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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      Particularly given the fact that Tolkien served in WWI and lived to see WWII, this feels... powerful, somehow. Appropriate. Not at all like a distortion of the Hobbit, but an acknowledgement of the themes that ultimately governed his take on all Middle Earth.

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      It's fun to clown on The Silmarillion as lots of wars over jewellery, but what sticks about Five Armies is that, even though it's the same premise, nobody truly gets what they want in the end, because the jewels are proven of hollow value next to the value of life.

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      Thorin wants the Arkenstone; he only gets to hold it again in death, because of his hubris. Thranduil only gets involved to get his elvish jewels back, but seeks them so ruthlessly that he loses something greater: his son. Gold is hubris for characters minor and major.

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      I'm always going to love the original LOTR films (and I may yet binge their extended editions too, because see above, re: raccoon person) but I think I might actually prefer the Hobbit trilogy - or its ending, at least - to the ending of Return of the King. It feels more human.

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      The ending of LOTR is exhausting because it's exhaustive, trying to wrap up every lose end and show us how the world was fixed and made perfect forever - meaning, how it became narratively static. But at the ending of Five Armies, the world is still the world.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      Also, on a practical note, I liked that the Hobbit films, unlike LOTR, had visible background POC (the bar is SO LOW), had the women of Dale fight in the final battle, and, yes, introduced an extra female character because Tolkien was good at languages, not ladies.

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    7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      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.

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    8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020

      Seeing how low-ranked Five Armies is compared to the prior two, I can't help feeling that people were angry it was a tragedy instead of triumphant: that Thorin became flawed and cruel; that the hot dwarves died; that the world wasn't fixed by a pointless battle.

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    9. Hog and Dice‏ @TheHogandDice 15 Mar 2020
      Replying to @fozmeadows

      Everyone who died died in the book though. It's not like fans weren't expecting it. All of the Story Beats (except the love triangle) were fine and good as you said. But (at least in the theatricle versions) they felt eclipsed by pointless spectacle, like the barrel scene.

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    10. Nathan @ 1312‏ @churchofwolves 15 Mar 2020
      Replying to @TheHogandDice @fozmeadows

      This is my take too. I had less issue with the narrative beats and more with the fact that the films had turned into a series of tonally incongruent action setpieces. Thranduil skewering a dozen orcs on his riding elk's antlers and decapitating them in one swipe, for example.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 15 Mar 2020
      Replying to @churchofwolves @TheHogandDice

      Honestly, I'm here for ridiculous action sequences involving weird animal mounts. They're a fairly big part of the original film trilogy, too, so I was ready for and expecting them again.

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        1. Nathan @ 1312‏ @churchofwolves 15 Mar 2020
          Replying to @fozmeadows @TheHogandDice

          You're right. The whole bit with the Mumakil in ROTK. And that means I can't complain about the goofy giant trolls on bladed peg-legs either.pic.twitter.com/xZN81Ce1Av

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