I will still enjoy as many films as they make, despite personal grievances over certain deviations. Much worse films could be made in their place.
There is less dialogue, less landscape description, and more of a linear action/episodic feel to
The Hobbit, so this must mean he is not skipping
anything. I'm curious about where the divisions will be.
It is peculiar to see each volume of
Lord of the Rings - themselves each longer than the whole of
The Hobbit - spliced down into a single three-hour movie, while
The Hobbit is being split into three movies on its own. Surely two two-hour movies for each of these volumes would've resulted in a more evenhanded experience.
As Jackson himself asks in
his Facebook announcement, "do we take this chance to tell more of the tale?" His answer "was an unreserved ‘yes.'"
If so, then where's Tom Bombadil and Old Man Willow? Radagast, and the Barrow-Wight? The Scouring of the Shire, Saruman's real demise? Why devote precious moments to the silly fan fiction sequences of Arwen, Aragorn, and his horse when there's a tale to be told?