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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
If you want "faithful" you film each page of the actual book with the camera focused tightly on the text and switch pages every minute to give the time for the audience to read. Anything else changes something.
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Its how much it changes. Let's face it, if TH had been written by Prof. ABC Bloggs it would have no hope of being made into a movie - for the reasons I've already given, plus, its a children's fantasy book & children's fantasy is box office death. The only reason its being made is because its connected to LotR. However, its for that very reason that changes are inevitable - because what the audience, & hence the studio, want is another LotR movie.
That's my reason for thinking that the proposed Hobbit sequel/LotR prequel movie, with its focus on Aragorn's hunt for Gollum & the White Council's assault on Dol Guldur is actually the one that audiences want to see, rather than an adaptation of Bilbo's journey - well, unless the White Council stuff can be added into TH itself (which is not the current plan). TH & sequel will cost a LOT of money & I'm fairly certain that Warners will make sure that the priority will be to give the audience what they want, & that faithfulness to the source will be even further down the list than it was to PJ & New Line. In other words I'd expect to see far less of Tolkien in these movies than we did in LotR.