Blog: December 2014

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In his review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, David Bratman makes the astute observation that the title of the film goes unexplained. Unless the extended edition changes this when it’s released – presumably in November 2015 – viewers will have to decide for themselves which groups Peter Jackson considered one of the five armies.1

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I won’t defile this space with my review of Hobbit III. But I will link to it.

SPOILER ALERT

What follows is a selection of excerpts from some of the major press reviews on the opening day of the final Hobbit film.

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November 2014

Well, I’m back …
After a hiatus of three months, I return with the Tolkien Transactions for the month of November 2014. This means that I have skipped the transactions for August through October, except for the few bits that I had prepared before I got too busy, and the few bits that are too good to miss out on 🙂

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