Tolkien is rolling in his grave

Rating: 1/10 (14 December 2012)

This is not "The Hobbit" it is a fantasy story that uses similar names and scenario to portray a pop culture, cheesy actioned ADHD and altogether shallow portrayal of something similar to what Tolkien wrote. Even Tolkien himself said - others are inclined to say that any two stories that are built round the same folk-lore motive, or are made up of a generally similar combination of such motives, are "the same stories." Statements of that kind are not true, they are not true in art or literature. It is precisely the colouring, the atmosphere, the unclassifiable individual details of a story, and above all the general purport that informs with life the undissected bones of the plot, that really count. It seems to me that the essential quality and aptitudes of a given language in a living monument is both more important to seize and far more difficult to make explicit than its linear history. I would say: "We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us. By "the soup" I mean the story as it is served up by its author or teller.