The Hobbit, the beginning of the journey

 

 

 

 This trilogy was also made by Peter Jackson and was released between 2012 and 2014 and this time those movies are based on an only book and they are more close to the book than the trilogy of the Lord of the Rings.

 This trilogy used more CGI than the previous one and it made Sir Ian McKellen cry a lot during the shooting due to his nostalgia of the first trilogy.

Peter Jackson recast the same actors for the characters who appear in both trilogies. Those movies are presented as flashbacks of Bilbo Baggins who wrote his story. It was put in place at the beginning of the Lord of the Rings, the moment when we can find Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins) and Ian Holms (old Bilbo Baggins).

The cast remains good but there's still imperfections, for example the actor who plays king Thranduil (Lee Pace) is two years younger than the actor who plays his son, Legolas (Orlando Bloom) ; except this issue about the age for the actors Lee Pace depicts the elf-King of Mirkwood extremely well with only a few informations about him in the book.

This trilogy, as said at the beginning of the article, is closer to the book than the previous movies about this universe, and I wonder if it would have been better if Peter Jackson did a trilogy for each book to remain closer to the books, if we put aside the question of the budget; with this question we can also wonder if it would had work as it did.

A good point about this trilogy is that Peter Jackson added what Gandalf was doing when he wasn't with the dwarves and it was well written because it warns us that a danger is crawling in the shadow; the book is written with the point of view of Bilbo (who obviously didn't knew what Gandalf was doing).

4.9/5 those movies are so good that I don't want to leave but the use of CGI, which is more present than with the adventures of Frodo, doesn't give the same effect as in the Lord of the Rings, which seemed more realistic due to the few uses of this technology.

 

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