I was glad to see radigast, the spiders, the eagles, and other features, and as I saw the movie, I was thinking about how I saw all of them in LOTR: War in the North. It was exciting. ^o^
Though the book came first , it still was cool to see LOTR WITN features.
I loved the movie and LOTR, i just with the Hobit would have stuck more towards the book instead of running all the time, with all the running they did it took away from the story a bit, however the rock giants were a nice touch even though they weren't in the book :3