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Set nearly two centuries before “The Hobbit,” the film opens with a young woman with hair the color of Advil tablets riding to the peak of a mountain, where she feeds a giant ham hock to one ...

The film, set 183 years before the events of ‘The Hobbit,’ is a return to Middle-earth that, despite some very earnest storytelling, never supplies much of an answer as to why, exactly, ...