Jesse James’s Reviews > The Hobbit, or There and Back Again > Status Update

The more I read of this the more I get into it, I'm imagining it totally different to how the movie portrayed the story which is a good thing, glad that the Hobbit and even the Dwarves are finally being useful! Why did I doubt Tolkien? Haha

The more I read of this the more I get into it, I'm imagining it totally different to how the movie portrayed the story which is a good thing, glad that the Hobbit and the Dwarves are finally being useful!

The main characters almost never get themselves out of a jam or fight anything and there's 13 damn dwarves! So far only Bilbo did with the one ring which at this point is just an ordinary magic ring.

Okay so I seem to have this problem every time I read a classic, I've got a similar feeling as to when I read Starship Troopers

It's like, yeah okay they were the first to do it and all but like, the writing conventions for back then aren't what they are today and the language being has evolved to different meanings!

About a quarter way through it, Elves are way different to how they're portrayed in the films, so are dwarves to be honest and quite honestly, I am enjoying these versions better!

Am still glad I started with the Hobbit, I couldn't deal with a huge read of Tolkien tbh, am enjoying the story enough but it's just... actually not my thing really.