The Hobbit: Witty "unexpected" pun subtitle
Welcome and welcome back! This blog has been dormant for some time, and don't expect this post to revitalize it. It will remain dormant for a while - I am in the midst of a super demanding post-grad program that sucks all my time all the time. Except for the next few weeks - it's vacation. Which is excellent news - because I really wanna write a post about Peter Jackson's The Hobbit! I specifically refer to it as Peter Jackson's, and am tempted to refer to Peter Jackson's Middle Earth, but that might be giving him too much credit. However, the movies are decisively Peter Jackson's, and not much of Tolkien's. That's no bad thing - the movies are excellent - but let's separate the source material from the interpretation, as wonderful as the interpretation in. I have only some gripes about the movie. I have lots I really enjoyed. But my gripes are important. But first let me explain what isn't a gripe of mine. ...