Review of The Hobbit

From io9.  This is a very positive review that I mostly agree with.  I enjoyed the movie a lot, especially the concentration on the backstory of the dwarves.  I always played dwarf characters in D&D because I was inspired by the Hobbit and Gimli in LOTR (although the dwarf portrayals in the Rankin Bass cartoon version of The Hobbit, which also massively influenced me, were rather weak and hapless).