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Originally Posted by The Saucepan Man
Forgive me. We may be talking at cross-purposes here. I had understood you to be suggesting that the suspense might have been increased to good effect by the contrast arising from the audience first being introduced to the Ring as Bilbo's seemingly innocent discovery and only learning of its true nature during Gandalf's explanation to Frodo at Bag End. To my mind, that would only have had any significant impact if the audience had had some "emotional attachment" to Bilbo's adventure, either because they had previously read The Hobbit or because they had seen a Hobbit film prequel. Otherwise the length of time between the audience's introduction to the Ring and the revelation of its nature is insufficient to have any major impact, in terms of suspense.
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I had not considered the emotional attachment to Bilbo's adventures--I read the LOTR before The Hobbit and was really gripped by the gradual way in which the story was revealed. I thought you were just referring to the information in the LOTR prologue concerning Bilbo's quest.
You may be right, however, about the difficulty of filming the Shadow of the Past chapter--certainly it would be tricky. And the presentation at the beginning was certainly more compact...