[ SECRET POST #4611 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4611 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

My understanding was that it was because people noted that the story didn't have much in the way of female characters, period. A female elf ranger makes sense in the overall context, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, it's not as if the original story gave the dwarves so much character development that making one of them female would have been an affront to the Eldritch Gods of Book Adaptations. Or, since they decided to throw in random backstory for padding anyway, a little bit of flashback character development for Belladonna Took wouldn't have been out of place in The Hobbit.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm still firmly of the opinion that any frame of The Hobbit lacking a Bilbo Baggins was superfluous and wasted production money. It was a perfectly fine adventure yarn as written. It really didn't need to be The Hobbit + Dwarf Jacobean Revenge Story + Dwarf/Elf Romantic Tragedy.

[(Anonymous)]

Especially given that Tolkien's "worldbuilding" included meta-fiction about his fiction, and Bilbo wouldn't have known about events outside of the quest to Erebor until after his diaries about the event were written.

[(Anonymous)]

True. It would've sparked the whole debate about what dwarf women look like, which would've been funny. But honestly... those films were padded enough without flashbacks.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure they showed what dwarf women look like in a cut scene or something? They were just women with beards that were slightly wispier than the men. Very pretty beards, actually, lots of braids and beads.