>>15133846Peter Jackson's a great agent.
He knew exactly how to produce the scenes, and the material was fundamentally simple to explain to people.
It's the extreme levels of detail in Tolkien's booking that's hard to sell in a 9-hour trilogy.
The Hobbit is far smaller and way less detailed, yet Jackson had to make two 3-hour movies out of it. And then the studio said "nah we need 3, bitches love trilogies" and 'btw we're gonna add legolas, women masturbate to Orlando Bloom" and "oh we're having you cast this she-elf who wasn't in the book as this dwarf's love interest".
LOTR is the WWF.
Hobbit is WCW.
The movies even feel that way when you look at the logic of everything.
