Will The Real Hobbit Please Stand Up.

Lately I've been reading, a lot.  Which of course is a good thing!  At the moment I'm re-reading The Hobbit to try and get the atrocious movie "The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies" out of my head.  Think of it as brainwashing...but in a good way.  Like giving your hair a good double shampoo...but on the inside.

I am a huge fan of JRR Tolkien.  I have loved his books, reading and re-reading them for years.  And when the first of the Lord Of The Ring movies came out I wasn't all that thrilled. But then a good friend, who's also a fan, saw "The Fellowship Of The Ring" and assured me it was true to the book and wonderful.  So I watched it.  It was good.  There were changes here and there, but quite a bit of the original language and flavor of the book was there.  So I enjoyed it. I felt though that as the next two movies came out things changed more and more.  Also I was not a fan of Jackson putting himself and his children in the movies as *cameos*.  Hard to keep up the allusion of watching fiction when you suddenly saw them all over Middle Earth.

All in all though I've come to like the movies.  I see them as completely separate from the books.  Even to the point of having different boards on Pinterest, one for the movies and one for Tolkien.

Then news came out of him making The Hobbit into a movie.  At first I was happy enough about it.  I figured it would be much like The Lord Of The Ring movies.  Slowly it came out that it wouldn't be one movie (which was a shock since The Hobbit is a shorter book then any of the other three parts of the Trilogy).  Then came the word that it would be three movies!!  And that there would be characters in it that weren't in the book.  By the time I actually saw the movies I was very disappointed to find that the three movies bore little resemblance to the book I loved. 

I didn't enjoy either the first or second installments of the movies and absolutely hated the third.  I'm sorry to say that we have actual physical copies of them.  I don't want them and don't expect to watch them again.  They are little blue disks that remind me all movies should be purchased in physical form only after you've watched them five times digitally, and can't live without them.