Wouldn't that be the three Lord of The Rings movies that have already been released?

The Hobbit was a prequel.

wow! :)

They split The Hobbit into two movies.

Ahh. I wasn't aware of that. Seems rather odd, but I suppose it's impossible to get all the information into one movie.

Not two, three.

Wait, really? I'd heard that, but I'd heard two first. I figured some people just assumed it was a trilogy when it wasn't. Well, that's just ****ing great. Three movies from one book that wasn't even particularly long. How does that even work? There was only really one place that I could think of that you could split it into two movies (after Biblo escapes from Gollum), but how on Earth are they gonna get three movies outta this? And why would you want to?

Because it sells.

I think the original plan was two and then the studio realized they could make even more money with three. From what I've read they're going to be padded a lot with material from the LotR appendices.

he is telling the entire Necromancer story as well as the Hobbit

i still think it could be two....but whatever is all about the dollas

it made 85 million this weekend!

edit: Disregard. Got ninja'd by Jansz