Originally Posted by
Jinsai
My copy is 317 pages, but that's with large print and occasional illustrations.
I understand that he's pulling from the LotR appendices to expand the story and bridge the two. I wouldn't have seen that as necessary, but maybe it'll work. I like Peter Jackson's LotR movies, but I've felt they occasionally dragged and sometimes wallowed in unnecessary melodrama. The Hobbit could have worked if it had been a somewhat less ponderous and serious entry, and took a more direct and simple approach to the story (like the book).
Who knows though. I have faith in Peter Jackson... even if The Lovely Bones was a horrible movie.