David pointed me to this infamous Leonard Nimoy video: http://www.alteringtime.com/features/misc/?p=baggins. Yes, it's hilarious but what I notice upon close listening is that its truth to the plot of the Hobbit far exceeds that of Jackson's films to their originals. To be fair, I should mention there is a lyric that mentions battling the trolls. His encounter with the trolls involves more trickery than battle. Nimoy's is more visually appealing at times as well. Overall, its marks in hokeyness are made up for in exceptional accuracy of the Ringlore when compared to many other popularizations of Tolkien's work.
This just in (only minutes after I posted the above): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4840278.stm I rest my case.
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