ANYWAY. I bought & binged the films because social distancing, figuring I could at least say I'd seen them and be done with it. I didn't expect to enjoy them as much as I did, and I'll be interested if there's anyone else who comes back to them with a different view.
Visually, I liked making white orcs the bad guys here, after all the dark-skinned uruks in the original trilogy; just a little less colonially gross, you know? It also kind of felt like Azog was a way to have Thorn fight himself, a sort of literal metaphor for toxic obsession.
-
-
Like, he's been hunting a white stone, which is his poisoned legacy, while thinking he's better than the greed - both literally and metaphorically Azog - that killed his grandfather. Azog is like the Arkenstone's curse on Thorin's family made into a fightable nemesis.
-
Absolutely. I haven't read The Hobbit for years. Time to put it back on the list.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.