Bad news for Tolkien readers

Rating: 2/10 (19 December 2014)

I know movie making is all about the money, and I know not every book is easily adaptable to film, but I feel the writers took way too much creative liberty in this adaptation.
I don't know if it was arrogance, laziness, apathy, or maybe they just read the wrong book; whatever it was, they forgot or failed to realize why the LoTR films were so widely loved: they closely revolved around an amazing piece of fiction written by a genius (JRR Tolkien). Every scene, every piece of dialog; viewers were seeing and hearing bits and pieces of a brilliant set of books that inspired future authors for decades.
The Hobbit films are, at best, "inspired" by Tolkien's work. Most of it is the witty, cheeky ideas of the writers. While it makes for a very entertaining set of films (I admit), it will leave you feeling very unfulfilled if you came with high expectations; because Jackson didn't put his heart into these.