The Hobbit

[thesummerqueen]

Was the Tolkien estate happy with the original movie trilogy, or were they reluctant even back then?

They were unhappy with Jackson's treatment.

Is the person who dies, the same one who dies in the book?

Yes.

Given Christopher Tolkeins' emotional attachment to Silmarillion you could well be right but what do you think about the Unfinished tales, Númenor, the Lays of Beleriand? all of these stories have cinematic qualities.

MM

They do, but they don't want anything to do with Hollywood in general anymore, it would seem.

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It moved too quickly? They had three movies extracted from a single book, did they just mess up the pacing? I found the first movie to be very, very slow at points, so maybe they had to cram all the action and resolution into the final installment.

The Hobbit is a very male oriented book in that there are no female characters that play main parts. Jackson included the female elf. Galadriel(spelling) was not mentioned in The Hobbit. He also tried very hard to tie The Hobbit to the LOTR. This meant that he added or emphasized some parts that he could have left out altogether.

The Hobbit itself is a pretty straight forward book. Little guy who doesn't know he wants adventure goes on an adventure and discovers he is smart and capable but I think that it would be a difficult novel to make into a visual work.

Jackson added Tauriel and the love interest with Kili, but much added material was from appendices or the Silmarillion. It's legit lore, not something made up. Galadriel really was part of the White Council, and she was a bad ass elf in her own right - very powerful, very beautiful.