Bilbo and Elrond chat in an Extended Edition scene

[Strider67]

Originally Posted by What_about_Bilbo?

There is no "From Book to Script" feature.

Perhaps a feature about how they expanded a fairly short book into three lengthy films would have stretched credibility beyond breaking-point.

I agree with the point about Boyens and Walsh being clumsy writers. I find an awful lot of their dialogue unnatural, and it just sounds like modern conversational English shoehorned into Middle Earth, which to me jars horribly.