Forget about the apocalypse! If I’ve learned anything from TV, there’s always an apocalypse coming, and always a small team of disparate heroes who save the day.
If Bilbo is telling Frodo about the Quest of Erebor, I wonder which version of his encounter with Gollum will he recount?
Mandy should play Thorin Oakenshield, then they could move him to the battle of Dol Guldur so he can say to the Necromancer: “My name is Thorin Oakenshield, you killed my father…prepare to die!”