WOW...."Good Morning."

Rating: 9/10 (13 June 2013)

Amazing. Simply Amazing. For those fans of the Lord of the Rings Movies, there are the hints of impending Darkness. For those fans of the original books by JRR Tolkien, the humor and story are almost perfectly in alignment with the original book. For those who read the "Silmarillion" and the other historical books containing the full mythology of middle earth it incorporates almost all of the knowledge of Middle-Earth history at that time, at the cost of a portion of the story, of course. Some Major changes, the Lady Galadriel and Sarumon the White make an appearance. Also, Radagast the Brown makes his first true appearance in ANY Tolkien-based media. The unwitting traitor/liberator/traitor again/true natural wizard who was only mentioned in the original "Hobbit" book as a passing comment, being used as "Gandalf bait" by Saruman and being Gandalf's liberator in the "Fellowship of the Ring" and unwittingly giving Saruman control of the birds in the "Silmarillion", is completely glossed over and he is given a new role serving as a warning of the coming darkness. I liked it, but it wasn't truly giving "Saruman's Fall Guy", as I call him, justice. All in all, it was a brilliant retelling of the original.