![]() Much of this supplemental material helps bridge the two works. ![]() In notes and appendices to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote entire histories of battles, characters, and places. And that seems to be exactly Jackson's goal. The issue here is that Jackson has made wholesale additions that make it all feel less like the book and more like the darker cinematic journey Jackson took us on not long ago with his Lord of the Rings trilogy. The divisive issue is not omissions, as is often the case with adaptations in fact, all major events of the book's first six chapters are fairly depicted. ![]() It is clearly Tolkien, but not always The Hobbit as he wrote it. Tolkien readers, this first installment of director Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy may hold an unexpected journey-perhaps even a conflicting one.
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