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possessedcow  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cut to Dwarves: The Decline of Big Budget Cinema

I really enjoyed the Hobbit but I think it helps if you go into it realizing that it's a children book and that Tolkien hated writing action. I mean, he knocks out the protagonist later so that he doesn't have to write an action scene.

I wanted the Hobbit to be fun, and it was.