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Banrigh
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Dec 13 2012, 10:11pm
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I would have been happy whichever way round the films had been made, but I agree that if The Hobbit had been made first it would only have been one film and it would have been quite abridged. It might have been difficult for PJ (or whoever was making the series) to convince anyone from this that LOTR deserved to be made. Incidentally, I don't think this would have been the right way of looking at things - it's just how those in the movie business would have seen the situation.
One advantage of the Hobbit being first would have been that no-one would be talkng about it as a 'prequel' to LOTR - something which frankly annoys me. You want to say "It was written first, everyone. By quite a long way..." I wouldn't regard it as being poorer quality either. It has a different sort of tone to its much bigger successor, but the writing can't really be faulted. LOTR was written with lots of stops and starts and I think this does sometimes show in the writing - it's great, but it's flawed. I would also tend to agree that three films isn't enough to cover it, but if there had been more films it wouldn't have guaranteed that lots more of the interesting bits from the books would have got in. Rather it would have meant some very long action scenes and some new material, some of which would have worked, some of which wouldn't. A trilogy is a suitable way of telling the stories.
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In an ideal world should Peter Jackson have made the Hobbit before the LOTR trilogy?
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Hobbithole
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Dec 12 2012, 6:27pm
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If the 3 film LOTR hadn't been such a smashing success
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Escapist
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Dec 12 2012, 6:35pm
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Welcome to TORn :-)
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DanielLB
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Dec 12 2012, 6:45pm
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Welcome, and great question!
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NottaSackville
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Dec 12 2012, 6:52pm
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I doubt Radagast would have been in The Hobbit if PJ had made it first...
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Radagast-Aiwendil
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Dec 12 2012, 10:08pm
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Howdy and Welcome, Hobbithole :)
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grammaboodawg
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Dec 12 2012, 10:38pm
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In a totally ideal world, maybe...
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Roheryn
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Dec 13 2012, 12:32am
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Hobbit before LOTR
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sam90
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Dec 13 2012, 12:33am
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Good opening gambit Hobbithole.
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silneldor
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Dec 13 2012, 4:08am
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Ideally? Yes, probably.
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Otaku-sempai
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Dec 13 2012, 3:35pm
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If for nothing else
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Ardamírë
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Dec 13 2012, 3:52pm
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thoughts about the films
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Banrigh
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Dec 13 2012, 10:11pm
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