The Hobbit Movie And Book Comparison Essay

The book differs starting just by the tone. The book is told by the narrator to make us imagine the character. Bilbo Baggins and the other various pictures that are mind blowing to the imagination. The movie however Tolkien’s voice was not told through narration, but Bilbo Baggins now plays as a character himself (main character in book). How both stories are told is great, but the movie itself really brings to life all character and possible book images too. The book never gave you a full back round as Bilbo is just seen as the Hobbit. In the movie I feel you can really feel him telling the story to his grandchildren. Also in the book, Thorin made his presence with the other dwarves and plays as if there was nothing new, other than how they

When arriving everyone is shocked. In the movie Thorin’s attendance was made out to be a huge ordeal or scene but in the book he was just seen as another guest. Another difference between the novel and the movie representation of the story would be the swords that were found in the trolls den. In the novel, the narrator waits until they are with an elf to tell Thorin and Gandolf the names of their ancient swords. As to the movie, when discovered, Gandolf just shares their origins in addition to that how Bilbo gets his sword was different. The movie Bilbo is given the sword by Gandolf, as in the book he finds the sword himself. The next difference is the confrontation with the trolls. In the book, they are captured by the nasty trolls hiding inside the bushes with bags. In the movie, all the dwarves barge in at once and start fighting the trolls. This is because Gandolf tricked the trolls into arguing with each other until the sun came out. In the movie, the party of 14 traveled into Mirkwood, got lost, got attacked by huge killer spiders, and then were captured by elves. Elves don’t eat pickles. In the book there were 2 things that happened that did not in the