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Originally posted by Giant Hamburger
Hail Logerine!
It is definitely not worth seeing. Words can't describe how bad it is even if I spoke in the tongue of Mordor. It is thoroughly unwatchable. It is also a musical. It does not follow the story very well at all and the songs they sing are not even Tolkienesque. The Hobbit is the best of the lot and then they get worse by leaps and bound with each additional movie. I would rather pull my eyeballs out than watch Return of The King again. Even my 3-year-old daughter thought that it sucked. She might even pull her eyes out if I told her we had to see it again. Avoid this like the blackest of plagues. If you see a friend holding a copy, knock it out of their hands. We should never speak of this again.
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It seems that you've spared me a great deal of torture. Certainly I had no idea how terrible it is. The Hobbit was pretty good I thought. Althought the cartoon left out the "Queer Lodgings" chapter and an important character -- Beorn. I've read the book, seen the cartoon, and even saw a stage play this past October based on The Hobbit.
On a side note: You know, I can't remember seeing the word Shire once in The Hobbit book. When I saw the play, it drove me nuts when they kept calling Bilbo's home "The Shire" when in the book it's called Hobbiton. I am correct on this am I not? The Shire is only mentioned in LOTR books.