In the time between starting to write this and picking up again today I have seen The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug a second time and have had some time to think about Peter Jackson's adaptations of Tolkien's works - and I have to say I am in awe of the wonderful world Peter Jackson and his team have brought to the screen. I am in no way denigrating Tolkien's literary works or indeed, relevance in the cultural fabric that makes up our social Zeitgeist – “ go on a quest” and “ slaying the dragon” have become synonymous tropes for rites of passage that proliferated much of the fiction I was immersed in as a youth, both are lifted from Tolkien's books – yet I wouldn't swap one sun soaked second of my childhood to have full knowledge of the insides of Tolkien's books as wonderful as I'm sure they are. So you see my expertise, and expectations of the cinematic adaptations of Tolkien's books are limited to Ralph Bakshi's 1976 The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson's marvellous Lord of The Rings trilogy and the book cover below - and let me tell you Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is considerably more exciting, as he brings Benedict Cumberbatch's Smaug to life so gloriously. For years The Silmarillion and The Hobbit sat on my bookshelf less than half read with Smaug occasionally staring at me from atop his pile of gold. I must confess despite sharing the same birth land I have never completed a J.R.R. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Review
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