If you could change ONE thing in The Hobbit triology

[Marwhini]

Oh, and where each Installment should begin and End.

1st Movie:

An Unexpected Party
Roast Mutton
A Short Rest
Over Hill And Under Hill
Riddles In The Dark
Out Of The Frying-Pan Into The Fire

2nd Movie:

Queer Lodgings
Flies And Spiders
Barrels Out Of Bond
A Warm Welcome
On The Doorstep
Inside Information
Not At Home

3rd Movie:

Fire And Water
The Gathering Of The Clouds
A Thief In The Night
The Clouds Burst
The Return Journey
The Last Stage

Broken down, this is:

1st Movie:

From Hobbiton to the rescue by the Eagles, and the stay in their Eyries.

2nd Movie:

From the Party's delivery to the lands beside the Anduin to The Dwarves ransacking Erebor after Smaug flies off to attack Laketown.

3rd Movie:

The attack of Smaug upon Laketown to the return of Bilbo to Hobbiton.


And the songs can remain in the movies. They are a part-and-parcel of the story, and help give it much of its character, as well as the character of Dwarves and Hobbits.

That Jackson left the many Songs out of the movies was one of the greatest crimes, since they nearly all carried with them an exposition of the Elder Days during the First Age.

This is nearly identical to the breakdown we saw in the Jackson Movies. And this is because the book presents significant narrative shifts in scene, or point-of-view at each point.

Also because that is a nearly symmetrical breakdown of the book into three equally sized portions.

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