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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The animated version of the The Hobbit was much closer to the original book. The basic issue is that The Hobbit is a children's book. While the Tolkien purists might really go for a version of the Hobbit that stuck to the book, it would die in the box office.
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I don't know about that. As a counter example, look at all the comic book movies that do very well at the box office.
Seems to me, they could have stuck fairly close to the book, and still made a killing at the box office. Full disclosure, I am not in the movie business, and I am a LOTR fan.
