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Watched a few movies. :)
Heads up. Amazon is removing The Hobbit movies from their list in a week.
Such beautiful movies I could watch them all the day. Everything is a joy to see and the story is good too.
The costumes , the jewellery, the furnishings, the weaponry, armour, the calligraphy, the saddlery and other leather work, the carpentry. All the artisan work is so beautiful.
My favourite scenes are the Stone Giants, reading the moon runes, Kili and Tauriel, and finding the gate.
Anyway, it made me remember I have two acorns I picked up in the oak forests of Pennsylvania on a stop over on a road trip with my bestie Tam. I'm keeping them until I have my own settled place when I can try to grow some oak trees.
Welcome back!
Ooh, thanks for the heads up, I should watch them!
So I watched The Hobbit trilogy for about the tenth time and I think I get why they are flawed. It's not something I've read, 99% of lotr fans say it's because it doesn't follow the books or is childish or has extra story lines.
To me that's not a problem, movies are a different form of storytelling and books needs to be adapted and changed for the screen.
I think it's flawed because there are two voices in the story telling. The first is story telling as a child's story. This has world building and explanations. I really don't enough about writing to explain, I just know it when I see it.
The second voice is the same voice we hear in the LOTR movies, adult story telling. The world is not explained, it is.
Mixing the two doesn't work. I'm surprised at jackson , walsh and boyens , they know better.
So I agree that 2 movies was a necessity if they wanted to tell the story of the geopolitics of middle earth and the hobbit story.
It's still really good tho.