[Lestrade]

As soon as I heard this monster was going to be more than one film I was facepalming. Jackson just... sucks at knowing what's important to the story and what isn't, and then he tacks on his own fanboy things that twist the story and it's just really annoying. I never even watched The Return of the King because The Two Towers was so painfully dumb... and I never knew just how much I liked Gimli until I saw that he'd been turned into comic relief and it really pissed me off.

Soooo long story short, I had not even heard about a random new elf character until just now and I already wasn't even remotely interested in seeing The Hobbit. (I do like Martin Freeman, but he's not NEARLY enough to make me interested.)