I think some of these concerns are unfair.
The biggest one being the trolls don't look like what You imagined. The film maker has to decide what a creature will look like what his interpretation is.
The same point with the dwarves not looking dwarvesh. In the book they're barely described just having different cloaks only bombour is pretty well described and his description is heavy.
Someone mentioned the score telling people how to feel... Music has been a part of movies even before dialogue and "talkies" You can't tell me
this doesn't give you a little shiver.
I think some folks hold PJ to far too high a standard Movie and Book are not the same thing at all. Story telling is different exposition and dialogue are different. Granted I think the riddle game should be eerie. We however see literally maybe 10 seconds of it. I may take on a dark tone rather quickly especially if Gollum become more pronounced throughout the scene. Is PJ being over ambitious, maybe. Tauriel for instance sounds bad the way everyone is talking yet, We need some characters to in the elven guard to capture the dwarves and Gollum, as Lilly says ""I believ e she is authentic, because Tolkien refers to The Woodland Elves, he just doesn’t talk about who they are specifically…"Which does make sense to me.
Tolkien is the maestro of course but certain parts of his works don't translate to film well without some sort of tweaking.
I do hope humor is used rarely and only to release tention.
The one scene I need them to do perfectly is when Bilbo climbs the tree in the middle of Mirkwood the Cartoon made that moment Very powerful.
But as someone else said, and I agree, I will enjoy the movies as movies and not try to compare them to the book too much.
Someone else mentioned yelling out Lilly and Bloom, I'd find that quite rude are we not supposed to be better than those who Didn't read the book?
