[Nepeta]

Two movies sounds like someone is trying to milk too much from too little material. I recently re-read The Hobbit, and just don't think it justifies 2/3s of the treatment of LOTR.

A pox upon Tom Bombadil. Everytime I force myself to read that section, I have to wonder if Tolkien wrote this part before he had any idea where the rest of the story might go, and he was reluctant to take a blue pencil to it later.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

They are going to include some of the darker material that occurs only as stories in The Hobbit, such as the White Council and the Necromancer.