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Hey /lit/, /tv/ guy here, I know you know about books so I thought I could ask you about this?

I picked up this trilogy before Christmas, and I've been enjoying it a lot! I can see the movie read pretty heavily into some background things that could have been explained more clearly in the first novel, but it's all pretty good.

My query is this: I've gotten to about the half-way mark in the first book and they're already in the lake village. Without spoiling too much, is there a lot of dungeon crawling in the second book that's not covered in the movie or something? I skimmed the last few pages of book three and saw that the big battle is at the end, so I can only assume the movie skips a lot content that fleshes out book two (I hate it when movies do that!) Is that the case, or should I prepare for disappointment?

Thanks in advance!

>> No.5946910

>>5946904
Gollum dies

>> No.5946914

>>5946910
But he's in Lord of the Rings.

>> No.5946930

diffident_frog.jpg

in case OP isn't a troll: The Hobbit is one book, not three. The movies decompress it quite a lot for shekels and because "trilogies" are hip. Dwarf genealogy aside, I don't think there'll be much in the books that isn't covered in the movies since the movies had to add tons of bloat to begin with.

>> No.5946989

>>5946904
1/2 of the content from the movies are in the Silmarillion and 1/4 is from the Hobbit book. The remaining 1/4 was pulled out of Peter Jackson's ass.

>> No.5947016

>>5946904
>hobbit trilogy
What the fuck?

>> No.5947017

>>5946989
>silmarillion

Wot? He took some random shit from the LOTR appendices but what did he take from sil?

>> No.5947065

Good one OP, really though.

>> No.5947080
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5947080

>>5946930
>>5947016
Falling for bait this hard

>> No.5947100

>>5946904

Every year I somehow hate the Tolkein estate more and more.

>> No.5947108

>>5947100
>Every year I somehow hate Peter Jackson more and more.
ft4u my man

>> No.5947139

>>5947100
If you say one bad word about Christopher I'mma bop you one.

>> No.5947207

>>5946930
>>5947016
You know, like in the moovies.