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Tolkien is in my mind one of the great story tellers of all times. Big adventure stories with ordinary characters who do extraordinary things.

Yesterday it was the opening night of the second movie in the trilogy of the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. This film continues the adventures of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

When I read Tolkien's story as a boy, I was intrigued by the wonderful world created by J.R.R. Tolkien, the many different mythical creatures that live in it and the ongoing battle between good and evil. I was perhaps too young to have eye for the many intricacies and the hidden gems of wisdom of which Tolkien's stories are abundant with. For long, people believed that it was impossible to turn the Lord of the Ring and the Hobbit stories into feature films, at least not in such way that it would do right to the details, the complexity and the beauty of the stories.

Last night I have been to a double feature show to see a rerun of the first and the premiere of the second Hobbit movie. As he did with the Lord of the ring stories so did he with the Hobbit stories. Peter Jackson made the impossible possible. In his adaptations of  Tolkien's books he did more than just doing right to the stories. Peter Jackson brings them alive in more than a marvelous way.

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