dormouse
Half-elven
Jul 30 2014, 7:57pm
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I suppose the thing is....
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... that my mental image of what's going to happen is still dependent on the book. Looking at the trailer, they seem to have the scene in which Thorin and the dwarves are looking down from somewhere on the Mountain while Bard is calling up to them. At that point, if they're following the book at least in outline, Bilbo should be with the dwarves, having already snuck down with the Arkenstone, and immediately after Thorin will send him packing. After that, he'll be with Bard, Gandalf and the Elvenking. So if - and of course it's a huge if - that's how the thing goes, I'd expect Bilbo to be in the battle in the film version but in some other part of the battlefield. With the elves, with Bard, with Gandalf... I don't know. Maybe just looking on, maybe joining in with them in some way. We haven't seen anything yet that suggests that he joins in the fighting but that's not to say he won't. 'Cos you see, that scene of Thorin and the dwarves emerging from the Mountain just when things look darkest, Thorin looking magmificent in full armour and charging into the middle of things - and of course, overdoing it and going too far into the ranks of the enemy - seems to me to be so dramatic that I can't imagine them wanting to lose it. And I just can't see them putting Bilbo into the middle of that. So my betting is that he'll be watching it happen from a distance - too far away to help. And of course, I could be entirely wrong!
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