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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
   On 2012-08-02 03:14, Steuard Jensen wrote:   
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   > My guess is that after watching a rough cut of most of what he's   
   > filmed, Jackson couldn't find any good place to make that split...   
   > but with a bit more work, he he could see a good way to split it   
    > in three.   
      
   I think that is as plausible an explanation as any other that I've seen.   
   We might also speculate studio pressure or even that Jackson himself has   
   caught the Dragon-sickness, but I don't think that any of these   
   explanations are more plausible than yours.   
      
      
      
   > Film 2 will be a lot like Jackson's /The Two Towers/: those on the   
   > primary quest will travel slowly toward their isolated mountain   
   > destination until everyone but a single hobbit is locked up, while   
   > a secondary thread will split off and wind up occupying most of the   
   > movie's runtime with a single battle scene blown wildly out of   
   > proportion beyond the attention Tolkien actually gave it (the White   
   > Council driving Sauron from Dol Guldur, in this case).   
      
   I think that if we use Jackson's /Two Towers/ as the model (a good   
   choice, IMO) that the main quest will end with the Hobbit riding barrels   
   down the forest river -- to mirror his /TT/ ending with the release /   
   escape of the three hobbits by / from Faramir at Osgiliath. This will   
   allow both story-lines of the second film to end on a high point rather   
   than one ending on a low point and one on a high point.   
      
   Judging by what I have seen, I think the exaggeration of the   
   non-confrontation at Dol Guldur is a given thing -- in particular since   
   Tolkien apparently never wrote much about it (this means that Jackson   
   can do whatever he wants, and nobody can say that his vision is   
   explicitly contradicted by Tolkien . . .).   
      
   > All three films will pull in substantial chunks of historical or   
   > auxiliary content from the LotR appendices.)   
      
   I just can't see that there is enough material there for "substantial   
   chunks" except by the same process of blowing wildly out of proportion   
   that is very nearly a given thing for the Council driving Sauron out of   
   Dol Guldur.   
      
   > Plausible?   
      
   Alas . . .   
      
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