#and then of course they just decided to make Thorin freaking Aragorn the Second

[telemna-hyelle]

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Eh, it's mostly that most of the dwarves in the hobbit don't feel like the ones in the book. Like, I get there's the struggle of trying to make 13 different characters distinct, but I felt like they a) made a bunch of them more hobbit-like than dwarf-like in appearance (in my opinion anyway) because everyone loves hobbits (WHERE ARE THE BEARDS. WHERE ARE THE BEARDS, I SAY) and then b) realized their dwarves didn't really feel like dwarves anymore, panicked, and said "oh i know how to make anything more dwarvish! let's make them ridiculously crude"

Like seriously.

Take Gimli for example--he might be a bit grumpy and even belligerent at times, but in the book he's one or more of the well educated and well-spoken manners of the fellowship, in his own way.

Compare this to, oh let's say, DAIN IN THE MOVIE. Or just how the dwarves comport themselves in Rivendell. Just because Dwarves and Elves have issues doesn't mean they'd treat their host's house with disrespect! What about the laws of hospitality???? It's completely against their culture and their nature. It's poor worldbuilding. Worse, it's ripping off good worldbuilding and substituting it with poor worldbuilding for a couple cheap laughs.

To be clear, I don't dislike the movie dwarves as characters. I think they're great characters. But I don't think they really make good dwarves, at least not all of them all the time.