ugh, Peter Jackson is now talking about making the Hobbit a trilogy. Being a two-part is barely tolerable but understandable, but splitting a single book into three parts is ridiculous. The typical Lotr movie is about 3 hours long. What does he need 9 hours for? He said he has a bunch of 'unused' footage but I think it's a cop-out that he's really just milking the hell out of it.