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Here Here. Many people are forgetting this tidbit. It was all the middle earth lore used for these films, not just a specific novel.

I didn't mind the Necromancer stuff because it all actually happened, they just didn't show it in the Hobbit but referred to it in LotR as having been what Gandalf and his elf friends were up to during that time.

Perhaps, but The Hobbit was such an isolated book that came before Middle Earth was really properly developed enough, and it was originally meant for children. Then LotR happened, and everything about Middle Earth changed.

Yeah, and to me the Necromancer stuff IS a big part of the LotR tie-in. So definitely, that stuff is important.

I'm cool with the Necromancer stuff, too. That's why I think there's an ideal two-film adaptation in the book: one that starts off in this much more fantastical world whereas the second provides a much clearer bridge to the world of LotR as the Necromancer and Ring stuff creep in.

Thank you for having sense.

I'm attempting to avoid getting bogged down in the details and possible pedantry of trying to maintain a tit-for-tat exchange, so let me get to the point.

Removed all of the heavy foreshadowing for LOTR and the evil of the ring - kept to the spirit of the book, it was a playful invisibility ring!

The difference there is the original author has sufficient license to retcon whatever the hell he wants to, because he's the guy who came up with it. If he screws it up, he didn't screw up an interpretation of the work - what got screwed up was the work itself.

At least one person here gets it.

Also, much of the extra stuff is from the Appendices to the Lord of the Rings.

The reality is, you CANNOT pull LOTR out of these films, or even The Hobbit book itself, because of how much LOTR really changed things.

Removed all of Gandalf's necromancer adventures

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