New Theory Blames Bilbo for Bad Hobbit Movies

[Zigûr]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

If someone, like Bilbo, for instance, were to offer an exaggerated version of their exploits, shouldn't their exploits be then exaggerated and not minimized, as they are in the film? When someone writes something autobiographical in nature, how often does the writer conflate other's roles and eliminate their own?

Yes the original comment includes this:

Originally Posted by Some person on Reddit

After seeing nearly all his belongings sold after returning home in the last movie, Bilbo probably felt disappointed that his life now meant nothing more to the residents of the Shire than it did when he left. To justify his long absence and appear more amazing to his fellow Hobbits, he sought to make the recording of his trip as fantastic as he could, turning each small detail into ordeals far larger and drawn out than they actually were, thus events which only filled a small book turned into three separate movies.

Which does leave one wondering... if he wanted to justify his long absence, why would he, as the films present, show himself doing virtually nothing while all the major events involved various Dwarves, Elves, one hundred and fifty year dead Orcs and so on?

Really what this fan theory achieves is to actually make the films' problems with tone and focus more apparent rather than offering a solution to them, in my view at least.

[Nerwen]

The "Huffington Post" article ends thus:

"Jackson said he doesn't have regrets when it comes to the films, so we're thinking he either completely missed that Legolas scene [the collapsing tower], or perhaps there's a bigger plan at work.

Please let there be a bigger plan at work."

This is followed by a gif of Bilbo saying "What have we done?"

Pretty sure it's not serious.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

I'm reasonably certain the piece is tongue-in-cheek.

(And some Brits think Americans don't do irony....)

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

I'm reasonably certain the piece is tongue-in-cheek.

(And some Brits think Americans don't do irony....)

Meh, perhaps. But it's a plausible thing for someone to argue! For the humor to show through they need to make their next effort less believable.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

Meh, perhaps. But it's a plausible thing for someone to argue! For the humor to show through they need to make their next effort less believable.

Some humor is best delivered deadpan. And there were, after all, both funny lines and jabs at Jackson, the latter rather undermining the purported thesis.

[Andsigil]

New Theory Blames Bilbo for Bad Hobbit Movies

I can't help but see this notion as some form of victim-blaming.