Finally, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey heaps exposition at the audience, which partly causes the issues stated earlier, namely slower pacing and unappealing flow. Exposition is explanatory text in a narrative, often used so the reader understands the setting of the narrative. Genres like science fiction and fantasy often have extreme amounts of exposition because they delight in making settings foreign to ours. As a result, fantasy and science fiction books sometimes spill exposition in a mundane essay known as an exposition dump. The Hobbit was careful enough to avoid relying on exposition dumps, saving the audience’s patience and disinterest. The movies, on the other hand, fill large portions of time with bulky clumps of tedious text.