Hobbit films direcotr Benicio Del Toro describes how the first Hobbit film will be the Hobbit book sotry, but the second film will be a ramp up to the LOTR film series imitative of Jackson’s shooting style, making a seamless nod to the LOTR trilogy fr a five film symphony.

LOTR ends with Galadriel or someone saying that the time of the elves, of Sauron, is ended. There is a change, they can feel it in the water, taste it in the air. Well, if the war with Sauron and the battle for Middle Earth is so nigh. why don’t the Lords of Valinor just [...]