Not a Hobbit’s Story | Tolkien's The Hobbit Vs Peter Jackson | 231

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[SPEAKER_00]: We finally reached the end of Peter Jackson's first Hobbit movie, who will compare chapter 6 from the book to its on-screen adaptation, and explore how the story's subtle shift in narrative focus results.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Laura of the Rings episode 97, and I'm Erin, your guide to Wandering Middle Earth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One thing we'll see in this episode is the importance of sticking together with your friends, because middle-earth is too big a world to be lost in by yourself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You never know what creatures you'll meet, who will think that you are meet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You'll need your friends by your side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So go ahead and share this episode with a friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know the friend I'm talking about, that won't ask you about Lord of the Rings all of the time, and you gladly answer,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet inside you think that your friend should listen to a Lord of the Rings podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wandering Middle-earth is always better with a friend, so send them this episode.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's wander.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Out of the frying pan and into the fire starts with Bilboe escaping through the mountain door, while Golum screams behind him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's about 2 hours and 32 minutes into the extended edition of the film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it ends with the Eagles rescuing Gandalf, Thorin, Bilboe and the Dwarfs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say about 2 hours and 46 minutes in.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's roughly 15 minutes to portray this chapter on screen, and it actually is the film's finale for the action fighting, though not the emotional finale.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so what happens?

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[SPEAKER_00]: First we have Bilbo with the ring on running along the mountain side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then we get to the dwarves and Gandalf who quickly realizes that Bilbo is not among them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's clear that the dwarves are none too happy with Bilbo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you remember all the way back in the mountain sequence, Thorin is already upset with Bilbo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Bilbo was making to return to Rivendale after deriving the dwarves for not having a home anyway.

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[SPEAKER_00]: While Bilbo is dropping eaves, I mean eaves dropping.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thorin alleges that Bilbo has abandoned the quest, being too soft for adventures in the wild.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A clever line seeing as how Bilbo is invisible at that moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This conversation stirs a moment of decision for a film Bilbo.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He actually could turn back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He could abandon the dwarves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know he's overheard them, but Bilbo makes his decision and reveals himself to the dwarves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thorne presses him on why he came back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bilbo's response reveals to me the displaced narrative focus from the book to the movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This displacement has been my primary criticism of the Hobbit movies during these book to movie comparisons.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The film is not a story of a Hobbit who has an adventure, it's the story of dwarves reclaiming their home,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll give the film credit though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They capture Bilbo's Hobbit lifestyle really well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He misses his books and armchair and garden in short his home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the dwarves don't have a home, and Bilbo will do what he can to help them take it back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a beautiful moment, shots of the dwarves' faces as they hear Bilbo's noble offer of help, the Misty Mountain's theme played by a majestic horn in the background.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because we're focused on the dwarves, we don't see their respect for Bilbo grow because he was able to sneak past them and surprise them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nor does he share about the riddle game and confrontation with Gullham.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The moment is broken by the reveal of Thorin's arch enemy, the pale orc, writing a stride wards.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thorin and Gandalf each speak half of the chapter title.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, it doesn't come from Bilbo filling like a piece of bacon, like in the book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because we've seen Warx before, their sudden appearance is not much of a surprise, although those sightings were from a distance, and now the Warx are up close.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So close, that Bilbo's takes his sword into one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They hide in the trees where Gandalf is able to talk with a butterfly and so call a ride from Uber Eagle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This takes away from the U catastrophe that the Eagles provide.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the book Gandalf didn't know that help was on the way and so the Eagles set an intervention provides that joyous turn.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Film Gandalf, on the other hand, simply has to delay capture until the Eagles arrive.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The little butterfly is perhaps fan service for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy fans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It also makes the Eagles less noble, aloof and set apart from the affairs of Middle Earth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And more like a taxi service provided by more common birds rather than the mighty Eagles of non-way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As Aug is finally revealed to Thorin, who thought him dead?

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[SPEAKER_00]: As Aug taunts Thorin with insults about the scent of fear, much like the Ork commander at the siege of Ministerith in the return of the King movie.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this kicks off the final action sequence of the film.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Warg start to knock down trees, much like a line of dominoes, Gandalf Lobbs flaming pine cones in response, so now they are literally in the fire as the chapter title suggests.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But now the dwarves are hanging over a cliff and entire need of a solution.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Thoran decides to confront the Pale Orch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Remember this film is Thoran's story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Complete with music that reminds me of the night when Erigorn fights the Nazgul on Weathertop in Fellowship.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As Agnearly defeats Thoran, but Bilbo comes to his aid, a chance for Bilbo, Hobbit of the Hill, to show his true quality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly, Bilbo, who can't even scan rabbits in the book, takes out an orc warrior, buying him enough time for the dwarves to get unstuck and come to Thorin's aid.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Soon after, the Eagles come, grabbing boards, and tossing them over the cliff, and grabbing dwarves, and tossing them onto other Eagles backs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, the Eagles are able to grab Thorin and Bilbo's swords, before they fly off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But instead of taking the Orcs' prisoners to their I-Re, the Eagles drop off at a pinnacle of rock, which is where we'll start next time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The emotional finale now resolves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Forens distrust and dislike for Bilbo from the very beginning.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Further, after Bilbo's alleged abandonment after the mountains, is now resolved.

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[SPEAKER_00]: After forgiving Bilbo and some manhugs, we see the goal of this journey, Arobor, the lonely mountain, far off, in the distance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bilbo does get the last line of the show, albeit he is widely mistaken, quote, I do believe the worst is behind us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A thresh knocks on the mountain, reminiscent of the hidden language that Elron read from Thorin's map, and then the final scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A dragon sleeping in gold.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is the worst actually behind them?

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[SPEAKER_00]: During me in the next episode, we'll wander chapter 7 of the Hobbit, and encounter a new creature who, for me, is top of the list for Middle-Earth's highly bizarre, most mysterious and least-explained creatures.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for wandering Middle-Earth with me today.

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