In the films it is used as motivation to keep the dwarves moving and to tie in the Necromancer sub-plot. For much of film 1 and for film 2 he has been chasing Thorin & Co. He has a personal grudge against Thorin in the films for being a member of the House of Durin and for cutting his arm off at the previously mentioned battle outside Moria. In the films he apparently was not killed or has been brought back by the Necromancer (the former of which I think is more likely as there is no definitive explanation given in the films thus far). However, in Tolkien's story he was killed at the Battle of Azanulbizar (the battle seen in a flashback in An Unexpected Journey). He is another Tolkien character not in the actual Hobbit. This brings us right to another deviation, Azog. The dwarves are still being chased by Azog and his gang. When the previous scene concludes we land right back into the story. Sign of The Prancing Pony as seen in Fellowship of the Ring So, while many of these deviations are not in The Hobbit per se, they are in other of Tolkien's works and are critical to events that take place in later stories. Several years later, while Tolkien was working on The Lord of the Rings, he wrote a lot of back-story to the events described in The Hobbit and gave them much more meaning to the legendarium (see "The Quest for Erebor" in Unfinished Tales). The Hobbit was intended as a simple children's tale when it was published in 1937. This will be the basis for many of the changes throughout the film. There is also a fairly substantial section in the Unfinished Tales describing the conversation as well (but the writers of the film don't legally have access to that work). While this "chance" meeting never took place in The Hobbit it is mentioned in the Appendices of The Lord of the Rings.
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