[rdtsc]

> forgotten the exceedingly mediocre The Hobbits trilogy.

True. That could have been a 2 hour movie or at most two episodes. However, one difference is that the characters there do not seem that much at odds with the book or the first three movies. Galadriel in the Amazon show, on the other hand, just doesn't feel like the book or the movie Galadriel so it's a bit jarring. For their large budget, the dialog and characters should have been done a bit better I thought.

[riffraff]

> the characters there do not seem that much at odds with the book or the first three movies

well, The Hobbit itself as a book is at odds with LoTR, being a children fairy tale rather than an epic.

Just compare the scene where they get away from trolls in The Hobbit with the the trolls attacking Gondor in the movie. The change of tone is insane.

OTOH, it's pretty silly to be angry about it :)

[midoridensha]

>True. That could have been a 2 hour movie or at most two episodes.

It was: check out the fan edits. So far, my favorite is the Maple Films Edit. It's about 4 hours long and it's pretty great. It cuts most of the crap and leaves all the good stuff in.

>Galadriel in the Amazon show, on the other hand, just doesn't feel like the book or the movie Galadriel so it's a bit jarring.

Galadriel here is thousands of years younger than the version you saw in Jackson's movies or the LotR books. Presumably she's matured.

[danaris]

From what I've heard in others' descriptions of her depiction, Galadriel in the Amazon show also doesn't much match her depiction in The Silmarillion.

[kixiQu]

> That could have been a 2 hour movie or at most two episodes.

https://hobbitfanedits.fandom.com/wiki/Hobbit_Fanedits_Wiki :)

[wardedVibe]

Watched one of these (forget which), and it was actually a decent movie.