http://www.listener.co.nz/entertainment/film/down-the-rabbit-hole-a-review-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey/ Political, Cultural and Literary life of New Zealand Tue, 21 May 2013 17:45:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.listener.co.nz/entertainment/film/down-the-rabbit-hole-a-review-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey/comment-page-1/#comment-1257 drjo Sat, 29 Dec 2012 06:07:39 +0000 http://www.listener.co.nz/?p=79168#comment-1257 Interesting take on a wonderful film version that adds greatly to the twenty first century version of Tolkien's world that Wingnut are bringing us. Nothing wrong at all in my view in taking elements of Middle Earth history as detailed in the Hobbit, LOTR appendices, silmarillion and lost tales and bringing them into the story. Tolkien did this himself all the time. Jackson would have done the work a disservice by only reproducing The Hobbit as a narrative.<span class="safe-comments-report-link">Wrong usage of print_flagging_link().</span> Interesting take on a wonderful film version that adds greatly to the twenty first century version of Tolkien’s world that Wingnut are bringing us. Nothing wrong at all in my view in taking elements of Middle Earth history as detailed in the Hobbit, LOTR appendices, silmarillion and lost tales and bringing them into the story. Tolkien did this himself all the time.
Jackson would have done the work a disservice by only reproducing The Hobbit as a narrative.Wrong usage of print_flagging_link().

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