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Favorite part of LOTR/Hobbit
Least favorite part of LOTR/Hobbit

Going old school but least favorite: Brother Theodore's Gollum. He creeps me out

My least favorite part is the way the special effects look at times. Sometimes the green screen feels overdone and cheap and it takes me out of the story. LOTR I can kind of forgive but somehow it got worse in the hobbit? They needed more practical effects/makeup/sets/etc.

Favorite part is the characters. And the world as well, even if the special effects didn't always pull it off.

Favorite: Faramir and his loveliness.
Least favorite: When these two were together on screen together looking like this.

Excuse you, Gríma is beautiful

I actually really liked Grima in the movies. I thought he was kind of attractive in a weird way. I never had any interest in him from the books but the chemistry between him and Karl Urban was awesome.

I had a super crush on him in middle school, honestly. I don't know what it is, but he really is weirdly cute.

Look

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I never said I had good taste

watch ur mouth, that's my OTP

Even though it wasn't accurate, I really liked a lot of the costumes and architecture.

I hated anything PJ added to the books, but especially Tauriel (not because she wasn't in the books but because she was handled in an atrocious manner).

Favorite: costumes, most of the hobbit and elven architecture/design, the music, anything with the Rohirrim.

Least Favorite: Legolas' gravity-defying collapsing staircase run in Battle of the Five Armies, pretty much all of the filler in the Hobbit movies.

The Legolas thing is a hundred times better if you play 90s video game music in the background. Super Mario World, maybe.

Favourite parts: The characters, scenery, costumes and the music. The music is amazing.

Least favourite: Legolas being way too overused in the Hobbit, Smaug's death being at the start of BoFA(should have been the culmination of DoS if we stick with the three movie format), the Hobbit movies being three movies instead of 1-2.

Seriously, why was Legolas even there? That should have been a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo, not a freaking subplot.

The good: I think NZ was a good choice of location to shoot and they did well getting trained horses and decent stunt riders (something that I notice). The musical score was great. Happy Shire music gave me warm feelings. I like movie Gandalf.

The bad: The pacing and tone for the Hobbit could have been way better. I'm sad that Tauriel was created and then just abandoned to live a long depressing life. I wanted an alternative ending and I would have paid good money for it. Never enough Beorn. Legolas in the Hobbit and his weird creep face.

The weird: Movie Elrond. Sexy Dwarves (Dwarrow?). I know that the Hobbit is a very different story to LOTR but sometimes the movie went too far trying to be funny and then the shift back to serious was too sudden. What LOTR did with battle scene humour, The Hobbit didn't quite grasp.

Books (LOTR): Boromir's death scene, the scouring of the Shire, Lothlorien, The whole scene of Frodo and Sam and Gollum in Mount Doom and the destruction of the Ring. Aragorn and the Mouth of Sauron (the scene in the book where Aragorn respects and understands his rival is great, I hated that Aragorn killed him in the movie).

Movies (LOTR): Boromir's death scene (spot on adaption). Theoden and the Rohirrum coming to the aid of Gondor. That whole scene and Theoden's speech was great. Gandalf vs. Balrog. Whole Lothlorien scene. Ents vs. Isengard. The lighting of the beacons. The scene right before it, which was the reveal of the Witch King and Mordor's army as Frodo and Sam and Gollum begin to climb the stairs. Aragorn's coronation.

Book (Hobbit): Bilbo and Smaug

Movie (Hobbit): The final scene of AUJ where Thorin and Bilbo's friendship begins, the opening scenes of AUJ with the introduction of Erebor and Smaug and then the dwarves in Bilbo's home. All the Dol Goldur stuff. The spiders scene. Bard kills Smaug. The beginning of the battle of the five armies (dwarves vs. elves and then all vs. orcs). Thorin's death scene and Bilbo's goodbye. The extended edition scene of Thorin's funeral and Dain becoming king.

Fave LOTR: Beautiful settings and attention to detail that was simply incredible
Fave Hobbit: Richard Armitage as Thorin, Graham McTavish as Balin

Least Fave LOTR: Arwen's life being tied to the ring
Least Fave Hobbit: Too much Legolas, too much Laketown, too much Bard, too much Master of Laketown, fucking Alfrid, hot mess of the final battle, disappointing special effects

Favorite part of Hobbit: I actually really liked the portrayal of Smaug for the most part. The Gollum scene was also good, and I liked seeing Christoper Lee as Sauruman one last time.

Least favorite part: Most of the added material that wasn't in the book made it drag. I didn't need the extra Legolas stuff, for example, and I didn't find the romantic subplot especially interesting.

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