I certainly can't connect names to the faces of actors and it doesn't help that, unlike the Fellowship, their names all sound alike, all derived in some form from the Poetic Edda. I consider myself a hard-core Tolkien fan but I can hardly remember more than half of their names. For one thing, there are too many Dwarves in Thorin's company. 2) Poor Source Material The Hobbit is an inherently challenging book to adapt to the screen. The whole adaptation process was confused by this contradictory creative impulse. The Hobbit was a wonky children's story but the investors wanted another mature, adventure fantasy epic. They used the source material as a plot guide while overlaying the tone and epic scale of LOTR - it just doesn't work. The tone of the films does not at all match the tone of the source material. The money people wanted another generation-defining hit and, in their greed, they ruined any hope for The Hobbit to be good. If not for this, they might have kept it as one or maybe two movies instead of stretching it into a trilogy. If not for this, they might have had good original score instead of derivative music with not a single memorable track. If not for this, they might have let del Toro remain as director. 1) They Tried to Remake LOTR This is the single biggest problem with The Hobbit movies, the kernel of their woes. With nearly the same creative team behind the masterfully made Lord of the Rings trilogy, why did The Hobbit trilogy fall so flat for most viewers? Was it merely that the bar had been set too high by LOTR? Here are the most plausible reasons I can come up with.
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