http://hikarievandar.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] hikarievandar.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] evandar 2013-01-13 08:06 am (UTC)

"So! I have made this wicked creature! Er...what does it eat?"

The Thorin in the book wasn't an overly sympathetic character at all IMHO, and I hated him as a kid - especially after how he treated Bilbo over the Arkenstone. But his backstory was mostly skipped over, and I think I prefer the exposition in the films since it's made me like him a bit more.

I am also fully supportive of further exploration of the Necromancer/Sauron. So far we've basically got "he's eeeeeeeeeeevil, lookit his ugly eeeeeeeeevil servants, and the eeeeeeeeeeeevil fortresses: we must smiiiiiiiiiiiite the eeeeeeeeeeeevil" without any, actual visual representation of the evil in question.

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