User blog comment:Smaug the Tyrannical/So Much HATE!/@comment-25565811-20141214013034

I think it is with most films based on literature: When you first read the books and then watch the film, you are disappointed, that the characters are not like you imagined them. So you dislike the film, because it did not match your expectations in one or the other way. When you first watch the film and read the book afterwards, it is nearly impossible to imagine the characters different of these shown in the film. So your phantasy is kind of narrowed, which makes you annoyed or even angry.

When you try to make films from such epic works like the lord of the rings, or even of smaller ones like the hobbit, you must leave out a lot, just take some key scenes and flesh these out. Everyone has a different taste and so everyone would have chosen different scenes that he/she would have regarded as the most important. So, also this selection gives some people a reason to be disappointed or hateful that just "their" scene had been left out.

I think, Peter Jackson has done a great and difficult work and that he succeded quite well. The whole team has put a lot of effort in the films. They even invented different dwarf tribes, which had all their own special dialects and the actors had speech trainers to get the dialects right. I watched a lot of the behind the scenes videos, where you can see all the work that has been done, which you barely notice in the films itself. This great effort of the films matches the great effort Tolkien himself had put in the development of all the languages and history of middle earth you also barely notice in the lotr and hobbit books but is nevertheless always present all the time.