9 Movie Prequels That Created Massive Plot Holes

1. Gandalf Is A Forgetful Idiot - The Hobbit Trilogy

Even thought there were plenty of The Lord Of The Rings characters not in Tolkien's original book present in The Hobbit films, for the most part that didn't mess with their later appearance (bar Legolas being sent to find Aragorn). In fact, the character Jackson bungled the most was one of the few who actually plays a prominent role in both stories and shouldn't require any contrivances to adapt.

At the start of The Fellowship Of The Ring, Gandalf has to rush off to Minas Tirith to research Bilbo's One Ring and comes to the shocking conclusion that Sauron has returned. Which really shouldn't be all that surprising, given he faced the Necromancer in The Desolation Of Smaug, correctly identifying him as the Dark Lord.

Sure, Saruman said he was going to take care of him in The Battle Of The Five Armies, but, after Galadriel at full power could only banish him, shouldn't Sauron's survival have been a major possibility? Although to get to that point he's already shown some uncharacteristic stupidity.

In his final scene of The Battle Of The Five Armies he reveals to Bilbo he knows he has a magic ring (because one more nod to The Lord Of The Rings was needed) and clearly doesn't buy the hobbit's claim of losing it, yet shows genuine surprise when Mr. Baggins whips it out sixty years later at his birthday. Did he just forget everything that happened with the Lonely Mountain?

Gandalf isn't an all-knowing being, shown to have his vices and logical oversights in the original trilogy, but after The Hobbit it looks like he followed Radagast's lead and spent the intervening years eating memory-altering mushrooms.

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