[ SECRET POST #2573 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2573 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[littlestbirds]

well the thing that most irritated me about the adaptation was that SRS BSNS tone, how competent and heroic everyone was. I remember the dwarves surviving mostly by luck and Bilbo's sneakiness and creative lying. It was like Jackson didn't want the Dwarves to look too silly, so Bilbo ended up looking less useful...? I thought he was chosen because Gandalf knew that hobbits are tougher and more useful than they appear (or see themselves).

[analise]

Yeah, I re-read the book after watching the second movie and was like, "wow, the Dwarves would have NEVER gotten past Mirkwood without Bilbo being there," and they'd only have gotten that far because Gandalf was there.

Like, they're seriously kind of incompetent in the book and Bilbo had a far more active role in saving everybody (even if he was Making Shit Up as he went along because he was in way over his head) than you see in the movies. Not just because of the Ring, though he does make extensive use of it (which is also impressive considering what it does to people who wear it though perhaps the effect wasn't as pronounced then as it was later on Frodo because Sauron was still working on being more of a presence in Middle Earth again?).

I could probably ramble on this subject for a while but mostly...I don't agree with the secret and I do agree with those who say that Gandalf had his own reasons for choosing Bilbo that weren't just "for the lulz".