The Road Goes Ever On
[sub]rescored by Philip Glass[/sub]
A lengthy discourse on the runes found on the Dwarven map, and comparison to the runes of Durin. This could be done easily in the movie by having Elrond lecture Bilbo, reading from the appendix with illustrated runes.
The Hobbits, on a routine expedition, met the greatest earthquake ever known…
Already covered in The Two Towers movie.
Trolls discover the Middle Earth internet (palantiri).
They’re trolls. Brutish and stupid. They’d only use it 75% of the time to watch troll porn. So unlike earth, that’s why it’s filed under fantasy.
The story of the domestication of wargs (the origin of dawgs).