Thanks for that. I actually like the way this sounds. My worry about making the book into a trilogy is that it is such a different book for the LOTR trilogy. While LOTR was an epic tale with numerous characters, The Hobbit was simply an adventure tale. I was worried that a trilogy like this wouldn't capture that quality and would transform too much of the tale into a different sort of story. Your review really is encouraging. Capturing more dialogue and interplay between the dwarves is key to maintaining the adventure feeling, I think. I also like the idea of keeping the original songs.