# The Hobbit - children's book?  Random ruminations ahoy!

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**Created:** [October 5, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-childrens-book-random-ruminations-ahoy/421703 "2007-10-05T23:25:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-childrens-book-random-ruminations-ahoy/421703/41 "2007-10-07T04:54:10Z")

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Anybody see the cover story in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly?  
Apparently there’s new hope that Peter Jackson will, after all, be making a _Hobbit_ movie.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-childrens-book-random-ruminations-ahoy/421703/42 "2007-10-07T04:59:39Z")

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[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink]  
Anybody see the cover story in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly?  
Apparently there’s new hope that Peter Jackson will, after all, be making a _Hobbit_ movie.  
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Any chance he will be a little more faithful to the actual writing of the book this time? He can cut stuff, but adding stuff is just plain wrong.

Seriously, give us a pair of movies, about 5 hours total length. Should be able to do justice to the Hobbit.

Jim (Did I mention that some of us are also hard to please?)

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-childrens-book-random-ruminations-ahoy/421703/43 "2007-10-07T05:10:24Z")

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BTW: The article is online and 5 pages long: [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20036782\_20037403\_20142132,00.html](http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20036782_20037403_20142132,00.html)

Jim

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**Post date:** [October 7, 2007, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hobbit-childrens-book-random-ruminations-ahoy/421703/44 "2007-10-07T05:37:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Waenara]  
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My first impression was that I couldn’t even tell from the “review” whether the 10-year-old actually _read_ the book all the way through. Bilbo fought goblins and wargs? Yup, but that’s what - maybe halfway through the book? I would think that even a child reviewing the book would mention the spiders, and would definitely talk about the dragon. Not to mention any subtler themes/symbolism/etc…  
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Apparently the full text of the review is [a little longer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayner_Unwin)than what has been quoted in this thread–but just a little.

-FrL-

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