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Originally Posted by DMRI2006
Pretty sure it's not that they wanted you to "miss out" on it -- more that they have a captive fanbase who will buy tickets and videos and extended versions and Special Editions and on and on. There's no reason this was, at max, a 2 movie story. As it is, they could've bloated it out to 4 movies and the LOTR fans would still gladly eat it all up. This 3 movie structure was about money and commerce more than art, no doubt about that IMO.
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Absolutely not true. If that were the case then they'd have decided on a trilogy at the start.
Have you seen An Unexpected Journey? Because it's clear from that film that their approach to the story has led to this. Having seen it I have a very hard time imagining how it would have worked as a two-part story with the amount of plot up until the original end point still to go. It would have taken another hour at least to take us up to that point. So it's clear from seeing it that their reasons of having filmed too much story are the real ones.
But hey. This is the internet where there's a conspiracy and a "truth" behind everything. May as well call anyone who believes jackson's reasons 'sheeple' just to really cap it off.