Peter Jackson digs himself a hole by Thomas Garvey

Artist and subject seem as one, but are actually often at odds.The famous subtitle of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is There and Back Again.  And a major problem with Peter Jackson's gigantic film version of Tolkien's fairy tale is that even though its subtitle has been adjusted to An Unexpected Journey, we do, indeed, feel we've already been there and back again.What I mean by "there" is not actually the mythical…

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