Tinkering With the Hobbit
Ben Child of guardian.co.uk raises the question — Will Peter Jackson’s Tolkien tinkering make or break The Hobbit? Read more about it here.
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I’ve always known that part f the reasoning behind two movies was the availability of information bridging the gap in years and events between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Wasn’t Galadriel part of the White Council? Also, isn’t it reasonable to include Thranduil’s son in the movies?
I agree with this guy to a point. I wonder why they are doing two movies for one small book. Most of it is in Bilbo’s perspective and I think it could be done in one movie. Just making two parts out of one book seems slightly dumb, especially a small novel like “The Hobbit” .
Although, I am excited to see that most of the cast members are back because to be honest I have missed them.
I don’t think the movies will break Tolkien’s work. The reason they are making it into two movies is because the journey to the Lonely Mountain takes a while. You have a battle with orcs and wolves, and the dwarves and Bilbo meet Beorn. Next they get lost and captured in Mirkwood, and finally they get to the Lonely Mountain. That’s probably what’s going to be in the first movie and it could easily take up three hours worth of video. In the second part, you have the conversations between Smog and Bilbo, the battle between Smog and the laketown. The slaying of smog. Then you have the battle of Five Armies. Somewhere in here they’re going to put the White Council in flushing out Sauron. So, just like Tolkien’s other works, there’s much detail. Peter Jackson wants to include as much of it as he can. It’s not going to ruin the book, just like the LOTR movies did not ruin the book. They stand apart because they are different and yet they allow the viewers a better chance to imagine the book. That’s what I think will happen here. The movie will stray away from the book some, which I don’t consider a bad thing, but it will also build upon the book. They will compliment each other. The fact that they are adding in scenes that are not there doesn’t bother me because those scenes fit. Legolas is the prince of the king of Mirkwood. So naturally he would be around at the time of the capture of the dwarves. The White Council did flush Sauron out at the same time of Bilbo’s journey. So, even though they add scenes in, the story line will work well with them since they happened in the same time period. I see no problem.