Tenebrea

Critical Drinker talks The Hobbit. He notes the story's overabundance of silly dwarf characters, and its uninspired protagonist. The Drinker thinks he is talking about the movie. He is deep down talking about the book.

John Reuel Tolkien wrote several stories on downtime during his Oxford career and his labour-of-love in sketching Beleriand's tragic history. The Hobbit was in part just the Tollers story which moved units ... but it also had The Ring, which caught at this author's Wagner-reading subconscious. Keep in mind - at the time The Hobbit first went to the printer, there was nothing much in it that Farmer Giles of Ham or 'Leaf', by Niggle didn't have. It was just, like, a STORY, man; and a fairly episodic and undistinguished one, at that.

Peter Jackson brought out, in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, the core of what LotR could have been. That story was a near-perfect epic, and Jackson created a true work of art from that. My unpopular opinion: Jackson would do much as Tolkien himself had done, when Tolkien spun LotR from The Hobbit. Tolkien took elements from his own The Hobbit, which again wasn't that good in itself, from which elements he made something great.

Well... Jackson also brought out something from The Hobbit, directly. About all anyone could, who wasn't writing an episodic kids' story.

Elsewhere I've noted Monte Cook and Michael Mearls, in their introduction of the Tenebrean Seeds into their Arcana Unearthed universe. Maybe you'll find transcendence. Maybe... you'll become an abomination.

Jackson held onto the Seeds for too long.