The Hobbit Book Vs Movie

It happens every time. The movie based off of the book is mostly always different whether it is ineffective or not. Between The Hobbit and the movie, there are more than just a few differences. Written by J.R.R Tolkien, and directed by Peter Jackson, The Hobbit is a miraculous journey and development of a small Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. He faces countless life threatening situations in his journey to the fearless dragon, Smaug at the end who holds all of the dwarves’ treasure in his lair. Specifically in chapter 5, Riddles in the Dark, Bilbo wakes up and is alone under the mountain with only his sword and a mysterious ring and is searching through the tunnels under the mountain. A couple clear changes that Peter Jackson made to the film were

This is the perfect choice for choosing how to represent Gollum as a creepy character. Instead of seeing food and attacking, he just crept right up into Bilbo’s ear and whispered in it, which also made everything scarier than just being in the dark. Comparing this to the movie, the first scene shows Gollum creep out from behind a rock to see what he has to eat. Bilbo is awake, even though Gollum does not notice, so he drags a goblin away, and we see the ring fall off of him. The lighting is very dark and scary, so when we see him emerge from out of the corner, the mood is definitely really more of a scary impression rather than creepy. Bilbo wasn’t fully in his senses when he just woke up to see Gollum in the movie, but in the book, he was already on high alert for anything lurking around in the mountain as he was walking around in the dark. In the movie version, Bilbo already could tell that he was in danger so he stayed quiet and didn’t say anything. The way that Jackson changed this was not effective to the audience because it makes them scared instead of seeing Gollum’s creepy, lonely and playful side to him in the book. After watching this scene, it was easy to tell that Jackson wanted to make the

According to the book, “Gollum did mean to come back. He was angry now and hungry. And he was a miserable, wicked creature, and already he had a plan.” (Tolkien 80). In Gollum’s perspective, it does not matter who wins or loses in the game of riddles, because he is just going to eat Bilbo either way. He just needs some company and entertainment before his meal. It was easy to tell from the start that Gollum could not be trusted. It did not take any further explanation to know that. Tolkien’s intent was to just make Gollum a creepy, untrustworthy character. This scene in the movie was very different. Peter Jackson’s scenes in the movie furthered this desire for Gollum to kill Bilbo and it was unnecessary. A specific scene in the movie where it showed Gollum planning on killing Bilbo was when Gollum was holding a rock behind his back planning on using it on Bilbo, even though he ended up chucking it at the floor out of frustration. We still know that even in the movie, Gollum cannot be trusted. This was a very unnecessary adjustment because it did not affect the audience in any way past what it already did in the book. There were many visual techniques that Peter Jackson used when making the Gollum scene, such as the dark lighting the entire time, and the close-ups to show their facial expressions. There was one long shot from when Bilbo was first alone and it proved how alone he was in the