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Well it didn't have to -- but what he ended up doing was a ridiculous mishmash of both styles (you've got that awful rabbit chase thing, and then cut suddenly some giant black shadow is murdering Gandalf while trumpets roll). Shoulda stuck to lighthearted etc etc, lots of jollity, like the animated one from way back. But then they made it longer, added grim backstory that in the book Hobbit is never mentioned because it's too depressing for children and it was all over.