He later doubled back with supplemental material that rooted The Hobbit in the broader world of LOTR.

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And they could at least commit to this art-style and have a boyband Gandalf rather than drag proper Gandalf out of Lotr.

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With all the additional and superfluous non-Tolkien dialogue and scenes and the pick-and-mix way in which the book has been tampered with it felt almost like watching a different story at times but with LOTR characters thrown in.

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