Reply To: LotR revisited – what Peter Jackson got right and what he didn't

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The Hobbit does have a ton material, but I’d argue that with a better focus on what it had to be they would not have over stretched some parts while reducing other key scenes to a fraction of the run time they needed.

And with that much material that silly romance angle only added more wasted runtime on things that didn’t move the plot along.

There’s a good reason why Tolkien only ever wrote the additional stuff as an appendix instead of making it part of the main story. Whoever wrote the scripts should have understood that part before even attempting to plug bits of that into the movies.