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I don't have the extended edition yet since it's yet to be released, but seeing that the haters were out in force I thought I should show it some love. What most of the haters don't seem to understand is that there are 3 distinct versions of Middle-Earth. There is the version that Tolkien wrote, The version that you imagined when you read it, And the version Peter Jackson imagined and put to the screen. Perhaps most tragically a lot of these haters seem to only see thier own opinion as valid and often assume people who like the new hobbit movies never read the book. I have The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, The Silmarillion, The Children Of Hurin, The Shaping of Middle Earth, The Book Of Lost Tales, etc. I also have The extended versions of The Lord of The Rings films and the first Hobbit. I Love all of them. If you don't like a piece of art, be it book, music, game, show, cinema or whatever you are certainly entitled to your opinion. I just wish people would spend more time enjoying what they like instead of hating on what they don't. In my opinion Peter Jackson brought Middle Earth to life on the big screen in a way most people thought was impossible. I couldn't have realistically asked for a better set of films portraying my favorite fantasy world, even though there were scenes that differed from what I thought they should be. I'm looking forward to seeing his definitive take on this part of the story with the extended edition, and even more so on seeing his vision for the final part in theaters this december.