andrewducker | (Reply)

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That's well described, thank you.

I only saw some of the hobbit movies, but still feel like the hobbit could be good movies if they had a tone like the hobbit, not like the LOTR turned up to 12. Lots of movies have a general theme of "a fractious group of friends go on a road adventure and keep escaping dangerous places" and have "and get caught up in a scorched-earth war" only at the end, not every five minutes throughout. Even fantasy movies.

I guess that does undermine the other point that putting in some information about Gandalf's adventures with the necromancer was a good idea, because that is a bit grimmer in tone, but it doesn't mean the whole thing has to be Peril.