Saw the extended preview at the movies this past Friday...I know someone is going to get mad but...I wasn't really that impressed.

Ya looks like a snoozefest.

3 FILMS IS 1 TOO MANY.

The Hobbit was what a 100 minute animated cartoon?

I thought it was a 2 part movie.

Ugh...really? The Hobbit is a kid's book and a fast read. Where are they going to get all this material?

Hollywood is milking this LOTR train as long as they can (I think I mixed up several cliches there...)

The Hobbit is a 310 page book. The LOTR is a 1500 page epic with each book being 500 pages or more. How in the world can the milk they Hobbit to 3 movies!? Are they gonna make a trilogy of Goodnight Moon next?

I told my wife that the first book would involve all the dwarves showing up and lunch.

The second movie would be all of the crap in Moria/Goblintown.

The third will be the lonely mountain, 3 seconds of Bard killing Smaug, and 90 minutes of walking treasure back to town.

They're trying to appeal to the MMO people.

If a Cat in the Hat movie exists...

Apparently they are drawing on 125 pages of additional, unpublished Tolkien writing and notes and are fleshing out characters beyond what is in the book.

No pin until 2014 is a bit sad though

I've heard that, too. Apparently, the intent is to wrap up all the loose ends and provide more backstory to LOTR.

So, it's like the Star Wars prequels...midnight showing here I come!

The fact that Peter Jackson left out Tom Bombadil from the LOTR still makes me disappointed. He better not leave anything out in this one then.

I don't get the 3 movie thing either, so lets compare the screen adaptation of Harry Potter, which was an abridged version of the series. The adaptations went from 120 to 380 pages per hour of film. An unabridged adaptation of The Hobbit would run closer to 100 pages per film hour, and we'd wind up with a 3.5 hour film adaptation of The Hobbit... or three 1.2 hour movies? Seems like they would need some filler, or longer action scenes, or something.

Concerning the pin....the storyline is well known, and the first film comes out in 2012, so on the surface it shouldn't have any impact, making a good excuse to give the pin custom animation and voices. But this is JJP with an LCD, so actual movie clips and voices may be higher quality coming directly from the film, which would imply all 3 need to be out first... so a valid concern by the OP.

I get the impression that at best JJP #3 is The Hobbit, and I anticipate JJP to run 1 game per year, implying 2014 for any Hobbit pin anyhow, so maybe it's all a non-issue...

This might change JJP's strategy as I am sure it was the intention for Hobbit to be number 2. But 2014? 3 movies? Too many really.

Could work out in that might get that unlicensed pin by Nordman now

IF that's the pin coming next, at this point it does look pretty likely to be 2014 anyway, but it would be hoped that JJP would have good communication with WETA (that is Jackson's studio right?), or at least have read the book enough to only keep in the necessary stuff, maybe drop some plausible extras in as easter eggs.

The pin probably wouldn't need character development all that much anyway, just the action of it all.

Now the speculation about what JJP #2 will be is really going to heat up. Unlicensed opportunity! Time to get creative.

Tom is a freakin' badass in Lord of the Rings Online. Blows up elite master wights with lightning while squirrels and ducks and dogs follow him around. WHAT. EVER!!

It's a shame that Tolkien never really got around to explaining who or what he actually is. He's not an angel. He's not a demon. He's not Eru. What the hell is he?

Hence the exclusion from LOTR

Last I heard it is a garage project 60% complete that came with one of the designers.

For sure they need to make at least one a year with Stern making 3 or 4!

They are making 3 movies because my friend told me each one will cost hundreds of millions of dollars (one rumor says up to 400 million!) and this way they have a much better chance of turning a bigger profit.

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I wonder what J.r.r. would think if somebody told em a billion dollars would be spent turning his fantasy epic into films.

He'd say....my precious.....

It can't be as bad as Toy Story 4, which I will not be watching.

3 movies for the Hobbit? Don't know what to say to this one. Are they doing the Silmarillion too?

Yeah. Beorn is pretty badass too.

This is silly. The Hobbit is a fun, quick, children's story. It is not LOTR. Making this more than it is, is not the way to go. All of a sudden I am not looking forward to this.

Well it has sentimental value for me since it was the first book I ever read (or at least remember reading.) I remember the house that I lived in when I read it and figure I was 8-9. I read a lot of "children's" books still. I'm weird, I read hard core philosophy and science too. My favorite kids books as of the last couple of years have been the Last Apprentice series. The book I'm reading right now is based in the world of the video game Oblivion. I'm a huge nerd! Bring on The Hobbit!

I loled!

Yeah, and didn't Cat in the Hat really deviate away from the book just to fill in it's time?

I'm hoping they're better than the LOTR movies.

Where the Wild Things Are is only 338 words and Spike Jonze made a pretty cool film.

Agree that 3 is probably too many though.

Well....the Hobbit is about as bad a theme as it gets for me so I hope they delay this thing for a few years....

Wonder if the Hobbit is only 45 minutes long....

Here is the theme song.

lol, heard this for the first time on the radio in St. Louis last week. On a rock station no less.
Must have been tired of chasing Klingons. Maybe he was intrigued by their pointy ears. Truly a low point in his career.

That's almost as bad as Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"...!

...wha?!

Link to book based on Oblivion? I would love to read that if it's good, Oblivion is my favorite video game EVER. (I still revisit it every now and then to bring holy vengeance down on the town of Hackdirt)

Ah, Obilivion. Bethesda's last hurrah at maintaining any semblance of what made TES awesome in the first place.

Skyrim is a great game, but it's more like Redguard than Daggerfall. Too much emphasis on action, no custom spells.. blah. I understand WHY they removed custom spells, I just think it's a crock to suddenly take out a major gameplay feature that completely dominated Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion. I just have to settle for backstabbing and cutting people's throats with epic sneaking skills.

Because that's what the Dragonborn does in my world.

So what does everyone make of Jack's latest comments???

"We don't have The Hobbit so this is moot at this time.

If we did, the game would be released as or just after the second
movie is released. "

Thought Hobbit was nailed down!

I never read anywhere that the Hobbit was nailed down. I read he was pursuing the license so everyone thought it was as good as done since LOTR was made. I haven't read anywhere what the 2nd and 3rd pins themes will be either.

knee slap

Why are they doing three films?

Why three reasons of course!!!

1. PArt 1- Money

2. Part 2- More Money

3. Part 3- And Even More Money!!!

3 movies is fine by me if there only 90 minutes. But 9 hours oh my i cant do it again not in the theater anyway.

Book1: http://www.amazon.com/The-Elder-Scrolls-Infernal-City/dp/0345508017

Book2: http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Souls-Elder-Scrolls-Novel/dp/0345508025/ref=pd_sim_b_2

Wow Where the hell did you find that, Laugh

Wonder if the license has become too expensive now it is a trilogy??

He has also confirmed no Elvira pin.

Says even he doesn't know what second pin will be but will be out late 2013.

I keep hearing JJP #2 will be Pinball Donut Girl

Lord, lets just hope for an adult theme. JJP's people that help him make decisions scare me somewhat (the label on the invisiglass they told him was a great idea and the WOZ theme for game No. 1 are the examples). Let's hope they poll other outside people (like older customers or something) and get us some kind of cool action packed theme like Stern has been doing with games like XMen and Tron.

I have faith in JJP and will be in on his second pin if the theme is good. I'm actually glad it is not going to be the hobbit...I would be worried he would go off the 80's cartoon.

I'm not a fan. Not even a little bit.