“Far over the misty mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted gold.” pg14 The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien has many songs within it’s covers as have many of Tolkien's works. But few of the adaptations made by directors of Tolkien’s classical tales keep the songs that are so familiar to the books. The Hobbit trilogy, are unique in that aspect. Director Peter Jackson, however, used these songs within his movie adaptations and their resemblance to the book grew substantially, more than any adaptation before. The songs within The Hobbit brought about a sense of wonder and added a lot to the characters who sung them, so by Jackson using these songs he added a sense of depth never achieved …show more content…
Tolkien writes it as to describe that Bilbo is panicking from what the dwarves are doing to his dishes, “Thereupon twelve dwarves… jumped to their feet, and made tall piles of all things. Off they went, not waiting for trays, balancing columns of plates, each with a bottle on the top, with one hand, while the hobbit ran after them almost squeaking with fright: ‘Please be careful!’ and ‘please, don’t trouble! I can manage.’” pg 13. The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, tries to do the same thing. Peter Jackson, shows the Hobbit running around asking the dwarves to stop, with fast paced panning shots and tracking shots to add that sense of panic. Not only this but with the music of the song that is also taking place as these events occur, adds more to the panic of peaceful little Bilbo. As said before the song featured in the beginning is one that is to panic the hobbit, Bilbo. And the movie shows this through the use of the song. There wouldn’t nearly be as much of this panic if the song had not been …show more content…
Of course, not all of them could be featured, as The Hobbit is perhaps not your first thought of being a musical. But in other scenes where the songs are not featured, the same kind of setting is shown and related through diegetic sound. The squeals and growls from the goblins are used to relate to the “It sounded truly terrifying. The walls echoed the clap, snap! And crush, smash! And to the ugly laughter of their ho, ho! My lad!” pg 58, The music goes from a very quiet relaxing music to a very panicked music. Instead of singing the goblins make squeals and other inhuman sounds. Like that of a pig. The music gets very intense sounding. It’s echoey and creepy which makes it similar to the book as they are both trying to make the place seem erie even though they are a bit different. The order is a bit different but the same scenes