After everything Peter Jackson accomplished adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's work, fans couldn't wait to return to Middle-earth with The Hobbit trilogy, only to discover that it was worse than The Lord of the Rings movies. From the time The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was released in 2012 as part of a planned trilogy, fans wondered why Jackson was taking Tolkien's slim novel and splitting it into three films, but since it reignited the winter appointment viewing that The Lord of the Rings had been a decade before they dutifully supported it. Unfortunately, with each year a sequel was released, the problems with the trilogy got progressively worse.
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