Turkey is not the word. No turkey, however bloated and stupid, could ever be big enough to convey the mesmerising awfulness of Amazon's billion dollar Tolkien epic. The Daily Mail has deleted this review. Pressure from Amazon?

Cory Olsen, aka The Tolkien Professor, explains how Tolkien’s hobbit stories got fused with his earlier mythologic work around languages he created to become the Tolkien universe inhabited by…

Peter Jackson’s first two Hobbit movies collectively grossed almost two billion dollars, proving once and for all that people can’t get enough of wacky dwarf action mixed in with the occasional dragon. (Also that one-handed orc, remember him?) And the third Hobbit movie promises to be even more of a box office bounty, what with the fact that stuff actually happens.

Ethan Gilsdorf reviews The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, where we see more clearly Jackson's vision to give The Hobbit the look, feel and slow majesty of The Lord of the Rings.

The second installment of Peter Jackson's interminable trilogy proves, again, that more is less.