What's the Difference between The Hobbit the Book and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug the Movie?
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This Character does not appear.
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Tauriel
Portrayed by: Evangeline Lilly
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Book vs Movie
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The sealed barrels are collected a little ways downstream by river elves and lashed into rafts, which they then drive to Laketown. Bilbo hides on a corner of the raft. |
The open barrels are chased down river by orcs. |
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No dwarves were injured between Mirkwood and Laketown |
A dwarf gets shot by an orc arrow.
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On arrival in Laketown and after being released from the barrels by Bilbo, the dwarves publicly announce themselves to the city Master and crowd. |
The dwarves slink around town aided by Bard, the barge driver. |
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Bard was a captain of the archers. |
Bard was a lowly barge driver.
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Bard doesn't enter the story until after Smaug leaves the mountain. |
Bard and his children aid the dwarves and tend the wounded. |