stupid hobbit tricks

Like Thorin bedazzled by Smaug's treasure into desiring ownership of all of it, not just the part that's rightfully his, some Tolkienists have fallen under the glamor of the movies into seeing qualities in them that just aren't there.

Latest victim is Corey Olsen, usually a sober if unimaginative scholar, in this article published a month ago but which I've only now read, on the faithfulness of the Hobbit movies to Tolkien's "books" (what books? The Hobbit is only one book). Olsen finds them so on three dubious grounds:

( And we're off )

world according to cat

I am better at hiding than any cat you've ever seen. Or not seen.