It's sometimes difficult to be impartial to a project like this when you've invested so much time anticipating and getting excited for it's completion. However, in many ways I feel that can make you hypercritical because you have become partial to a movie and final product that your mind has created. You build up this entity of pure perfection that blows you away in every way you know how. That being said, I am aware that I went into the theater at 12:01AM on 12/14/12 with the highest expectations I could fathom, but I wasn't disappointed. From the first glimpses of Erebor to the closing scene with the Lonely Mountain, not once did I find doubt or skepticism pulling my mind out of the story. Instead, I was living out those expectations of wonder and awe that had kept me moving forward and hoping for this day since I first walked out of ROTK some 9 years ago. In summary, The Hobbit met every one of my expectations of wonderful screenplay, beautiful scenery, amazing visual effects, and tear-jerking acting. It also surprised me in many ways with its expansion on the original work to include more of Tolkien's imagination. In this way above all others, The Hobbit fully transported me to Middle-Earth and I intend to return several more times this month.

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