the stone giants were in the book and it was not explained in the book why were they fighting

Even the scene in LOTR was not following the book if i remember correctly. Radagast was passing along a message to this particular eagle for Gandalf, and he arrived at Saruman's tower and Gandalf asked him for help. I could be remembering it wrong though, need to consult the books

Meaning again, Gandalf doesn't go around summoning the eagles on a whim 

then don't watch movies at 1080p because it is too clear like they are talking to you 

You are right, of course. In the books, there were no moths. I was referring to Peter Jackson's version which was inconsistent. The time it took the moth to relay the message varied greatly. Thus I was wondering if moths on Jackson's Middle Earth could break the sound barrier in flight. Wouldn't it have been cool to see the little moth make a tiny cone shaped cloud and hear the sonic boom as it broke through the sound barrier? 

Bro, you have to chill a bit with Peter Jackson. It is Hollywood after all. Do you remember the Frodo at Mount Doom part right before the lava? The ring had initially cursed Gollum that if he is to touch the ring again, he will fall to his death in Mount Doom. It is a very critical part because the message by Tolkien then is that Evil will defeat itself. Frodo is never meant to snatch the ring from Gollum but in the movies with Frodo snatching and him hanging precariously with only one arm is so much more dramatic.

Well, I was just wondering. Any kind of story on any kind of media does need some degree of suspension of disbelief on the reader's/viewer's to work but if you go too far, people start complaining. 

Wizards, elves and what-not can exist but the imaginary world still need to abide by some form of logic and that logic needs to be consistent. We can see that Gandalf is a wizard adept at fire and light magic but if he starts to spew laser bolts out from his fingers, people will start to complain.

The moth case is just inconsistent. Not a biggie.

Have you considered that where Gandalf is in The Hobbit may be alot closer to the Eagles nest then compared to Saruman's Tower...

Totally silly answer.

Just being silly!!

Possible for me to understand the story of this movies if I never watch any lord of the ring series before ?

Possible for me to understand the story of this movies if I never watch any lord of the ring series before ?

Very good question and the answer is, YES!

This story/movie takes place BEFORE The Lord of The Ring.

Personally, I would RECOMMEND you see it in the 48fps 3D format.

Again, emphasis on the word, personally

Hope this helps

Thanks ! Will catch this movie up tonight. So,after I watch this..I can follow up LOTR 

You are right, of course. In the books, there were no moths. I was referring to Peter Jackson's version which was inconsistent. The time it took the moth to relay the message varied greatly. Thus I was wondering if moths on Jackson's Middle Earth could break the sound barrier in flight. Wouldn't it have been cool to see the little moth make a tiny cone shaped cloud and hear the sonic boom as it broke through the sound barrier? 

The real reason for the apparently stupid move done by the giant eagles is because Jackson did not follow Tolkien's version of how it happened in The Hobbit.

In the book, the eagles were NOT summoned. Gandalf did not summon them. They were just flying by when they saw the fire below and investigated. When they saw that goblins are harassing the party, they decided to help because they had no love for goblins. So they swooped down, picked the party up and dropped them just out of the goblin's reaches. It was done more to spite the goblins than anything.

And yes, they were intelligent and could talk in the book but Jackson never told his audience that. It kinda made sense in the book. Although I must say that it was a good idea to have the eagles fly them all the way. Save all the trouble. Haha. And you're not the first one to bring up this question. There were some who asked in LOTR why not just have the eagles fly Frodo to Mt. Doom so he could just chuck the ring in. It would have been a very short story if that had happened.

funny that most of my frens are not fans....but they enjoyed the movie and everything is understood, without 'thorough explaination'. PJ done well there.

when I posted the question, I haven't finished reading book yet until now.

now that I finished it, I kinda have a glimpse of what will happened in the third movie. and kinda sad

I'm waiting for lady galadriel to destroy dol goldur with her epic magical powers , together with gandalf, elrond, radagast, and sarumon

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Dol Goldur already destroyed by the time of The Hobbit? And I do not think Saruman would take part as he was the one secretly trying to find the one ring and trying to keep everyone in the dark about Sauron's re-appearance.

Dol Guldur was somewhat abandoned by Hobbit.... Re-established by LOTR... and finaly destroyed by Galadriel when Sauron's defeat with the destruction of the RING... as per Wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_Guldur