/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>65270571
All entertainment media is 'pointless' anon. Nothing 'needs' to be made, that's moot point.
The valid critiques towards The Hobbit Trilogy are that it took massive deviations in the canon of the lore and Tolkien's intent of portraying Middle Earth. And that it didn't need to be a trilogy, The Hobbit was a tiny book Tolkien wrote for his children, it didn't contain enough material for 3 full feature films, 2 would've been enough, but Jewllywood sticks to it's traditions like they do sacrificing children to satan.

One of the most glaring lore crimes the movies commited was everything about Legolas (he wasn't in the story) and inside that, an even bigger felony, the relationship between Thauriel and Kili. Not only it never happened, it never WOULD'VE HAPPENED. Tolkien meant for Gimli and Legolas to have the closest Dwarf-Elven relationship in the history of middle earth.

Some of the backlash was so great because anyone who's deeply familiar with TLOTR understands the people who made these movies had no respect for the source material, and when the source material happens to be the foundation of most western/European fantasy, well, you see what happens.