I enjoyed it as a film, but find myself enraged about what Jackson thinks he's doing to Middle Earth history
400 year watchful peace? The watchful peace was well over at that point. Total rewrite of the Dwarf-Goblin Wars, undercutting Dain's role in the fight or what really happened to Thrain afterwards. Delaying the rise of Mirkwood by 2000 years (!) and their claim that the Witch King was killed at the end of the Northern War, and then buried, neither of which were true. The whole point was that the Witch King escaped, under the prophecy of "Not by the hand of Man shall he fall," the entire *point* of his confrontation with Eowyn at the end of "Return."
Other modifications i liked better, like making the Stone Giants more of a thing (mentioned only in passing in the actual book) and increasing the role of Radagast (and even mentioning the Blue Wizards!)
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
