Quote - I'm not going to see the movie until next Friday.

I have to admit that I am a little puzzled about how they made this fairly short book into an epic, but I love anything Tolkien, I just hope the stuff they added isn't to off the wall.

Mike

The movie is basically Old Bilbo's whole story to Frodo about his adventure and how he came to have the ring.

It was explained how the dwarves lost their mountain.

They managed to build a bit of a bridge to tie this movie into The Fellowship of the Ring.

They touched on how Bilbo came to be involved in the adventure, the trolls, deciphering the map, the capture and escape from the orcs and Bilbo's interaction with Golum.  How they got to those points though was largely the imagination of Peter Jackson and his writing team.

The Hobbit glossed over a great many things. Peter Jackson "created" what Tolkien didn't.

They also introduced some elements of the story that will be expanded on in the other 2 movies.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi