Smauggy day

Saw The Desolation of Smaug. I finally understand what Peter Jackson is doing. He's done a filming of a video game of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign he did based loosely on Tolkien's books.

This second installment of "The Hobbit" has nothing to do with the book with the same name save that there's a few characters that share names. Oh, and tiny people are called Hobbits when they're not Dwarves. Otherwise, there's no resemblance at all to the book. Once you accept that, it's pretty easy to digest Tauriel the "She-Elf" and the appearance of Legolas all over the place.

I wonder what kinds of slashfic Jackson's got on Legolas? No, I don't want to know. Not really.

Smaug was pretty awesome, and it was an entertaining movie once I realized what it was. Worth admission, but purists will claw out their eyes.