My daughter gave me the second installment on DVD as a birthday present. Halfway thru, I kept looking at my watch and wondering why they didn’t have time for the good parts of the book, but had time...and time, and time, and time...for nonsense fillers that had nothing to do with the plot. By the end, I concluded Jackson was just pissing on the audience and waiting to see if they caught on.
The guy just does not have a clue about plotting or story. And long before the end, I was utterly sick of the Matrix Elves. If one elf can kill 150 orcs without getting a scratch, then they had no excuse for not ridding Middle Earth of orcs forever.
Its a shame, but the TV movie “The Hobbit” from years ago was much closer to the spirit of the book.
Are you taking about the 1977 NBC cartoon?