The Hobbit Book Vs Movie Essay

Mostly every movie will never be the same way the book is set up.. Well the same situation happens in the book, ‘The Hobbit’. The author of ‘The Hobbit’ is J.R.R Tolkien and the movie director is Peter Jackson. The Hobbit is about a little hobbit living a very comfortable, calm, and simple life, that goes by the name Bilbo Baggins. Until one day he was chose by a wizard, Gandalf to go on adventure with him. A small hobbit that has no experience going on adventures and facing prettified adventures.The two majors differences that happened from the book to the movie are the scene where Bilbo is stealing an item from the castle while Smaug is calmly sleeping and where has Smaug fighting Bilbo in the book and in the movie he was fighting the dwarves in the movie. In the movie it gave the viewers have a see a different perspective. The …show more content…
For instance, ¨ ‘I have got my ring and will creep down this very soon-then if ever Smaug ought to be napping-and see what he is up to. Perhaps something turn up. ‘Every worm has a weak spot’...’” ¨ (Tolkien ). The reasoning for doing this make it look like Bilbo is hero of the whole story. Like this show how Bilbo's character has developed throughout the story for a hobbit that has had no experience in adventures, low self confidence , and having to be the odd one out. In this case, the director, Peter Jackson, had made a change that all the dwarves and Bilbo were fighting against Smaug. The director has chosen to do it this to show teamwork and basically the director wants us to get a life lesson out of this. Moreover, this took away how Bibo was developing as an character. This showing no growth in Bilbo is not growing in the movie and viewers having different feelings or thoughts about Bilbo. This change was a really big effect on the way Bilbo