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Originally Posted by davem
Not sure I qualify as a 'fan' exactly. I liked a lot of the film - though I'm sure with repeated viewings I'll find stuff that I like less and less. I have, a I've gotten older, gone more and more off this whole 'I'm more informed on the minutiae of Tolkien's works than you, so you must be a pathetic wannabe. What I took from that review was that the guy genuinely loves Tolkien's creation and wanted to give movie goers some sense of the background behind the story. Yes, it is just a bloody film, but in the end its also just a bloody book, and neither should be used as a weapon to attack others with 
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Well,
my impression of the article was very much that
the writer was doing precisely that– playing
"I know more about Tolkien than you, na-na-ni-na-na". It is, after all,
titled "Dislike Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit'? Then you don't know Tolkien."