little moments from the book that the film missed...

That's more included then most little moments from the book.

You're correct though, of course.

On a happier note Eldo, I actually liked, for a moment, the bit where Thranduil "sees" Bilbo hiding in his chambers.
The elven-king is, of course, only talking to Tauriel, but I think I would have enjoyed a scene between Bilbo and Thranduil. Lee Pace and Martin Freeman acting off each other might yield some interesting stuff.
At the very least, it would have been a counterpart to Elrond and Bilbo's conversation in AUJ.

A BIG thing the movie missed was the significance of the archway through which Bilbo must walk to enter the treasure-hoard chamber. Bilbo peeks around it in the book, and the second time in Smaug's lair nearly walks right into view of the dragon, before he catches the gleam of his half-lidded eye. In the film, the physical play between the two occurs on top of a sand-dune-like MOUNTAIN of treasure resulting in Bilbo's sliding and bumping around in wide-angle shots for much of the dialogue.

And what was up with the amount of treasure? Erebor is too way too damn big, and there is way too much frickin' treasure inside Smaug's lair.
Smaug's lair wasn't even a lair, it was a vast city of columns filled with a veritable sea of gold. My modern mentality immediately jumped to the idea of devaluation, and how little value gold would actually have if such store existed in those sparsely-populated days.

"Oh yeah, here, let me pay for my supper with gold... Ten pounds about cover it?"


See the bloody difference??