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   From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm   
      
   On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 01:10:01 +0000 (UTC), Steuard Jensen wrote:   
   >   
   > [I've posted this on my blog, but it clearly belongs here, too.]   
   >   
   > Peter Jackson confirmed recently that he will make The Hobbit into   
   > three movies, rather than two as formerly planned. To my eye, this is   
   > a spectacularly bad idea.   
   >   
   > And Christopher Tolkien abhors the way that   
   >    Jackson warped the essential themes of LotR.)   
   >   
   > After writing all that, I saw a wonderfully concise statement of the   
   > issue that someone shared on Facebook: "Bilbo's reaction to the   
   > announcement of a 3rd movie was actually already quoted in The Lord of   
   > the Rings: 'I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over   
   > too much bread.'"   
      
   I agree with all three of those comments.   
      
   > Anyone else have thoughts on the three-movie idea?   
      
   It's three times as bad as letting him make one movie of /The   
   Hobbit/.   
      
   No, strike that, because it's non-linear.  The badness of three   
   movies is as the cube of the badness of one movie.   
      
   No, still not bad enough. Exponential function, anyone?   
      
      
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