Fan Fiction- The Witcher

My fan fiction is based on a book series called ”The Witcher” which are made by polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The series follows a professional monster killer, Geralt, who travels across the lands of Northern Kingdoms and The Empire of Nilfgaard. Geralt is not a traditional hero, and isn’t clearly good or evil.

One chilly morning, in the shady town of Flotsam, a nice little town indeed, the silence of the night was broken when a  wretched scream echoed in the village. One unfortunate thing there is in this town, as it is in all parts of the realm… Racism is easily seen around towns. Dwarves and elves live in slums and they are poorly treated among humans. Not to mention their own controversies. This morning the city guards punished one of the blacksmiths, a dwarf, on the town square because of him not being able to pay enough taxes.                                                                                                                              Geralt, ”The White Wolf”, as they call him, woke up recovered from the long trip he had made before arriving in Flotsam yesterday. He yawned as he rised from the bed and looked for his clothes and money purse. He only found the former… That treacherous woman! But no wise man would keep all of his belongings in one place, so Geralt had given most of his money and his weapons, except the dagger he keeps with him in case he needs to use it. Geralt dressed up and headed downstairs where the inn keeper was viewing some papers, consisting mail and reports from the staff. He was quite a short old man with a long brown beard and hair. He had big round glasses and was quite sturdy. He didn’t seem to pay any attention to Geralt when he walked across the lobby. Geralt cleared his throat as he stopped before the inn keeper’s desk, who looked at him under his glasses.                                                                                                                               ”May I get my belongings from the safe?”, Geralt asked.                                                 ”Yes, of course”, the inn keeper answered hastily and rose from his bench and walked to the door of the storage room, picked the right key from his keyring and opened the lock. He entered the room. A moment later he came back with a sack, a bag, and two scabbards. The other contained a sword made of steel, and the other a sword made of silver, meant to be more effective against magical creatures. The sack was filled with coins and the bag was used to carry Geralt’s other equipment.
”Who are you gonna kill with those?”, the inn keeper asked with a grin on his face.         ”Do I look like a mercenary?”, Geralt answered with a deep firm voice and began to walk towards the front door. He opened the door and left the inn without saying anything else.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit: An Unexpected journey is an fantasy adventure film released on 13 december of 2012. It is the first part of the trilogy, which is based on the novel ”The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The film was directed by Peter Jackson, who also directed ”The Lord of the Rings”-trilogy, which is also based on Tolkien’s novel. The Hobbit is a prequel to The Lord of the Rings.
The Hobbit was filmed in New Zealand and many of those who worked on The Lord of the Rings, were also involved in this film. Some actors did also star their previous roles again in this film.
Those being, for an example, Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey, and Andy Serkis as Gollum. The new main actors consist Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, and Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield.
Weta Workshop created most of the props and Weta digital managed the visual effects. Soundtrack was composed by Howard Shore.

The story takes place in the fictional land of Middle Earth, where the Dwarwes have lost their capital town and the film follows a group of dwarwes who have accompanied with Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins.
Their mission is to kill the dragon that is staying inside the capital of the dwarwes and take their city back.
They meet all kinds of creatures and dangers while travelling across the Middle Earth. There is something bigger happening in the north as well, but it will not yet take a big part of the film.

I enjoyed the film a lot, and the lenght of the film didn’t bother me like it has bothered some of the reviewers. I didn’t get bored at all. The film was well made and it was quite accurate to the book and the feeling of the epic adventure was there.
It is easier to say what I didn’t like. I think that the film was made too much by using computer animation, and in some parts, it looked like it was closer to animation than a real movie. Many of the scenes were also made up in a very same way as there were scenes in the Lord of the Rings-trilogy.
The thing that troubled me the most was that the film was trying to be too much comedy. Even in the ”darker” scenes, there was something that was trying to get the viewer to laugh. There was also no blood at all, and it was really odd regarding the fact that the battle scenes was quite brutal besides that.
I would have liked a more serious view on the story. Now it seems that the film cannot decide whether it wants to be a comedy or a darker film. Now it doesn’t quite succeed on neither of these.
I wasn’t expecting anything like Lord of the Rings, so I’m still not disappointed on the film.
I liked The Hobbit a lot and I’m eager to see the following films of the series.