I can accept it as an affectionate nod to Tolkien (or rather the Lord of the Rings movies), but it does not necessarily honor the source material. Recently, I attempted to re-watch Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy with my kids.Not only was she not true to Tolkien's original work, but there was also that love triangleBut that's a story for another day.
It's the first of an intended series (of one fic per movie, or that's the plan at least) which can be found on AO3 with the title "Will You Look At That, We're Watching Us. R Tolkien's classic High Fantasy Adventure novel of the same name, directed by Peter Jackson and adapted for the screen by Jackson and Guillermo del Toro. Amazon Studios are the lucky lot who’ve been tasked with.
Chiming in to say that this is hands-down the best Hobbit fanfic I have ever read in my life. Just like when requesting a drabble or headcanons, you have to tell me what you want it to be about and with which characters. Fellowship is almost twice as long! And yet, they managed. I won’t go into detail about what happens, but it was a complete departure from Tolkien’s story. Well, a girl and her three friends kidnap the Big 5/6 and convince them to watch their future. Richard Armitage, Martin Freeman, Luke Evans and the rest make the most of the scenes in which they can breathe life into their characters.
Full disclosure, I am in fact Synopsis: Hobbit-centric stories, mostly G-rated and gen, that are wonderful character explorations and often attempt to fill in some of the events glossed over by the epic nature of the books.