Don't listen to the critics (from a big Tolkien-reading and LOTR movie fan)

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2012)

The critics try to compare this movie to LOTR and that is why they are disappointed with the outcome of this film. LOTR is a more mature movie based on a more mature book series. The Hobbit was made as a children's book and therefore the movie comes off a bit more childlike.
The movie itself was epic! Peter Jackson once again proved he could recreate Tolkien's world. Although there are some minor points in this film that have been added, eliminated, or altered from the book, Jackson did a great job and the movie was stunning and entertaining. It is impossible to take a book and remake it into a movie without some inconsistencies. There were some in LOTR that some people may forget. Jackson has added some material from Tolkien's The Silmarillion into the Hobbit that was otherwise mentioned briefly or not mentioned at all in the Hobbit in order to build up the story for LOTR which happens after the Hobbit.
I encourage all LOTR to watch this without fear of being let down because of what the critics are saying. I also encourage those who may have never read the Hobbit to READ IT before seeing this movie. Spots that are vague in Tolkien's writing are open for imagination. Those points of imagination are filled with this movie.