The Hobbit - Peter Jackson taken off project

[BetteDavisEyes]

It's been a while since I've read The Hobbit but was Saruman in it? I know Gandalf & Elrond were but I honestly can't recall if Saruman was.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by BetteDavisEyes

It's been a while since I've read The Hobbit but was Saruman in it? I know Gandalf & Elrond were but I honestly can't recall if Saruman was.

Nope. See above for the repeat characters. I have to say I like LOTR a lot better than The Hobbit. Oh but that chainmail shirt Bilbo gives Frodo? That came from The Hobbit.
Great, now I have The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins stuck in my head.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by centaur532

Nope. See above for the repeat characters.

Sauron, on the other hand, is referred to but not seen in The Hobbit. (Of course, he is never really seen in LOTR either.)

He is "The Necromancer" who has taken up in Dol Gildur in the southern part of Mirkwood. The elves at first do not realize who he is.

[Drolefille]

He's the whole reason that "Mirkwood" once wonderful and like Lothlorien is now more of a "murk"-wood, dark and foreboding. (Isn't Legolas the prince of Mirkwood? Do we meet his father?)

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

(Isn't Legolas the prince of Mirkwood? Do we meet his father?)

Yes. His father was Thranduil, who in The Hobbit is referred to as "the Elvenking."

Okay, I think I'm about to decide that it's time once again to re-read The Silmarillion, then The Hobbit, the LOTR (for about the hundredth time).

[Drolefille]

I need to own the Silmarillion... sadly I only have my LOTR now. I wore out my original copy of it and the Hobbit.

Think they'll stick Legolas in the film just because they can?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I need to own the Silmarillion...

I have a first edition -- bought it the day it came out.

And nah, I'm guessing they wouldn't try to stick Legolas in. Who knows, though.