"But in dreams I can hear your name, and in dreams we will meet again."

[nausicaa83]

I just came back from watching the final Hobbit movie. I feel the same way as I did with the other two movies: I think they took everything that was great about the book and made it better. All my favourite scenes were there, and they hit me even harder than I thought possible. I cried and sobbed a lot more than I did with Return of the King. I loved every minute of it, and I'm so grateful to Peter Jackson for taking one of my favourite childhood books, a book that shaped my imagination and sense of adventure as a child, and sewing it together with the Silmarillion, the Lord of the Rings appendices, all the Tolkien masterpieces I read and loved as a young adult. Then he took characters who weren't more than a name in the original book, and gave them voices, and backgrounds and a soul. He made me fall in love with the characters I already loved since I was a child, Thorin, Bilbo and Gandalf, and then made me fall for his version of the other characters. He took the dwarves' passion for the gold, and wrote an epic poem of longing for a lost home that brings to mind Verdi's Va' Pensiero. And then he gave us Thorin and Bilbo's relationship. I sincerely have no words for how grateful I am to him, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens for giving us these characters and these movies.

And now I can't wait for the extended edition, so I can cry even longer. ^^