The worst part is, the Hobbit was such a beautiful book, it was almost like Tolkien said

"You don't need a huge issue threatening the entire world or a heroic, selfless always right hero to make a compelling fantasy story"

I remember Smaug's voice shaking the entire theater and being so blown away by the audio mixing in that part.

The Hobbit, a book with the moral "don't be greedy" gets a movie adaptation that's splits one book into THREE long movies with EXTENDED VERSIONS.

I will never not laugh at the fact that they had Thorin charging out with the ringwraith theme playing like it's his battle theme.

That bit where you showed Christopher Lee talking about his motivation . . . that's Christopher Lee in a nutshell.  The man has never turned in a bad performance even when he knows he's in something that's total crap because he believed it was what he owed the audience.  They paid money to see the film and they deserved to be entertained by something, so even if nobody else cared, he would.  He put his all into EVERYTHING he did and worked hard to craft a unique performance for every character he played.

God, I miss Christopher Lee.

“I wish I had as much fun at anything in my life as Cumberbatch does playing Smaug.”

...yeah, me too.

I’m beyond saddened we’ll never get del Toro’s whimsical two-part adventure, with nice balance of small scope and dark undertones

"Gandalf, she’s married!" has got to be one of the funniest lines, in context, ever read.

Legolas running on a collapsing bridge is a perfect metaphor for literally the entire thing.

I feel...thin...stretched, like...one book adapted into three movies

the relationship between kili and the elf is soooo wattpad. after knowing each other for like 3 days “it hurts because it was real” GIRL HUH?!

Thranduil in the book was not a greedy jerk. After Laketown was destroyed, Thranduil went to help them and, after they reached the mountain, only supported the Lakemen’s claim to the treasure. Bard rewarded him richly afterwards, but Bard was the one who got most of the share. And Thranduil was the one who counselled restraint and patience to avoid going to war over gold. Thranduil in the book was interesting to me because he was an antagonist but not a villain.

Seeing how enthusiastic Smaug is about gold and has built in fire breathing, one would suspect he would know melting point of his favourite thing.

"Gandalf she's married!" still remains one of my favorite quotes from Lindsay

"Why does it hurt so much?"


Because you asked for no unnecessary love triangles but the writers gave you one anyway

31:49 Them using the ring wraith theme in the wrong spot reminds me of the first time as a kid, I heard them use the Akatsuki theme in Naruto for a random filler episode for some random garbage and just thinking "...what?...no...you can't do that..."

"Why does it hurt so much!?"
"Because I'M LOSIN' TO A BIRD!"

Rumor has it that most of the money spent on turning Benedict Cumberbach into a dragon was actually the money they had to pay to convince him to become human again afterwards.

The whole “faithful adaptation vs Lotr prequel” idea reminds me of how, according to *History of The Hobbit*, Tolkien attempted a full revision/retelling of the Hobbit in 1960 that would fit tonally with lotr and fix all the continuity mistakes, but abandoned it because it had lost all the charm of the original version.

I could watch an hour of Benjamin Cumberland crawling around on the floor pretending to be a dragon