The Hobbit Trilogy: 5 Changes That Worked And 5 That Didn't
4. Beorn Being Sidelined
Beorn is a critically important character in the Hobbit novel. The shape-shifter is one of the main reasons that the alliance of elves, men and dwarves are able to fend off the advancing ranks of orcs and goblins, arriving just in time with a pack of griffins to turn the tide in their favour. With that in mind, you would expect his scenes in The Battle Of The Five Armies to be suitably glorious but no, all he's given is about five seconds of screen time. Free-falling through the sky after being dropped of by a griffin, Beorn promptly changes into his monstrously huge beast form and proceeds to trample through a stream of orcs. That's it. The decision to sideline Beorn in such a fashion made the character feel extremely shoehorned into the film, and the entire sequence stinks of being an afterthought rather than a genuine decision to include him. With so many discrepancies between the book and the films, it's baffling to see such a memorable character get nary more than a few frames of screen time.
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