I just saved myself ten hours of time by watching the TL;DW version of The Hobbit trilogy. They may have left out a few details, but nothing I’d really want to sit still that long for, even if I had the time.
Thirteen dwarves! That’s got even Snow White beat. Honestly, I tried to read The Hobbit in college and was so bored that I gave up and never went back to it. That was 40 years ago, and I still see no reason to watch three movies that I hear are dragged out even more than the book. -via Tastefully Offensive
Lord of the Rings: the books just dragged on and on. I forced myself to make it through the first one before I got bored with the grammatical comparisons of wood-elf poetry vs. prairie-elf poetry, then zzzzzzzz...