Can't compete with the "Lord of the Rings" But adequate for a Tolkien fan

Rating: 8/10 (21 December 2014)

Yes, they did laugh at me when I was the only one who clapped at the end of the movie. They would look at me as if I were crazy when I could perfectly lip sync at some instances specially the scenes from the previous movies. The staff would stare at me with scorn in their eyes. In their opinion, a homeless drunkard with nowhere better to go on a Saturday night who would even be glued to his seat five minutes after the credits, the last to leave the theatre. Oh well, What would they know of a sixteen year old who would hide his 50th anniversary edition of the Lord of The rings under his history text book, trying to trace Frodo's journey from Bag end through East Farthing on the map that was on the last page, while he was supposed to learn to mark the Panama canal on a world map. I can still mark the maps of the western lands of Middle Earth, Shire and Gondor better than any "real" map. I have read the book so many times that I could afford to make a bet with my mother on a page number and I would precisely turn to that particular page within 3 tries. Maybe I must tell my mother to send me my book or to bring it when she comes to see me. Knowing her, she might say its way cheaper to buy a new one. TBH "The Hobbit" wasn't great, they stretched it too much. They tried to make too much money out of a movie which portrayed greed as the ultimate cause of destruction. Maybe my standards are too high. Maybe I never liked The Hobbit. Maybe I know nothing about movies. The Hobbit series never gave me the raw emotions that the lord of the rings movies gave, specially The Battle of Five Armies. But nevertheless, thirteen years, that's how long it has been from 2001 to 2014. Peter Jackson might still make one more movie on Tolkien's work. It's been often said that thirteen is not a lucky number.