Originally Posted by MicShazam

It ought to be possible to do one 3 hour movie of the original story without hurrying things along.
The current trilogy is around 8 hours, which is just excessive.
Big epic trilogies sell tickets, I guess.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.