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In The Battle of The Five Armies, during Azog's attack on the city, Bard's children are about to be crushed by a troll (I think it's a troll, or maybe an ogre).

Bard, seeing this, grabs a nearby wagon and rides it down a path towards the troll, jumps the wagon over his children, collides with the troll, flies through the air with the troll and lands on top of the troll while simultaneously stabbing it in the heart.

Did this scene take place in the novel, or was it added for the movie?

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    Basic rule: Peter Jackson made up a ton of stuff to get his Hobbit movies up to three separate releases and you really don't have any idea what is in the book unless you read the book. It's a short book, so there is no excuse (and no reason to try to stretch it to three movies for that matter).
    – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 16:51
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    There is, of course, a reason to stretch it to 3 movies: "The Search for More Money".
    – Makyen
    Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 1:00
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    I don't understand why Peter Jackson gets so much hate for making three movies out of this book. I would be absolutely and totally happy to have 6 Hobbit movies. And i would gladly pay for those. Maybe i'm just a stupid consumer. Or maybe i just love Hobbit \ LOTR in particular and movies in general. (sorry for the rant).
    – ruslaniv
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    I hate the 3 movies because I love the Hobbit. The movies took a bunch of Tolkien's writing (which is a classic for a reason) and replaced it with bad writing. So it's not the Hobbit anymore. It's a bad rewriting/whole new thing. If it had taken 6 movies to tell a good story reasonably close to the book, I would have loved it.
    – xdhmoore
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No

In fact, the goblins don't even attack the town, so...

The 'Battle of Five Armies' in the novel is when the goblins and Wargs attack the mountain where Thorin & co are holding fort, which the elves, dwarves, and humans (and me and Beorn) on one side, and the goblins and Wargs on the other.

The only time that Laketown is attacked is when the dragon comes (and destroys it).

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    By "the village" do you mean lake town? Or "Dale" the location where the scene happened in the Movie?
    – Binary Worrier
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 12:02
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    Lake-town (Esgaroth?) not "the village" to be strictly correct with the book.
    – KorvinStarmast
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 13:38
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    me? ohhh... in character answer
    – user11521
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 19:56
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    I'm confused. If you are Mithrandir, why do you look like Sauron?
    – Oriol
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 23:08
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    @Oriol plot twist...
    – Daft
    Commented Dec 6, 2016 at 1:02

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