Would he have even recognized The Hobbit after Peter Jackson finished screwing with it?

A Tale of Two Hobbits

Well, you have a not-that-long novel, and you want to milk it for all it’s worth, so you pad it into a vast movie trilogy… which means you’ll have to add a lot that was never in the story. I can imagine Tolkien running screaming to the sidewalk when he saw what they’d done to his story. But of course they waited till after he was dead to do it. (Gorgeous Invincible Elf Warrior Woman… excuse me, I’m going to be sick…)

I’m a long-time Tolkien fan, but I steered clear of all the movies. It’s impossible to imagine anyone less Hollywood than J.R.R. Tolkien.

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The Invincible Female Warrior who’s not in the freakin’ book… and Tolkien never said his Elves have Mr. Spock ears.

Whenever I think about maybe someday, somebody making a Bell Mountain movie, a report like this makes me cringe and shiver.

https://leeduigon.com/2014/12/22/a-tale-of-two-hobbits/

I do understand the unavoidable necessity of making some changes when moving a story from the printed page to the big screen. But the changes made in these “Hobbit” movies, had J.R.R. Tolkien lived to see them, would have killed him dead.

Their very existence proves there’s no such thing as a vengeful ghost.