I'm an author by trade, and I've been streamlining some overviews so that they are spoiler-free, don't give a play-by-play rundown of an entire movie, and don't try to cram a whole novel into the Overview section. I noticed that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has a 119-word description that basically recaps the entire story in detail, but it's locked. I wanted to switch it to this:
"Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon."
If my version doesn't please you, then the IMDB version is pretty similar:
"A younger and more reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out on an "unexpected journey" to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of Dwarves to reclaim their stolen mountain home from a dragon named Smaug."
Either one would do the job of an overview without revealing major plot points, spoilers, or taking up too much space.
Thanks for your consideration.
(P.S.- IMDB (and others) are wrong to capitalize "hobbit" and "dwarf", as they are not proper nouns. You don't capitalize "human" or "dolphin", so why would you capitalize the names of other species?)
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Reply by lineker
on July 11, 2013 at 3:27 AM
I switched to your proposed overview.