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So I watched The Hobbit trilogy for about the tenth time and I think I get why they are flawed. It's not something I've read, 99% of lotr fans say it's because it doesn't follow the books or is childish or has extra story lines.
To me that's not a problem, movies are a different form of storytelling and books needs to be adapted and changed for the screen.
I think it's flawed because there are two voices in the story telling. The first is story telling as a child's story. This has world building and explanations. I really don't enough about writing to explain, I just know it when I see it.
The second voice is the same voice we hear in the LOTR movies, adult story telling. The world is not explained, it is.
Mixing the two doesn't work. I'm surprised at jackson , walsh and boyens , they know better.
So I agree that 2 movies was a necessity if they wanted to tell the story of the geopolitics of middle earth and the hobbit story.
It's still really good tho.