Fleshing out Thorin was definitely a good thing, but it makes the ending even harder to swallow. Why out of every character is he the one so bad he has to die, or have to spend the rest of his life always seen as bad compared to everyone else? I see other characters made mistakes too so why does he only have to pay with his life? I did notice people who got angry that Thranduil was more flawed in the movies and Bilbo didn’t chose to fight by the Elves /1

/2 are the same who said Thorin had it coming for the moral and in this
current time I don’t agree with that moral. I don’t agree with saying
it’s greedy to want a home back. It’s sad watching a character go
through all that and have to agree they have to die. It’s like excessive
punishment imho. (please don’t tag this with the fandom)
       
   

(Wasn’t planning on it.)

I agree that it’s kind of a rock-and-hard-place situation, but given the choice of seeing Thorin humanized and having his death hit harder or seeing him portrayed 100% as a greedy villain and having people cheer his death, I’ll take the first option. They were never going to address the anti-Semitism in a sensitive manner and let him have any semblance of a happy ending (possible even if he died – *cough*secret marriage*cough*), let’s be real.

I still absolutely agree with you about all of this.