It seemed incomplete, as if scenes were chopped out in an attempt to appease the masses, who in general thought that An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug were drawn too thin. While many reviewers commented positively about the shorter length of the third installment The Battle of the Five Armies (a ‘mere’ 144 minutes), I actually came out of the cinema immediately thinking it was too short. That, and the fact that it’s pure fantasy escapism at its most exciting. I understand that some viewers may have seen certain scenes as unnecessary filler, but I never felt that way, relishing every detail as a further insight and exploration into Tolkein’s universe. Thanks to the massive amount of material written by Tolkein, the world of Middle-Earth is rich enough to expand this small story into a large-scale cinematic epic to accompany Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. I have no problems with the length of The Hobbit trilogy, or that one relatively short children’s book has been adapted into three relatively long films.
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