Comments on: A Hurrah & A WTF!?!?

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:28:51 +0000

I would say that they should split it at the escape from the Mirkwood spiders, or just before. They could go for the cliffhanger with everyone but Bilbo captured by spiders and start from there.

At that point, you still have the Mirkwood Elves scene, the escape from that, the Laketown arrival, them trying to figure out how to get into the Lonely Mountain, Bilbo’s interaction with Smaug, and then the Battle of Five Armies (which was, to be fair, not very interestingly written in the book).

With that split, they could probably make two very decent 2 hour movies.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:31:32 +0000

I thought about that, but it didn’t make sense to me. Where do you make the division? At the Misty Mountains? Nothing happened really before that except Mutton and the Orcs. At Beorn? Well, you have the Warg scene slip in, but kind of a boring place to break. At the arrival at Laketown? Not much left of the story at that point except the Battle of 5 Armies.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:00:35 +0000

Meanwhile, I’ve read numerous things that suggest Jackson wants to split the Hobbit into two films, so as not to miss anything.

The Hobbit is about 2/3rds the size of Fellowship, and in all fairness, they cut out fully a third of that book.

Also, most of the fight scenes in the Hobbit happen fast, with the final battle being minimal. With Jackson involved, those could be great scenes, but much longer than in the book, so I can see it as a pair of films.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:47:17 +0000

*grumble* For some reason that doesn’t sit well with me. Maybe I’m just too much of a purist. I’d rather just have the movies as they stand than someone’s interpretation of vagaries and footnotes.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:05:04 +0000

The dirt that I found on the net indicates the second film will not be based on any one book, but instead be based on the appendices of LOTR to connect the events of TH to LOTR. I expect to see the White Council, Necromancer, Aragorn adventures, etc.