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QuackingTroll
Tol Eressea
Dec 30 2012, 1:41pm
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How The Hobbit should have started...
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Here's an idea I've been playing with and perfecting for some time now. I've posted similar outlines on TORn before, but it's becoming clearer the more I play with it. Here's where I am now...
(I've got a more detailed idea, but here's the basic jist)
1) We start with Sam gardening in Bag End
2) Sick-looking Frodo comes out and says to Sam that he doesn't need to garden anymore, but Sam explains he enjoys it.
3) Frodo goes to the letter box - his shoulder hurts. Sam asks "What's wrong?" Frodo replies "it's nothing" and looks at his letters.
4) Frodo finds a letter from Bilbo (from Rivendell). After telling Sam how much he misses Bilbo, he reads the letter and looks sadly at Sam.
5) He explains to Sam that Bilbo has been chosen, because of his adventures, to take the last ship into Valinor and that they are to see him off. Frodo looks upset and goes inside.
6) Inside Frodo looks through his things, he goes into the study and sees The Red Book. In the front cover he discovers a note.
7) He reads -Holm Narrates- "My Dear Frodo, you asked me once... ...But now it's time for you to hear the full tale"
8) He looks at the book and skips "Concerning Hobbits" to get to "Chapter One" and reads -Holm narrates- "It began long ago in a land the like of which you will not find in the world today...". The camera pulls back from Frodo at his desk (exactly as it does with Holm in AUJ) to imply the flash-back.
9) After the epic dwarf prologue we go to a busy Hobbiton "...and that's where I come into the tale..." The camera moves through Hobbiton and up to Bag End as he says "...It began as you might expect, In a hole in the ground..."
10) On the line "...and all the comforts of home" We see Freeman's Bilbo (although not his face) shuffling around his house, a little OCDish, gathering his pipe and tobacco and going outside to smoke. He inhales deeply and we see a smoke-ring come out and the title.
11) The smoke ring turns into a butterfly and we finally see Bilbo's face revealed and the story begins.
Then, of course, toward the end of RotK the camera pulls back toward Frodo at his desk again, now implying the flashback has ended. Sam walks in and says "what is it?" and Frodo says the wound hasn't healed. In the next scene they go to see Bilbo off 
The party preparation scene and the running off to meet Gandalf (which doesn't actually make sense?) could then be included as the last scene of TABA to merge TH seamlessly with FotR.
Tada!
Unfortunately, I'm a terrible writer, but I do understand movies and pacing. IMO, not only does this make more sense, and create a better circle. It's also far better paced than the intro we got and also helps to split-up the endings of RotK, because the audience won't be expecting it to end until they've seen the second half of the flashback.
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How The Hobbit should have started...
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 1:41pm
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Nice try, Sean Astin //
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nobofthepony
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Dec 30 2012, 2:12pm
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How Hobbit should have ended.
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Estel78
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Dec 30 2012, 2:35pm
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Nice idea QT :-)
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DanielLB
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Dec 30 2012, 2:44pm
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The intro we got...
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 2:52pm
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I bet the EE will make it more confusing!
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DanielLB
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Dec 30 2012, 3:01pm
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Nice, but imho it shouldn't.
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Arannir
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Dec 30 2012, 2:54pm
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But it doesn't
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 3:11pm
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This isn't entirely true ...
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DanielLB
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Dec 30 2012, 3:14pm
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Like I said, though. These things might become more relevant in an EE or in TABA
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 3:19pm
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Ah yes. Agreed.
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DanielLB
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Dec 30 2012, 3:20pm
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Not exactly what I was saying...
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 3:33pm
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imho
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Arannir
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Dec 30 2012, 3:15pm
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But I think the quest of Mt Doom is far more relevant than Bilbo becoming recluse.
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 3:27pm
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That is where we disagree...
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Arannir
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Dec 30 2012, 3:31pm
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But for those who haven't seen LotR...
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 3:42pm
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree
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Arannir
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Dec 30 2012, 3:52pm
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I agree to agree to disagree :P You will never be persuaded! But discussion is what these boards are for after all! //
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QuackingTroll
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Dec 30 2012, 4:04pm
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Playing with the plot
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Indigo55
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Dec 30 2012, 5:36pm
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nice indeed QT
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Xanaseb
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Dec 30 2012, 10:01pm
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A Good idea, but...
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FrogmortonJustice65
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Dec 30 2012, 11:39pm
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I much prefer the movie's way.
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morgul lord
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Dec 31 2012, 12:10am
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sailing to valinor
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Balgrizar
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Dec 31 2012, 11:03am
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I like that idea
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Al Carondas
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Jan 7, 3:19am
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