The Hobbit Movie Analysis

The director of “The Hobbit” changed certain scenes from the book to revise the movie. The movie was based off of the book by J.R.R Tolkien. The book is about a hobbit named Bilbo that goes on a journey with dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf. When the director made the movie he changed some scenes throughout the movie to make the storyline more exciting than the book. Two examples where the author changed scenes from the book is when bilbo kicks gollum while escaping and when Bilbo finds Gollum’s ring.
The first difference I found between the book and movie is bilbo kicking Gollum in the head during his escape. Although in the book BIlbo doesn't kick Gollum in the head. For example Tolkien wrote “Straight over Gollum’s head he jumped, seven

feet forward and three in the air.”(tolkien 87). This shows that in the book when Bilbo escapes he doesn't kick Gollum, he just leaps past him and leaves to find the group. The director Peter Jackson chose to change the scene and have Bilbo kick Gollum in the head to make Bilbo’s escape more suspenseful. For example if Bilbo just jumped over Gollum’s head it wouldn't be exciting.Another difference I found was Gollum’s personality.
In both the movie and the book Gollum has a split personality. But, throughout Gollum’s chapter in the book he doesn’t talk to himself as much as the director chose to act him out in the movie. For example in the book when Gollum finds the ring the the author wrote”