Two films for The Hobbit? Invented materials to "fill in the gaps"?

[The Saucepan Man]

You know, it seems to me that Jackson's ideas might be along the very lines that many here have been suggesting for some time with regard to any Hobbit film - its expansion into two films and the inclusion of the White Counsel's assault on Dol Guldur. I always had some reservations about that suggestion for the very reason that it would take the focus off Bilbo, the Dwarves and Smaug.

Nevertheless, perhaps we should refrain from getting too worked up about it until it's a little clearer exactly how it's going to turn out (or, indeed, if it is ever going to "turn out" at all).