Great film, but too attached to the LOTR trilogy

Rating: 8/10 (17 December 2012)

OK, I can start by saying that this film definitely is a must see for every (or not) fan of the Tolkien universe, but, this time Jackson is abusing from his success of the LOTR trilogy. There are too many obvious connections between these films, that The Hobbit loses some of it's "fairy tale" original author's intent. I'll recommend this film over and over again, but again, as a Tolkien fan-atic, I miss the little Hobbit tale..it relies too much on the past films, and I don't think it should be like that. The Hobbit had a great potential even without all this stuff brought back again... The thing that leaves me with a question is: if LOTR book is a 3 hours each film trilogy, and it's a 1500 (ca) pages long, why the hell The Hobbit should be as long as that? Now it seems sort of offending to the greatness of LOTR, to put 9 hours of a new trilogy in a 300 pages (ca)... IMHO...