The Hobbit and LOTR watch order?

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ExThaNemesis
06/12/2021
10:12 AM
#1
Which order would you watch them if you were going to do a marathon?




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My gf has seen none of them so am trying to plan a watch through for us and I got the idea that maybe the Hobbit might be good first so she's not as confused by what's going on in LOTR.
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colliding
06/12/2021
11:23 AM
#2
Read the Hobbit, then read the LOTR.

But to play along, watch the LOTR only. Read the Hobbit afterwards if she must.

No one should watch the Hobbit films.
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ChainLTTP
06/12/2021
11:31 AM
#3
Why would she want to watch the hobbit if she's already dating one?
KingButz
06/12/2021
11:33 AM
#4
Topic over
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Jakyl25
06/12/2021
11:40 AM
#5
I love The Hobbit even with the bullshit love triangle

BUT Im a big Tolkien mark

Its definitely something you should watch only if she loves the LotR trilogy and wants to spend more time in Middle-earth.

She wont be confused by Lord of the Rings lol
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Steiner
06/12/2021
11:42 AM
#6
ChainLTTP posted...
Why would she want to watch the hobbit if she's already dating one?

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Team Rocket Elite
06/12/2021
11:44 AM
#7
Are any of the other Hobbit movies good? I think I remember liking the animated one but I watched it a long time ago so I'm not sure if it is actually good.
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Leonhart4
06/12/2021
11:54 AM
#8
ChainLTTP posted...
Why would she want to watch the hobbit if she's already dating one?

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ExThaNemesis
06/12/2021
12:01 PM
#9
ChainLTTP posted...
Why would she want to watch the hobbit if she's already dating one?

to see why I always say "yeah well we saved Middle Earth" when people try this insult on me!!
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ExThaNemesis
06/12/2021
12:02 PM
#10
Team Rocket Elite posted...
Are any of the other Hobbit movies good? I think I remember liking the animated one but I watched it a long time ago so I'm not sure if it is actually good.

I really enjoyed the first one. The second one was "okay" and the last was a mess.
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Xeybozn
06/12/2021
12:18 PM
#11
Leonhart4 posted...

ChainLTTP posted...
Why would she want to watch the hobbit if she's already dating one?

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MariaTaylor
06/12/2021
01:12 PM
#12
Watch the Maple Films edit of the Hobbit whenever.

Watch the Lord of the Rings first probably.

don't watch the original cut of the Hobbit. watch the director's cut if you have to. it contains a lot of good scenes that were inexplicably cut, although it doesn't doesn't remove the bad and pointless scenes. really though you should just watch the Maple Films edit. but if you're allergic to doing that for some reason then I guess the director's cut is the better of two "not great" options.

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Underleveled
06/12/2021
01:14 PM
#13
Fellowship
Two Towers
Desolation
Five Armies
Return of the King
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HanOfTheNekos
06/12/2021
01:50 PM
#14
Alphabetically.

Battle of Five Armies
Desolation of Smaug
Fellowship
The Hobbit (animated movie)
Lord of the Rings (animated movie)
Return of the King
Two Towers
Unexpected Journey
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ExThaNemesis
06/12/2021
01:52 PM
#15
Underleveled posted...
Fellowship
Two Towers
Desolation
Five Armies
Return of the King

Can you explain this?
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Aecioo
06/12/2021
01:55 PM
#16
Jakyl25 posted...
Its definitely something you should watch only if she loves the LotR trilogy and wants to spend more time in Middle-earth.

She wont be confused by Lord of the Rings lol

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ExThaNemesis
06/12/2021
02:01 PM
#17
Jakyl25 posted...
Its definitely something you should watch only if she loves the LotR trilogy and wants to spend more time in Middle-earth.

She wont be confused by Lord of the Rings lol

Fair. I couldn't remember if there was some confusing lore stuff I didn't get back when I watched it last but thought Hobbit might have been an easier entry point.
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Leonhart4
06/12/2021
02:06 PM
#18
Lord of the Rings came first so it had to serve as an entry point. Hobbit is for people who really love LotR.

(Just to be clear I'm only talking about the movies)
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Underleveled
06/12/2021
02:11 PM
#19
ExThaNemesis posted...
Can you explain this?
It's a joke; follows the same order as Star Wars Machete order (OT1, OT2, PT2, PT3, OT3)
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OrangeCrush980
06/12/2021
02:11 PM
#20
How about machete order?:

Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Desolation of Smaug
Battle of the Five Armies
Return of the King
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HanOfTheNekos
06/12/2021
02:32 PM
#21
OrangeCrush980 posted...
How about machete order?:

Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Desolation of Smaug
Battle of the Five Armies
Return of the King

Underleveled posted...
Fellowship
Two Towers
Desolation
Five Armies
Return of the King

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Mythiot
06/12/2021
03:15 PM
#22
The LOTR movies were written with the audience not having read The Hobbit in mind, so I don't think you have to include those movies. Take a few days to a week to read the book together if it's important to you she knows the story.
Mr Lasastryke
06/12/2021
06:00 PM
#23
Jakyl25 posted...
She wont be confused by Lord of the Rings lol

yeah, this. maybe she'll miss some of the details (i remember when i was watching fellowship with my mom and elrond was talking about isildur, she was like "wait who was this guy again") but the overall plot isn't hard to follow at all.
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redrocket
06/12/2021
06:18 PM
#24
Mr Lasastryke posted...
yeah, this. maybe she'll miss some of the details (i remember when i was watching fellowship with my mom and elrond was talking about isildur, she was like "wait who was this guy again") but the overall plot isn't hard to follow at all.


In any case its nothing that watching the Hobbit movies first will fix.
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PrinceKaro
06/12/2021
06:52 PM
#25
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King

then watch the three others burn in the fireplace
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WarThaNemesis2
06/12/2021
07:11 PM
#26
Return of the King, then Hobbit 2, then Fellowship of the Ring, then Hobbit 3, then Two Towers, then Hobbit 1
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KamikazePotato
06/12/2021
07:34 PM
#27
I think watching The Hobbit movies first would make the LotR movies less enjoyable, honestly.
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Leafeon13N
06/12/2021
07:38 PM
#28
I've tried to watch The Hobbit every time i get about 20 minutes in I get bored and do something else.
Axl_Rose_85
06/13/2021
04:42 AM
#29
LotR movies

LoL Hobbit.
ChichiriMuyo
06/13/2021
06:19 AM
#30
LotR movies is enough, but if you really want to add the hobbit do the 4.5 hour cut that removes everything not from the books.
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Jakyl25
06/13/2021
10:44 AM
#31
ExThaNemesis posted...


Fair. I couldn't remember if there was some confusing lore stuff I didn't get back when I watched it last but thought Hobbit might have been an easier entry point.


The only lore from The Hobbit that matters to LotR is Bilbo stole a magic ring from a creature named Gollum, and they cover that
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Mr Lasastryke
06/13/2021
10:59 AM
#32
Jakyl25 posted...
The only lore from The Hobbit that matters to LotR is Bilbo stole a magic ring from a creature named Gollum, and they cover that

they retcon how this goes in the hobbit movie, so this only makes things MORE confusing >_>
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banananor
06/13/2021
11:08 AM
#33
I'm lieu of the hobbit movies, just show that special features cut of martin freeman flicking off the camera on set 30 times
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Waluigi1
06/13/2021
12:01 PM
#34
Hobbit movies aren't that bad.
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ExThaNemesis
06/13/2021
12:59 PM
#35
Mostly love the Hobbit movies for Misty Mountains Cold and Benedict's Smaug performance
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redrocket
06/13/2021
01:35 PM
#36
ExThaNemesis posted...
Mostly love the Hobbit movies for Misty Mountains Cold and Benedict's Smaug performance

These are both SS+ God tier.
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ctesjbuvf
06/13/2021
06:05 PM
#37
LotR first for sure.
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BlAcK TuRtLe
06/13/2021
11:14 PM
#38
ChainLTTP posted...
Why would she want to watch the hobbit if she's already dating one?

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Steiner
06/14/2021
04:38 AM
#39
she can watch the hobbit while the hobbit watches lord of the rings
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Webbernet
06/14/2021
04:52 AM
#40
colliding posted...
Read the Hobbit, then read the LOTR.

But to play along, watch the LOTR only. Read the Hobbit afterwards if she must.

No one should watch the Hobbit films.


So very much this. There was perhaps about half of a good movie in that entire Hobbit trilogy. Once they started having a looney tunes style gag sequence in the barrels going over the waterfall I knew that was it, the hobbit movies were a lost cause.
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ChichiriMuyo
06/14/2021
05:15 AM
#41
Waluigi1 posted...
Hobbit movies aren't that bad.
No, they're not that bad, but a lot of it is really unnecessary filler. You can literally cut 40-45% of the runtime and have a better movie. The Hobbit should have been two movies of 120-150 mins each, not three movies of 150-180 minutes each.
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ChichiriMuyo
06/14/2021
05:19 AM
#42
Webbernet posted...
So very much this. There was perhaps about half of a good movie in that entire Hobbit trilogy. Once they started having a looney tunes style gag sequence in the barrels going over the waterfall I knew that was it, the hobbit movies were a lost cause.
There's nothing really wrong with that sequence. It's overblown, but it fits right in with the fact that (even from the source) The Hobbit is supposed to be more child friendly than TLotR.
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FelinFine
06/14/2021
08:55 AM
#43
ChichiriMuyo posted...
There's nothing really wrong with that sequence. It's overblown, but it fits right in with the fact that (even from the source) The Hobbit is supposed to be more child friendly than TLotR.
The Hobbit has an anecdote about how golf was invented when a goblins head got knocked off into a hole, its supposed to be silly.
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