Peter Jackson must be stopped

[minionofmidas]

How can there conceivably be enough material in even The Hobbit plus all relevant portions of The History of Middle-Earth  for a trilogy?

You'd need one (normal length movies) to do it justice, not that I assume Jackson could achieve that if he tried, just as LOTR would have needed to be twice the length it actually was (and all the invented crap cut out - and that's more than half of Jackson's second part).

[minionofmidas]

There is material for several full length movies from the leftout chapters of the main body of LOTR. Some of those might even be doable without explicitly contradicting the original Jackson version.

[minionofmidas]

Woah, neither the guy who wrote that nor anybody in his target audience has read The Hobbit, has read The Lord of the Rings, or could imagine an IQ even higer than Peter Jackson's gigantic, overpowering, 70.

[minionofmidas]

It does seem like a bit much, if you ask me. I don't particularly like Lord of the Rings, but I do recall enjoying The Hobbit as a kid. I do not remember it being the lengthiest novel.

It is not.

But then, movie versions of novels rarely excite people familiar with the book even without stooping to Jacksonite levels.
Just compare Trainspotting the movie to Trainspotting the novel... so glad I knew the movie first.