Tolkien junkie here as well. I’m on my 17th reading of the LOTR. Good on you for having issues with “license”. But I still loved every minute of each movie.
haha. Good for you. My kids make fun of me because I keep re-reading the book. Christopher Lee is reported as saying that he reads the book once a year. What a fantastic story.
I’ve read The Hobbit and The Trilogy every year since 1972, when I found the boxed four-volume set in an office supply store.
The Hobbit movies, in my estimation, are an expansion of the lives and history of the Dwarves, and I like the literary license of that expansion. I mean, were it not for the Dwarves in the Unexpected Journey, and Gollum’s entry, there would have been no LOTR.
Just sayin’.
If you lose your ability to allow literary license, and can’t accept another person’s perception of events as established by yet a third person, then you have lost much more.
I’m happy with all of them, though there are bits and pieces that don’t jive with my mental pictures, I won’t complain about someone else’s mental pictures. Especially since he makes those pictures come to life.