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Emma D

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Fantastic news that not only is "The Hobbit" starting pre-production in January, not only that there are two films being shot back to back for 2010,2011 release, but the best is Peter Jackson is on board with New Line as he has settled his litigation with the studios.

My question is though, what is the second film going to contain? The Hobbit itself is not exactly a huge book, but there is a weaalth of material contained in the silmarillion , unfinished tails etc, but very little happens after the Hobbit finishes and Fellowship starts.

What areeveryones views please?
 
theres more than enough in the Hobbit to fill two films. think about it

Dwarfs meeting at bag-end
Trolls
Rivendale
Goblins
Getting the ring
Escaping the misty mountains
Beron
Mirkwood/Spiders
Wood Elves
River-town
Lonely Mountain
Smaug
Killing of Smaug
Battle of Five Armies...

Thats a lot to fill in one film....

Actually a lot does happen between the Hobbit and LOTR..The white council deal with the necromancer( or is that during the Hobbit?), tracking gollum, the rise of Sauron in Mordor...
 
I think that is during the Hobbit, isn't that while Bilbo and the dwarves arrive at the elf kings home on the edge of Mirkwood, and before they get to Dale?
 
yes because gandalf left them just before they entered the forest. he went to the council and then they forced the necromancer out of dol guldur in the south
That story doesn't really have anything to do with the hobbit though and i don't see them trying too hard to give all the links to lord of the rings (was the necromancer even mentioned in the films? i don't remember it being)
i would love even one or two stories of the silmarillion being put in film because although very male orientated some of the stories could be spectacular.
 
I thought that Sauron was the Necromancer? Then he left Mirkwood and fled to Mordor where he started preparing for his huge-big-nasty-orc war against the rest of Middle Earth? It has been a while since I've read either the Hobbit or LOTR though, so I'm probably wrong. :D

And PJ is back in control! Huzzah!! :D
 
i dont think they did the whole driving him out of mirkwood was glossed over in the hobbit but not sure if more was written -hopefully there was and that is what is going to be filmed
 
I doubt very much if the Necromancer will have a large part in the film. From what I can recall of the book I'd say a good natural break for the first film will be when the dwarves get captured by the elves of Mirkwood. In the book the captivity lasts months while Bilbo comes up with the plan to escape. To stop the first film there and then pick it up a year later with the escape would be a good way of handling the long time spent in the cells.

The second film can then concentrate on Smaug and the Battle of the Five Armies.
 
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