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I declare eh. It was alright, not great. Stretching with filler from the appendices was a mistake. That stuff wasn’t necessary or essential, that’s why it was in the appendices not the main story in the first place. And putting it in a movie is basically hitting the pause button on the real story. What made his LOTR movies work was he got it down to brass tacks, no Tom Bombadil, no lame songs, none of the meandering asides that make a good book but not a good movie. He’s making the Hobbit in exactly the opposite way. It’s not bad, but it shows why the cuts he made in LOTR were right. Hobbit would have been better as one movie, cut to the chase. Maybe 2 movies, keep a good chunk of the fluff.