Adinnieken on 24 September 2013
| TruckOSaurus said: I think it starts with the fact that The Hobbit, the book, is much more kid oriented than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It brings a change of tone when comparing the LOTR movies with The Hobbit movie. There's also the problem of stretching a book that is considerably shorter than any of the LOTR books into three movies. The LOTR trilogy had to be compressed to make it into the three movies we know while The Hobbit has to be stuffed with filler. |
Filler yes, but canon filler to be sure.
There is a lot of content that was written that wasn't in The Hobbit, and you saw some of that in the movie. The problem is, is there enough of that to fill two movies? The next part of The Hobbit revolves around the wood elves and the forest, possibly Lake-town. Though Lake-town is near the end so I don't know.
I don't think The Hobbit was a kids book. The old 70's or early 80's animated treatment of the book was geared towards kids, but it was really just meant as a prequel. something to set the stage of the original. Written long after the LoTRs was written.
