The Hobbit Film Analysis

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The movie trilogy of The Hobbit grossed almost three billion dollars, while the novel sold about 100 million copies (Mendelson and Walker). The sheer amount spent to watch The Hobbit shows how loved this book is by society. J.R.R Tolkien wrote the novel, The Hobbit, while Peter Jackson directed the second movie of The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug. The Hobbit, is about a non-adventurous hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, going on an adventure with 13 dwarves and Gandalf in search for treasure stolen by Smaug the dragon. To sum up the film of “Barrels Out of Bond,” it is the fight between the good and the evil when the orcs, who are all corrupted by their greed for power go against the party and the elves during the battle as they escape. In

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