Peter Jackson has found a gold mine in Tolkien's work. First with the original Lord of the Rings Trilogy, which won countless accolades and made Jackson one of the most sought after directors in the world. He has done it again with the prequel "The Hobbit". He has essentially turned a 310 page book into a 3 part movie series and they aren't short movies either!
In a recent interview with Hypable, Jackson explained, "What it does is allow you to let the characters drive the story. In a novel, the writer of the novel is often the person who narrates the story, the person who takes you on the journey," Jackson explains. "Tolkien's voice is obviously fantastic at doing that. You feel like he's right beside you, telling you a bed time story. In the movie, you don't want me on screen talking about what's happening. So, in a film you have to have the story told through the dialogue of the characters, through the actions of the characters."
So there we have it folks! The line of thinking makes sense. It's hard translating a third person narrative from book form into a compelling movie that isn't filled with an endless voiceover explaining what is going on to the reader. The world that Tolkien has created is vast and is big enough to make this children's novel into such an expansive story.
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