Battle of the Five Armies is a soulless end to the flawed Hobbit trilogy

Ars' resident Tolkien nerd on Peter Jackson's problematic final chapter.

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Wickwick[/url]":1ycpb5f5]The LotR trilogy is really six books and in three movies with 9? hours of film they couldn't even work in Tom Bombadil.

The Hobbit, is a children's book with more deus ex machina scenes that I dared remember. And that was stretched into an equal number of hours.

And enough with the tie-ins between LotR and The Hobbit already! Elrond, Gandalf, Bilbo, and Gloin (father of Gimli) should have been enough.

Always been one of my major complaints about The Hobbit trilogy. The movie always reminded you that you were in middle-earth.

Boy was that other middle-earth movie really really good and this movie is good too but oh boy that movie was really really good. *insert young Gimli pictures here*