The Hobbit Movie

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The three films might not be as simple as The Hobbit book being split into three parts. The announcement from Jackson's facebook read: "...I'd like to announce that two films will become three."

The two films were not originally going to be meant to both be The Hobbit. Along with a single Hobbit movie, Jackson wanted to create a film adaptation based upon part of the Silmarillion, but the film rights for those stories are not up for grabs. So the plan was to create an entirely new LOTR mythos drawing from the Hobbit and the trilogy that acted sort of as a sequel to the Hobbit. Note that any information from the Silmarillion and all other works of Tolkein's is stricly off-limits for these films. Jackson would have to draw very heavily upon already established mythos as well as newly created stories and characters.

I see a few possibilities for the direction Jackson might decide to go, but I don't think that the Hobbit movie itself will be bastardized for the sake of these other two movies. Perhaps they will dive deeper into the book or extend it in some way while leaving the original intact.

Wow I never knew that, I loved the Silmarillion as well. Even though it wasn't a single story per say.

Shame they couldn't get the rights. Christopher Tolkien shame on you. Hopefully Jackson just changes the names around slightly Morgoth could become Korgoth or something of the like hehe.