[Morthoron]

I have always stated the gangrel, hyena-like beasts Jackson presented as wolves were asinine, and certainly not a logical extension of Tolkien's mythos and the influences he used. That Del Toro recognized the Norse aspects of Tolkien's book, his willingness to incorporate Tolkien's art into the visual style of the movie, and his obvious attention to detail regarding dragon symbology, implies to me that he had a far profounder grasp of the subject matter than Jackson, who dealt in superficialities: make the ugly uglier, make the weapons larger, make the battle more immense, strip subtlety and nobility from the characters, etc., and he continues to do so with formulaic Hollywood additions and tediously unnecessary character proliferations in the story.

Dumbed down and slicked up, like a drunken whore at a science fiction convention.