The Hobbit: Book Vs Movie

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Do you prefer a original, alluring book? Or an action-packed movie with many added characters? Either way the story must get across to the audience. It's just how the story is portrayed. A book offers a look into the mind of characters and how they make the choices they do. Different people prefer different types of storytelling. Some movies cannot be told the way a story was told, such as a series of flashbacks cannot be portrayed to a screen because it would be too confusing for an audience

The Hobbit is the first written book of the Lord of the Rings. The movies were first published before the Hobbit movie, therefore the movie is a prequel. The director of the series chose to do the trilogy before the Hobbit. Just to give some backstory.
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He wanted us to feel more attached to other characters that were important, aside from Bilbo, Gandalf and Thorin. We know that there are other important characters that are within the book such as, prince and foreshadowed princess of the Elves, named Legolas and Tauriel. Bilbo's 1st person perspective does not lead them to be as significant as significant as they are in the movie but the audience experiences them helping to save the dwarfs as they escape down the river. Legolas did not want to help the escape of the dwarfs but was dragged into the fight by Tauriel. Tauriel was in the fight because she had developed or had a developing relationship with Kili, another character that was irrelevant throughout the book but significant in the film. The relationship between Legolas and Tauriel was by far the most noticeable subplot or added portion of the film. Another very important character throughout the movie.

So now that we have looked at many examples on how the film is different from the book, we can now determine which one to follow more. On one hand you have a s that really gives us a view of the whole team and currently updates us on different character branches, such as when Gandalf travels to the Hill of Dark Sorcery alone and without the team. On the other hand you have a story that focuses on the emotional and physical character of

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