vardasvapors:

God the Hobbit is such a great and underrated book in so many ways, but I especially love its carpet-pulling-for-kids. Like really, if someone wanted to make an actually palatable adaption of it there’s no dearth of material for elaborating on and playing with it to make something fresh and unique, because it already is:

“Haha, wouldn’t it be fun to have a story where instead of everyone celebrating when the villain is defeated, the civilians sued the heroes for the zillion dollars in property damage they caused in the fight.”

“You mean like in the Hobbit?”

“What a twist it would be if, right after the main villain dies and the story is almost finished, Minor Villain #2 from 13 chapters ago that everyone had totally forgotten about suddenly turned up seeking revenge and killed three of the heroes.”

“You mean like in the Hobbit?”

“It would so neat to have a story about a knight slaying a dragon, but the whole thing is told from the pov of the supporting characters who messed around and caused the dragon attack in the first place, and the knight barely shows up at all.”

“You mean like in the Hobbit?”