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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 6070874" data-attributes="member: 61026">Saw it today, 7 Jan 2013. The ending came abruptly for me--I was ready for the story to go on for another hour or so. Best part: Martin Freeman as Bilbo. His delivery of the verbal nonsequiturs was wonderful. The best one was when he was explaining to Thorin why he was still there (after the goblins), when he switched from &quot;I think of my home a lot&quot; to &quot;and that's why I'm here.&quot; Almost as good was when he stabbed a warg with Sting, and stabbed an orc with Sting, and then demurred, &quot;I'm no fighter. No burglar, either.&quot; (I may be paraphrasing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) I thought the stone giants in the mountain pass were unnecessary. I was surprised when Gandalf's staff split the rock. (I wanted to hear &quot;Dawn take you all and be stone to you,&quot; but if he said that then I missed the wording.) I expected Orcrist to be less like a cutlass. (Yes, I know it's an elven blade, but I would have been pleased to see it looking more like a falchion.) I really wanted Howard Shore to put in some (more) minor-key harmonies in the dwarves' &quot;Far over the Misty Mountains cold . . .&quot; song. That sounded like Human harmonizing. More strangeness would have helped sell it as a dwarf song. (I don't know -- more flat-fifths? minor thirds? more diminished chords? something.) I didn't like the &quot;ravens.&quot; They weren't black enough. Couldn't they use the word &quot;thrush&quot; for copyright reasons? What?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 6070874, member: 61026"] Saw it today, 7 Jan 2013. The ending came abruptly for me--I was ready for the story to go on for another hour or so. Best part: Martin Freeman as Bilbo. His delivery of the verbal nonsequiturs was wonderful. The best one was when he was explaining to Thorin why he was still there (after the goblins), when he switched from "I think of my home a lot" to "and that's why I'm here." Almost as good was when he stabbed a warg with Sting, and stabbed an orc with Sting, and then demurred, "I'm no fighter. No burglar, either." (I may be paraphrasing. :)) I thought the stone giants in the mountain pass were unnecessary. I was surprised when Gandalf's staff split the rock. (I wanted to hear "Dawn take you all and be stone to you," but if he said that then I missed the wording.) I expected Orcrist to be less like a cutlass. (Yes, I know it's an elven blade, but I would have been pleased to see it looking more like a falchion.) I really wanted Howard Shore to put in some (more) minor-key harmonies in the dwarves' "Far over the Misty Mountains cold . . ." song. That sounded like Human harmonizing. More strangeness would have helped sell it as a dwarf song. (I don't know -- more flat-fifths? minor thirds? more diminished chords? something.) I didn't like the "ravens." They weren't black enough. Couldn't they use the word "thrush" for copyright reasons? What? [/QUOTE]

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