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Oh. So it looks like people don't like the Hobbit as much because it's not as faithful to the story that Tolkien wrote.
I have never read any of the books (plan to sometime in life), so it's all good to me. It may seem filler to the Hobbit readers, but for me, I would love anything that brings me back into the world of Middle Earth.
The Lotr middle earth stories are up there with the Star Wars universe. The thing is, Lucas is still alive and Tolkien is not. So Lucas can write, pass on and bless any SW related stories which means unlimited SW content for the rest of our lives. However Tolkien isn't around to write or bless secondary work, so we are pretty much left with what he wrote almost a century ago.
I have never read any of the books (plan to sometime in life), so it's all good to me. It may seem filler to the Hobbit readers, but for me, I would love anything that brings me back into the world of Middle Earth.
The Lotr middle earth stories are up there with the Star Wars universe. The thing is, Lucas is still alive and Tolkien is not. So Lucas can write, pass on and bless any SW related stories which means unlimited SW content for the rest of our lives. However Tolkien isn't around to write or bless secondary work, so we are pretty much left with what he wrote almost a century ago.