a hobbit

There and Back again by JR.R. Tolkien.

With all these movies based on books coming out, I was a little worried about how they would do the hobbit.  After seeing it I can say it was very good almost the whole time. IT had some great moments that were from the book and some they added to it that were great; some that just weren’t that that’s what we are going to look at.     

The beginning doesn’t start right at the beginning of the book it takes it into the future right before where the lord of the rings starts with Bilbo’s birthday. You even see Frodo at the beginning going to the place where you first see him in the first lord of the rings book.  

Once you get the movie going it gets good, the chapter of the unexpected party is like the book, it even starts with the exact word from the book. “In a hole in the ground lived a hobbit.” The arrive of Gandalf confuses Bilbo just as much in the movie as in the book and you can laugh out loud when he finds himself with a house full of dwarfs’. The dwarfs sing a song from the book as they clean up and it is very well done.

A scene that was needed to be well done was the one between Bilbo and Gollum during their battle of riddles. The first meet between the both of them is very similar as it is by the great lake and Gollum doesn't eat him first.   They go back and forth with riddles until Bilbo asks that fateful question, “What is in my pocket.” It’s the ring of course; the ring to rule them all. But Bilbo doesn't know that.

The back drop for this movie is great. You see places from the first movies and new places that are new to the viewers. One of my favorites is the shire. It looks like a place of safety and even very innocent in the idea of the worst thing happening is missing a meal. While as you go place you see the change from the great underground kingdom of the goblin king, where Bilbo gets lost and come across the underground lake were Gollum lives. To the Rivendell were we have been multiply times.  

The sad part was that it ends at a very bad moment. Right before you start to get to the great scenes. With the giant spiders and Dragon. I can’t wait for the next movie and the dragon is going to be great!