Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
I'M STIL NOT COMPLETELY SURE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT. I JUST WISH WE KNEW IF THE HOBBIT ITSELF IS GOING TO BE SPLIT INTO TWO MOVIES, OR IF THEY ARE GOING TO DO THE OTHER BOOK TOO.

I am pretty sure The Hobbit is going to be slpit in two. I really don't think there is enough material there for two movies, but they make twice as much money that way. If they are going to do The Hobbit as one film and something else as the other, they really don't have much to go by as far as completed Tolkien material goes. They might make something up on their own, perhaps they could take ideas from the Silmarillion and other volumes of incompleted Tolien material and merge them into a working story. But I really don't think that is the case. I suppose they could also pull something together from Tolkien's other children's stories, but non of them actually take place in Middle-Earth. No, I am pretty sure The Hobbit will be in two parts, and with a lot of added material. Though if it turns out to be just one film, and the other is some hodgepodge they manage to cook up I will be much happier, because then The Hobbit comes out and I won't have to be waiting another year for the second half or the sequel. I couldn't care less about something they throw together themselves.

Also, I am pretty sure they do not have the film rights to do the Silmarillion or any other of Tolkiens stuff. So this really does leave us with two halves a Hobbit or something they make up on their own.

Perhaps since they already own the rights to The Lord of the Rings, they could adapt the appendix of the book into a movie of its own.