The Hobbit: Differences Between Book And Movie

Have you ever seen or read the Hobbit? The Hobbit is about a hobbit named Bilbo that has to go on an adventure with dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf to reclaim the dwarve's mountain. Both the film and book versions are very popular. The main components in both versions that I will be looking at are the plot, setting, and the characters. Both of the versions add on and take away parts of these components. To understand the differences between the film and book versions of the Hobbit, it is necessary to take a closer look at the setting, plot, and characters.

Both versions of the Hobbit have a lot of similarities when it comes to characters but there are still some differences. The movie adds a character named Radagast. He plays a decent role in it but is only mentioned in the book. In one of the scenes, Radagast is riding through the forest to

warn Gandalf of an evil presence.(Jackson). Also, in the movie there is the names of the elves. In the the book, there were elves but they weren't named. The main elf was only identified as the king. "The king looked sternly on Thorin when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions" (Tolkien 168). There a lot more similarities when it comes to characters. Both of the versions have Bilbo, the dwarves, and Gandalf." 'Gandalf, dwarves and mr. Baggins! We are not together in the house of our friend and conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit' " (Tolkien 16). The Hobbit could not be the same if it didn't have those characters. The characters in both the film and the book versions of the Hobbit are similar but there still are differences.
The setting in the Hobbit is very similar in both the film and book version.

The book describes the surroundings while the movie shows the landscape and the setting. The first description of setting in the book was when the narrator was describing the time and what the inside of Bilbo's house looked like. "The dark came into the room from the little window that opened in the side of the Hill; the firelight flickered-it was April-and still they played on, while the shadow of Gandalf's beard wagged against the wall"(Tolkien 13). The film version also looked like it took place in April and there was a scene in Bilbo's home that was the same as the one described in the book. Another similarity is that both versions had the lake town. Both versions describe lake town very well. In the movie, there is a scene where smaug is flying over and burning the town down. It shows how huge and tall the building are in that town. (Peter Jackson). From what I know, there are no differences in the setting of the Hobbit. Both of the Hobbit versions are very similar when it comes to the

setting.
In both versions of the Hobbit the plot is very similar. The book and movie starts out the same with the dwarves coming to his house. The next main event in both versions are when they confront the three trolls. There is a scene where the dwarves are captured by them and Bilbo has to free them from a net (Peter Jackson). The only difference in the scene is that the trolls speak very poor English in the book and it can be difficult to read. They probably made the movie easier to understand so you could understand the scene. Another scene that was similar was when Bilbo and dwarves were loaded into fish barrels to get into laketown. In the movie, the dwarves were loaded in the barrels and then the fish were put on top of them(Peter Jackson). The plot in the two versions of the Hobbit are very similar but there are some small and almost unnoticeable differences.
The plot, the setting, and the characters are the most important components of both versions. Both of the versions where very good and I do not like either one any more. The Hobbit has a very good story and there is nothing I don't like about it. When I first saw the movie, I thought it was way different from the book but I later realized that they were very similar. I guess some places looked different than I expected and characters did not look the way I imagined them. The Hobbit movie and the book were very similar in a lot of aspects but there were some minor differences.