Each chapter of the story sets the gathered characters on a contained quest, which, when completed, opens up the area of the world for exploration and free play. Middle Earth isn’t enormous but it is open, after a bit of work. It’s optional, as is the majority of the game, but good grief, it’s hard to turn down all of that brick-breaking and exploration. They clearly hadn’t thought about the embarrassment and horror of watching Robin Williams, or somebody else twinkly eyed and prone to sugary outbursts, prancing about with twigs in his beard trilling, "Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!"īombadil does make an appearance in Lego Lord of the Rings and so does all the backtracking, smashing and fishing you could hope for. He also left out Tom Bombadil and some people were bothered by that as well. And then they break everything at the party into pieces as well, leaving a group of hobbits jigging, dementedly, on an empty patch of land. Pippin has a rod in his backpack so they reckon, sod the quest, and instead head back through the Old Forest, smash everything they see en route, then ride a pig around for a while, destroy a market square, forget why they came back to Hobbiton in the first place, and end up dancing at a party. After meeting Aragorn, the jolly little footmen remember that there was a pond back in Hobbiton, with a small jetty suitable for fishing. The specific excised passage in Jackson’s adaptation, which is more abridged than a Sunday School Bible, occurs just after the hobbits visit The Prancing Pony.
The same guy who felt the need to cut out the most important part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy when he adapted it for the screen has only gone and expanded The Hobbit, which is three pages long, into a seven hundred and four hour trilogy that he wants you to watch at twice the speed of normal life. Here's wot I think of the whole adventure.
But I also broke every piece of furniture in Rivendell, spent ages looking for a lost hat and generally made a nuisance out of myself. I undertook the Quest for Mount Doom and, eventually, I saved Middle Earth from evil. I also tossed a dwarf, loads of times, and I avoided being Legolas as much as possible because something about the cut of his jib irritates me. Lego Lord of the Rings has been out for a while but I've only just managed to walk into Mordor.
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