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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Hesster56[/url]":2oxfkfc9]I don't mind having this discussion, but it could be a bit off topic.

Bombadil doesn't work in the movies.

There's nowhere between A Shortcut to Mushrooms and The Sign of the Prancing Pony to drop "and then our characters spend a long weekend having brunch with God."

He's only as much God as Gandalf. He reigns supreme over his garden but not (necessarily) outside of it. At least the Ents did ask about Entwives in the movies. That's about all we get in reference to Bombadil. Oh, and the Barrow Wights swords just happen to show up in Strider's hands.

Or Gandalf said "Aragorn, you'll be meeting between two and five Hobbits at the inn. Please have some sort of weapon for them; they need to learn how to defend themselves."

And Bombadil has been referenced as "older" than the the rings, which puts him as outside of the effects of the Ring's powers and the world around him.

There are many characters older than the rings -- Galadriel for one. That doesn't put her outside of the effects of the ring's powers.

 

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Here's the only review that matters to me, from my 11-year-old: "That was great!"