Will The Hobbit do damage to the books?

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Originally Posted by Bêthberry

btw, do you know there is a Barrow Downs group of our dead wights on FB? Care to join?

I wasn't aware. I'll check it out. Thanks!

I feel like I ought to emphasise in light of my comments that while I think the films are potentially damaging to the books, especially the long struggle to have Professor Tolkien taken seriously as one of the major authors of the twentieth century, my issue is largely not with appreciation of the film per se but rather that attitude which attacks the books to defend the films.