The Hobbit.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

It's been a while since you read it, hasn't it.

D'oh!

[Spexxvet]

OK. Here's the bird's eye low-down on this caper. Yesterday I heard an interview with a "Tolkien Scholar". He was asked if the movie seemed "stretched", in order to fill out three movies. He said that Jackson has incorporated goings-on in Middle Earth that happened during the time that The Hobbit takes place, but were not included in the story. He got them from the LOTR appendices (probably The Tale Of Years). Off hand, I remember that Gandalf's reason for leaving the company at Mirkwood was that he met with The White Council, who subsequently drove The Necromancer out of Dol Guldor. This would explain Galadriel's and Saruman's inclusion in the movies.

Having learned this, I'm all in for 3 movies.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

OK. Here's the bird's eye low-down on this caper. Yesterday I heard an interview with a "Tolkien Scholar". He was asked if the movie seemed "stretched", in order to fill out three movies. He said that Jackson has incorporated goings-on in Middle Earth that happened during the time that The Hobbit takes place, but were not included in the story. He got them from the LOTR appendices (probably The Tale Of Years). Off hand, I remember that Gandalf's reason for leaving the company at Mirkwood was that he met with The White Council, who subsequently drove The Necromancer out of Dol Guldor. This would explain Galadriel's and Saruman's inclusion in the movies.

Having learned this, I'm all in for 3 movies.

Awesome! I can't wait.

When I heard it was in three parts, I automatically assumed that Peter Jackson was going to fill in the story by fleshing out events that were known to have happened at that time. I think I even said to Pooka something about I hope they show us what Gandalf was doing when he went off on his business. The best thing about Tolkein's world is that there is no guesswork--somehwere in his other works the details are recorded.

Last night Pooka and I were discussing how they might break the story into three parts. As we have already seen Gollum in the trailers, I assume the first movie gets them to under the mountain. That leaves the wolves, eagles, Beorn, Mirkwood, the spiders, the capture by elves, escape and barrel ride, Laketown, investigating the mountain, Smaug, killing Smaug, showdown at the Dwarves stronghold, and the battle of the five armies.