The Hobbit movies would have been vastly improved by going the same route as the The Princess Bride movie
Just constant cuts to the future with Frodo chiming in as Bilbo tells the story to be like âthatâs not how you told it when I was little!â and âwait, you never mentioned these orcs chasing you!â
And Bilbo hems and haws like âwell, I didnât want to scare the childrenâ etc and we see the same scene get replayed multiple times with slight variations as Frodo and Bilbo bicker about the details of what actually happened
(And then we can do an extra gut-punch at the end where Bilbo tells the little kids âyeah, the dwarves were all fine, nobody died, they recovered from their wounds and went on to rule the kingdomâ and maybe we get a glimpse of a universe where that happened⊠but Bilbo turns away as soon as the children are gone and stared out the window while he relives the truth all over again đ)














