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

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Originally Posted by Trotter

The bottom line is, he, and the other two writers, could have made a more faithful adaption of LOTR and it would have been just as popular as the one we got.

I think there were some cases where Peter Jackson changed things for the sake of brevity and to introduce a more modern point of view. Introducing Bombadil would have been a dramatic digression, much more so in the movie than in the book. Putting Glorfindel in there would have introduced another character and removed the ability to make Arwen a more central character.

But I agree, for all of these, there are many other cases where Peter Jackson changed the story for no good reason--two best examples: 1) Gandalf and the Witch King, and 2) the handling of the scenes between Faramir and Frodo.