This is, indeed, a time for comparisons...

[lil_shepherd]

Am watching The Fellowship of the Ring on the TV at the moment and, again and again, I am struck by the quality of the photography and the images. There is nothing at all in The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey to compare, with, say, the image of Saruman calling down the storm on the Fellowship or the Fords of Bruinen... and the fight in the 'Orc

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[maeve_the_red]

Haven't seen The Hobbit yet, but I suspect I'll feel the same. I did keep having Alan Lee flashbacks when watching LotR, but that's no bad thing; his pictures were the defining images of the books for me back in the 70s and 80s.