Today I watched 3D blockbuster The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. I was lucky to be accompanied by a friend, a die hard fan of JJR Tolkien, who had to explain the important plot points to me – a complete novice in the Tolkien world!

Take home point – an elf can kill a hundred orcs! As to why the dwarfs gave up so easily when they could not find the keyhole, it is because finding it has to be only magic and not by chance.

The cliff-hanger ending left me a with a look of disbelief. The 187 minutes of epic fantasy adventure were really over.