"The Hobbit: There And Back Again" To be Renamed "The Battle of the Five Armies"

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by tom the eldest

Massive fan of tolkien works?he even almost never read lord of the rings.he simply read it in a flash then put it down,never to read it again.

I’m sure Jackson is a fan– it’s not that, really, it’s the idea that this automatically makes any decision of his correct. That’s literally the extent of the reasoning here:

Jackson is a creative and a massive fan of Tolkien’s works – this change is the right decision for the film and the right decision to honour J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary classic.

Note that though this refers to the name-change, it’s a general all-purpose defence– as is a good deal of the article.