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Despite numerous (and sometimes quite substantial) edits for the book's second and third editions, this means The Hobbit at times feels a bit disconnected from the rest of the Middle Earth legendarium. The Hobbit was first published in 1937: 17 years before the publication of The Lord of the Rings in 19, before much of the world-building that Tolkien did for those books and the posthumously published The Silmarillion had been thought out. WikipediaLet's start with the good stuff. I ultimately came away disappointed in the movie, but not in the way I thought I would be. On the other, a much-criticized decision to make The Hobbit into three movies has only exacerbated fears that it would be a cash grab lacking in the care and craft that went into either the books or the first film trilogy. As a fan of both, I've been awaiting An Unexpected Journey with some excitement, but more apprehension: on the one hand, it's a chance to revisit Jackson's lovingly rendered film version of Middle Earth.
#THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY MOVIE#
In the meantime, I wanted to really examine the film as it relates to The Hobbit and also to Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, then distill the many mixed reactions I had during and after the movie into something a bit more coherent. I haven't read every posthumously published scrap about Middle Earth that Tolkien's son has seen fit to compile and publish, but my credibility as a Tolkien nerd should go unquestioned.Īpple Editor Jacqui Cheng, Social Editor Cesar Torres, Lead Developer Lee Aylward, and I will all be discussing An Unexpected Journey, the first of Peter Jackson's long-awaited Hobbit film adaptations, on Friday's upcoming episode of the Ars Technicast. I continue to make a point of reading through all of the books (and their appendices, at least the ones that aren't concerned with Elvish grammar) at least once every couple of years or so-even making it through The Silmarillion two or three times. The Lord of the Rings trilogy followed when I wasn't much older than that. Tolkien's The Hobbit when I was no more than eight or nine years old. If you haven't read the books and want to be surprised by the next two movies, do not pass beyond this point. As such, it will spoil not just the movie and the book, but probably also many elements of the next two Hobbit films. Before going forward, an important spoiler warning: this article assumes that you've seen An Unexpected Journey and have read The Hobbit, and takes no pains to avoid spoilers for either.