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But this COULD make a very good movie if done well. Imagine Gandalf in Dol Guldur for example, and the smoke ring scene as I mentioned above or the White Council meetings etc.
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And as I said, I think this could also be very good for the movies. For the dealings with Dol Guldur and the White Council are implied in The Hobbit, and it wouldn't be necessarily a bad thing to expand more on what The Hobbit doesn't tell us.
Though (and perhaps I guess I should wait for the movies to come out, if they ever do in my life time to hold criticism - or even praise), I am growing a fear that Jackson's 'Hobbit' won't be about Bilbo and the Dwarves, it will be about progressing into Lord of the Rings. And 'featuring' characters that should not be featured in the story.
I have no qualms if a movie wants to be made about 'the rise of Sauron,' 'Aragorn protecting The Shire,' 'throwing in Arwen and Legolas,' no problems at all, but if a movie is made off of such, don't call it
The Hobbit, and don't use Tolkien's book
The Hobbit as a means to further the movie. For that movie
is not about
The Hobbit, it is events that take place during the time frame of
The Hobbit, and leading up to LOTR, which is completely different from the storyline and plot in
The Hobbit.
Basically if a movie is to be made off of The Hobbit, I want a movie that is about Bilbo, the dwarves, and their journey retaking Erebor, and that's what I want to see. I think expanding upon some concepts that are broader in LOTR (like Dol Guldur, the White Council, The Ring, Gollum...etc) that is perfectly fine too. But, I would not want to see a movie with Aragorn, and Legolas, and Arwen, and Galadriel, might as well make Gimli go with his father on the journey, as that has nothing to do with the storyline in
The Hobbit, but something totally different.