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Otaku-sempai
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May 5 2014, 1:36pm

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Major differences.

Jackson doesn't follow any of Tolkien's versions closely. Tolkien placed the encounter on March 15, 2941 (TA) while Jackson's version was much earlier (the summer previous to the Quest of Erebor). Also, Tolkien did not allude to any thugs, assassins or bounty hunters. Also, in the films, Gandalf does not know yet that Sauron is inhabiting Dol Guldur, and Thorin's relationship to the other Dwarven clans (via the Arkenstone) is very different; that alters his thought processes a great deal.

'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring

(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on May 5 2014, 1:42pm)

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