I must say I had forgotten a lot between reading the book in 2002 and watching the first two movies before re-reading the book, including who died at the end. I enjoyed re-reading the book. The movies didn't stray too much, with some exceptions.
What I loved about the book and movies equally:
- Bilbo
- The dwarves
- Gollum, the riddles, and how Bilbo gets the ring
- The eagles
What I loved in the movies more than the book:
- The elves
- Smaug
- Orcs/goblins
What I loved in the book more than the movies:
- The lack of the love triangle
- The focus on Bilbo's story
What I disliked about the movies:
- The love triangle
- The battling of the Necromancer (It was a little anticlimactic for me.)
- The splitting of the book into three movies (Two would've been better.)
- The way the third movie lacked a beginning, middle, and end and felt more just like the end
- Radagast (Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy this strange little wizard, but I felt his scenes were a bit too long.)
What I loved about the movies that wasn't in the book:
- Tauriel (So I didn't care as much about the love triangle, but she was pretty kick@ss in general.)
- I liked the earlier Necromancer scenes, just not the final one
- The connection with The Lord of the Rings (Now I want to re-read The Lord of the Rings and re-watch the movies!)
Have you read The Hobbit or seen the movies? What did you think of them?
It's time for another chapter of Reborn to go up on Wattpad. Read Chapter Seventeen here or start from the beginning here.
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