"Hobbit in 5"

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Morthoron

For all that, I am not even sold on the necessity of having two films to tell the story. Having seen what Jackson and Boyens did with LotR, it seems to me that having two Hobbit films is merely their chance to add extraneous material -- what amounts to glorified fan-fic -- in order to put their curious stamp on the story. In the LotR films, it was not what was taken out that proved the most rankling, it was the hot mess that was added in.

I agree that they probably could cogently tell the story of Bilbo's adventure, sticking with what's in the actual book. But then you wouldn't see Galadriel, or Saruman. Or Legolas. After all, the Ring alone surely isn't a clear enough link between TH and LOTR for the modern audience.