Will The Hobbit do damage to the books?

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Originally Posted by LadyBrooke

Weren't the Tolkien purists upset at the Lord of the Rings movies too?

Yes...and well, yes.

Initially I was upset that PJ wasn't following the Books, and more importantly, MY vision of the same. But with time I let that all that 'purist stuff' go and yet still found tomes of material in which to criticize PJ, such as lack of consistency, dumbed-down humor, the word "She-elf" ...

The thing is, characters were always going to have to be inserted that didn't exist in the original novel, whether they were named or not - you can't have Mirkwood with 3 or 4 elves.

I understand what you mean - orc #12,210 isn't as exciting as Lurtz - but in LotR, main characters were left to the side (Eomer) to make room for Brego snogging Aragorn.

And while Tauriel is controversial, I find that there's also people that support the Hobbit movie because she's been inserted.

I guess that we'll have to wait and see how it all works out.