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Originally Posted by MattyC
posted in Reccommend thread but I'll put it here too.
I liked the Hobbit. But its really been too long since I read the book for me to remember which parts were in the book and which parts have been added (although I think it's pretty clear anything having to do with Sauron and such wasn't).
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Sort of. I haven't seen the second film yet, so I'm not sure just how much of a role he plays in Jackson's movie, but the presence of Sauron is heavily hinted at in the book. There's a bunch of stuff that happens off screen (i.e. not from Bilbo's point of view) where Gandalf leaves the dwarves to investigate "the Necromancer". So it's not like Jackson completely made up any scenes involving Gandalf and Sauron.
http://askmiddlearth.tumblr.com/post...he-necromancer
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In the book version of The Hobbit the Necromancer is a periphery character. He’s only mentioned in passing by Gandalf as an explanation not only for where he disappears to every once in a while, but also why the company has to travel through the very dangerous Mirkwood instead of travelling around it. Beyond that, Tolkien believed that the mention of a greater evil beyond his protagonists’ abilities would add depth and realism to the story.
It’s important to understand, though, that The Hobbit was written before Tolkien had even come up with the concept of The Lord of the Rings. He’d already created Sauron (the events of the First Age are the first things Tolkien wrote, though none of it was published until The Silmarillion, after his death), and he knew that the Necromancer was actually Sauron, but he didn’t bother making this connection known in The Hobbit, since he didn’t think it was useful to the reader. And it really wasn’t, until he later wrote and published LOTR.
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