@Tobar... :)
@mrebo...I guess the Necromancer was originally just a plot device until LOTR, where he was supposed to be the same individual. But Tolkein didn't have it all mapped out yet when he wrote The Hobbit.
http://www.shmoop.com/hobbit/the-necromancer.html
So I'm wondering, how do folks here enjoy the frame rate? How was the story? Would it have been better to keep the story as one or two films? Or do you think it made a good first of three tales?