The Hobbit Book And Movie Analysis

“Straight over Gollum’s head he jumped, seven feet forward and three in the air… he only just missed cracking his skull on the low arch of the passage” (Tolkien 87). The book, The Hobbit, and was written by J.R.R. Tolkien. Peter Jackson filmed this famous book and added many special effects to add thrilling action. The book and movie are about the adventures of Bilbo and the dwarves on their way to rediscover the riches of Thror that an evil dragon, Smaug, had taken. They encounter Valley-Elves, trolls, Beorn; half bear, half man; spiders, Wood-Elves, and lastly Smaug. In the chapter, “Riddles in the Dark”, Bilbo comes across Gollum, a small slimy creature, and they play a game of riddles in the tunnels of the Goblin’s underground palace. The

For example, “‘Sssss’ said Gollum, and became quite polite. ‘Praps we sits here and chats with a bitsy, my preciousss. It likes riddles, praps it does, does it?’”(Tolkien 73). Tolkien wanted Gollum to come up with the idea of the game because he wanted him to start the next action in the novel. Unlike the book, the movie had Bilbo was the one to come up with the idea of the games. For instance, Gollum started talking about riddles and then Bilbo said that they shall have a game of riddles and that their should be a reward for the winner(Jackson). Jackson wanted to show a different perspective than the book, and have Bilbo “think” of the idea. Jackson made a wise choice since the movie can’t be always the same as the book. In conclusion, Gollum was the one to start the game of riddles in the book, while Bilbo started it in the

One of the projects needs to have more depth and perspectives than the other. Relating to the movie and novel of The Hobbit, the director of the film needs to base it off the book, but not entirely. The director needs to make the movie more dramatic, sad, or thrilling. This would have the audience be on their feet and anticipating on what is going to happen next. As goes for the novel, if you are revising it since the publisher said it need more content, you still base it off the original, but also add more content. As you can see, one may believe that the movie being different than the novel isn’t effective because they believe they should be the