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Just came back from theatre, Hobbit part 3 it was, of course. I already had agreed to do this with son, daughter and some friends of her, so no wriggling out of this. What can I say? I was not impressed, but that is a typical reaction of mine, when I´m pretty sure in advance that the film will upset me, and upset I was! It was a film about war, with the dragon dead before the film even got into stride. Peter Jackson let his imagination run free, and that guy really has lots of big ideas! I can live with that, I can live with Thranduil being a jerk,though a gorgeous one, though there were a few hints, and hints only, of why he might have acted the way he has, which is way more than the literary Hobbit offers. Scenes of real tragic are rare, there should be more of it, for the first time I favoured the romance between Kili and Tauriel, because it seemed so real, especially if one does not get enthusiastic about Galadriel wandering around, good son Elrond, Saruman and crackhead Radagast in tow, to save Gandalf. Man! Elrond must have been pretty frightened when seeing mother-in-law in full swing! We got the full range of orc war equipment and some really awe-inspiring battle trolls or whatever those were, glorious elven armaments, the obligatory eagles, plus a wondreous battle stag, a combat boar and some unfortunate moufflons??? who had to carry the unfortunate dwarfes to their place of demise. When Billy Boyd sang his Last Goodbye (that song is really good!), I got up and left, and I felt sad because this time there would be no "until we meet again". Then again, one of the scenes which affected me most was, when Thorin examined the Elven necklace, and I thought of Nauglamir, and maybe there´s more to come, but then I remembered that only recently I had found a photo of a young(er) Ian McKellen and the way he looks like now, and that´s when I realized that my Middle Earth trip had come to an end, because there should be no film about ME without McKellen,and boy, that was hard to accept! Hey, I´ve been living there since I was ten, when mum gave me the Hobbit to read- in English, as if I´d grown up speaking that language! Peter Jackson has only visualized what I had imagined all these years, before he had captured the tale of Middle-Earth on-screen, and for that I am very grateful!