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   From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
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     Steuard Jensen  wrote:   
   > My guess is that film 1 will run from the start of /The Hobbit/ to the   
   > final escape from the Misty Mountains: an intense sequence fighting   
   > with goblins and wargs and a rescue by the eagles. 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). Film 3 will center on the escape to   
   > Lake Town and the various confrontations with Smaug, and will wrap up   
   > with the (overemphasized) Battle of Five Armies (and "too many   
   > endings" again). (All three films will pull in substantial chunks of   
   > historical or auxiliary content from the LotR appendices.)   
      
   That is exactly my thinking.   
      
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