
Saw the Hobbit yesterday, and was not impressed ( as I wasn´t by the first part of it either, as I wasn´t by the LoTR´s trilogy at first). Peter Jackson´s films take quite a time for me to get accostumed to them, before I irreversibly fall in love with them- or not, as it was with the first part of the Hobbit. The Desolation of Smaug is a beautiful film that has next to nothing to do with the original book, but that does´nt matter. A film is a film, a book is a book, and the Hobbit is a children´s book, unsuitable for cinematization the way it is written. It is not what Peter Jackson has done to the book that makes me shudder but the variety of possibilities of what will possibly happen in the third part. See, my mind is an eager one, creating various scenarios of the characters´ future. Whom will Peter kill off in the next film? Thorin he must, or he´d bereave Thranduil of the heart-rending scene when he places the Arkenstone to his opponent´s grave ( but what if he wants to keep the gem, which would be so very Thranduil-like?). Btw. I love this Thranduil to bits, finally an elvish ruler not that soft and plushy (see Celeborn or Elrond, I would not have believed the last one to have been a warrior once, if Jackson had not put him into a fighting gear at the beginning of the Fellowship. Nah, I only was jesting, I´ve read the books. All of them. A long time ago.), but stiff-necked and downright haughty, just the way I like it when it comes to elves. Will Peter kill Fili and Kili (that would be canon, but, as said before, Mr. Jackson does not give a damn about canon), or will he let one of them survive? What about Tauriel, will he kill her off, too (Yes, please, do me a favour! She´s pretty, she is a fighting machine who holds her bow not the wrong way round but rather awkward, but her grin is creepy)? Worst scenario: He´ll kill Thorin plus his nephews but lets Kili have a hot love affair with that elvish bitch before (and she´ll bear him twin sons. Oooouch, the mere thought of it hurts). But that´s what my brain does all the time- creating worst case scenarios in a row, out of involuntary hints. At least the upcoming third part of the film won´t shock me anymore. Fortunately my bad English keeps me from flooding my journal with scribblings like "The Rewrite of theHobbit- A comedy in five acts" or "Willy and Billy-The Bow-twanging Bastard Dwarfs of the Lonely Mountain"!