Peter Jackson's Worst Lord of the Rings Sin Was Forgetting the Story's Fairy Tale Roots
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit should have taken inspiration from The Princess Bride on how to adapt a fairy tale into a movie.
Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit trilogy has been widely criticized for its departure from the fairy tale roots of the original story. While Tolkien considered The Hobbit a "fairy story," the movies transform it into a CGI-riddled, epic fantasy that fails to capture the magic of the book. The main issue lies not in the added "original" material, but in the fact that the movies forget the fairy tale essence of the source material.
Tolkien himself called The Hobbit a fairy story, and the film's failure to maintain that aspect makes it a "worst sin" among the movie adaptation.
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