The Hobbit : an expected movie

Abstract

The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien, is a literary work dated from 1937 and written aimed to the child public. In 2012, the book had its first adaptation to the cinema, altogether the novel was split in a trilogy and the other movies were released in the two successive years. This adaptation, made by Peter Jackson, brings some characteristic aspects of the cinema, as well as the novel has its own literary characteristics. These elements will be analyzed and commented from a perspective that takes literature and cinema into consideration. The purpose of this work is to analyze how the adaptation of the plot, the songs and some of the characters was made by Peter Jackson. Furthermore, explain possible reasons that could have influenced the changes made by the producer and screenwriter of the movie.