I’m going to be harping on this theme continuously, but when you are adapting three novels into 10 hours of screen time, you need to be efficient. Things
Adapting a beloved novel is always going to be difficult. One with as much backstory and history as Tolkien puts in his works might seem nearly impossible to
We get our second glimpse of the dark riders. I’m thinking Peter Jackson hired the costume designer from Scream. Or maybe Scream 3. Minutes Watched: 40.33 Number of
Gandalf just told Frodo that Isulder took the ring from Sauron. That’s the third time this trivial piece of information has been mentioned. When you are trying to
I’m assuming this scene wasn’t in the theatrical version, but now we see Gandalf entering the archives and learning about the ring of power. It even cuts to
This is a nice moment. Bilbo, one of the greatest characters in the history of literature, finds it is difficult to part with the ring. Even after Gandalf
Nothing that we’ve seen so far suggests the opening montage was in anyway necessary, and I am more and more convinced that it was a huge mistake. Bilbo
I still wish they had made The Hobbit first, because that’s the proper order of things (this isn’t Star Wars after all), but I like the various allusions
