LogFAQs > #913801899

The problem with the hobbit films is the book was written before the lord of the rings books, before Tolkien had even conceived of all that stuff. The Hobbiy is a kid's book. The lord of the rings is much darker and more complex. But since they made the LoTR films first, and they used the same characters/actors where applicable in the "prequels", they had to tie the stories together. So what you've got is this children's story with occasional horrific tonal inconsistencies and characters who hadn't been written yet thrown in for recognition and unneeded continuity. Not to mention that the characters in the hobbit films who were not in the books are stealing screen time from characters who were, and so we're left with like half the company of dwarves having fewer than 5 lines of dialogue each in the entire trilogy. They have no personalities and are completely unmemorable because they literally don't do anything worth mentioning.

I'm not even going into the shit lazy CGI or Legolas and his bullshit magic elf phsyics. Literally the jarring tonal shifts and under developed characters are enough to ruin the film.
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