Another quibble with PJ movies

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by CSteefel

But the prologue provided by Peter Jackson effectively destroys this suspense by letting the viewer know right up front that this is the one ring.

Had The Hobbit been made as a prequel to the film trilogy, then there might have been some mileage in Jackson slowly revealing the true nature of the Ring.

However, since non-book readers will be unfamiliar with the Ring's recent back history and book readers will know the true nature of the Ring anyway, I am not sure that there is much to be gained, in terms of suspense, by gradually revealing this.