Bree was a fairly nice place in the books, but you also have to remember that these are hobbits. Sam had misgivings about it when he first saw that the Prancing pony was 2 stories high, but it turned out to be O.K. in the end. There were some suspicious men there, Bill Ferny for one. <P>In the movie they more just omitted the cheery part rather than getting the whole thing wrong. They did a great job at showing how big of a world it was for these 4 little hobbits. In the book this is also showed in the old forest, but in the movie they don't show that part so they have to make up for it in other places. The story just isn't the same if the hobbits were always these brave warriers. One of the themes in LOTR I think is that little people can do big things. You have to show that the people are little before you can have them do big things.
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