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darth_ender
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The Hobbit movie: Dwarves
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5-Sep-2012, 7:03 PM

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-hobbit-movie-news-details-on-second-film-third-sequel-gets-release-date

The second Hobbit movie will no longer be called There and Back Again.  It will now be called The Desolation of Smaug, with the third film (still shaking my head) will assume the former name.  However, my hopes are a bit higher, as the report is that Jackson will be utilizing unpublished Tolkein notes to broaden the story.  I understand the need for artistic licenses, and the LOTR trilogy did just that, a certain amount of faithfulness must be held to, especially when dealing with a single book being expanded into three films, while the LOTR trilogy had to be condensed so drastically.  But utilizing Tolkein's unpublished vision is something I can condone.

What I wish (and I don't know how this would be done, but it certainly would be interesting) is that somehow Bilbo's "false" version of Riddles in the Dark could make its way into the film along with the true.  Perhaps his fib to the dwarves could be shown in flashback, but with the alternate tale.

Comparison of the original and revised chapter expanding Gollum's character.