The Hobbit has a director and a sequel

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

So if you're such a "purist" that if it didn't come from Tolkien's pen, it's crap, then I'm sorry.

I'm well aware of the alterations made by Jackson, Walsh, & Boyens. Other than a few trifling quibbles, I'm totally fine with their changes. My "from the pen" comment was meant to convey issue with a whole new story being created. If Tolkien had written a book that detailed the goings on in Middle Earth during the period between Hobbit and Fellowship and a well written script adapted that for the screen, I wouldn't be kvetching. Admittedly, I am not a Tolkien scholar, but other than perhaps a passing mention in The Silmarillion, I'm not aware of any story he wrote about that period.

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

My "from the pen" comment was meant to convey issue with a whole new story being created.

I understand your point, I just wanted to point out that good stories about things not mentioned in the books have been written by people other than Tolkien, so I'm curious what Del Toro will do. That doesn't mean that The Hobbit 2 has to be/will become "canon". I just think an entertaining and/or compelling story has the potential to be told.

I mean sure, it may be crap in the end, but I don't think the idea is DOA.

I'm not sure why The Simarillion is being brought up though, since I'm pretty sure the only events brought up in that were pre-Hobbit to begin with.

And iSm, doing the books by "cross-cutting" through the stories was not "lazy". (if anything is lazy, doing it exactly the book's way would have been lazy) I don't think that doing it the book's way in a movie would be inherently better or worse than the way PJ did it. This is Peter Jackson's vision of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, after all. There was plenty that was changed or altered to make a better cinematic experience in PJ's estimation anyway... the only thing that was "mucked up" by doing that was the Mouth of Sauron sequence, which was a reason it was cut from the original film.