The Hobbit

I was watching the Hobbit last week with my oldest son. At the end, after surviving the rock giants' battle. fighting the goblins, running away from the gollum and almost loosing the battle with the orcs, the wizard sent a butterfly message to the giant birds to save the dwarfs and the hobbit and bring them closer to their destination.

We asked ourselves - why didn't he called the birds earlier? They could have taken the dwarfs and the hobbit and bring them all the way to the end.

At first I answered: if that happened the movie would have been very short and boring. Then after few days I thought - it is not the final destination, it is the journey that is important here to teach the dwarfs and the hobbit what they are capable of and what they are really fighting for.