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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 1248450" data-attributes="member: 3230">IIRC, in the Rankin animated Hobbit, they consolidated the cup trip and the dialog to one and then the second was after Smaug was gone. That seemed to work all right.LOL! He would be PERFECT! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I don't think the budget is going to be an issue if New Line gets PJ to make the film. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I agree it would be tempting to cut back on the size of Thorin & Co. 13 dwarfs -most of whom never say a word of dialog in the book- is pretty excessive. It would rankle a lot of fans of the book to change it, though. "Lucky Number", and so on. Maybe cut it back to 6 dwarves so Bilbo is the 7th member of the group instead of 14th? Thorin, Balin, Oin, Gloin, Bombur, and maybe Dwalin (since he's Balin's brother). You can leave Fili & Kili out because they die at the BoFA and had no major roles inside or outside of the story. The same is more or less true of the others; Ori, Nori, Dori, Bifur & Bofur.Also, you can leave out the scene where Bombur falls in the stream of forgetfulness in Mirkwood. That ate up several pages in the book. The butterfly scene would be cool, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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