The book is 280 pages!
He's seriously not even covering 100 pages per film. It's going to take longer to watch his bloated Special Editions than to read the book.

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Three movies for LOTR, three movies for The Hobbit? Something doesn't add up...

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It all adds up...ca-ching $

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While I think the £££ are wracking up for new line, I don't think the same is true for the films production team. They are trying to make the best films they can.

The films aren't based just on the hobbit, but everything going on around the book. Eg gandalf buggers off for whole chapters of the books, but nothing is ever mentioned about it. We find out in the lotrs appendix what happened in that time frame, and that's what's being used to fill out the films.

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I'm pretty excited about it. You guys are only talking about The Hobbit, there's also Necromancer and the White Council and from the trailer it looks like we'll see Gandalf sneaking into Dol Gilder to see Thrain.

It sounds like PJ just had way to much footage after filming and pitched making three movies out of it. Obviously the studios would support making money off of three movies for the cost of basically one big one, since it was all filmed at once.

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I trust Jackson to put three good flicks out there. But, it's still a bit humorous that The Hobbit will get close to equal screen time as the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

I'd like to see the math. If 280 pages gets 3 movies, how many movies would it have taken to get through LOTR?

280 pages, plus a few chapters of non-narrative summaries of the history from The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and the Apendices from the end of LOTR.

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Add to that the fact that they missed absolutely huge chunks from lotrs (the entire end of return of the king with the scouring of the shire, the barrow wraiths and Tom bombadil being good examples) and massive sections of the book, like the council at rivendel, which take up 200 pages on their own, was reduced to about 4 minutes on screen.

When you take out all those bits and take out the appendix from lotrs it probably drops it down to about 400 pages. Actually, there probably not a lot less story narrative in the hobbit than lotrs when you cut out the crap.

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Right, LOTR moves a lot slower than The Hobbit. I think making it three movies will make it feel more epic. Because of how quickly The Hobbit moves in the book it doesn't quite feel like a "big adventure" once translated to the big screen.

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