Radagast the Brown

[Essex]

that's a good point about the white council and the attack on Sauron being in the hobbit film.

this will be the only way they could explain the contstant toing and froing of gandalf from the book.

I remember at school when we read the Hobbit, we were always taking the mick out of Gandalf constantly leaving the dwarves to their own devices. "Where's he *$%!ing off to now?" This wouldn't work in the movie, so we will hopefully be shown the reason why.......

The confrontations between Gandalf and Saruman (mentioned in unfinished tales, etc) would be fantastic. Just imagine the scene where Gandalf blows the smoke rings infront of Saruman's face, grasps for them and they vanish......