Perfect

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2014)

I doubt there are many people out there that have read Tolkien's books more then I have. The Hobbit is perhaps the book that I appreciated the most, through too it's more fairy tale-like style. I have have always considered the movies and the books to be completely separated work of arts, the movies were made inspired by the books and not as a way to adapt the complete story into visual form. Every time I either watch the LOTR or The Hobbit I travel back into this fantastic world of fantasy which I use to visit as a teenager. In my opinion The Hobbit and LOTR have no real competitor in genre of fantasy movies, just like the books always will stand alone at the very top, this I say after over 2000 rated movies and over 500 fantasy books in my bookshelf. Peter Jackson have done it again, a perfect fantasy movie which allow the audience to feel like a part of Middle-earth, an escape from reality that lasts about 2h 30m, completely satisfying, and thats what both fantasy books and movie is all about.
Now I wish that they decide to make movies out of Nick Perumov's continuation trilogy about Middle-earth. The books are not as good the original made by Tolkien but they would inspire to three new and even darker visits to the land of Tolkien. For all Tokien fans who haven't read the book I highly recommend to do, they are called The Ring of Darkness (Mörkrets ring in Swedish)