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I dunno, man. I don't think it had to be that way based on the way he did LotR. After all, Peter Jackson also did Bad Taste and The Frighteners. I suspect that the general consensus around the money was "do that thing where we made a shit-ton of money. Yeah. Like, don't change a thing. Except make it longer."The short version is that the Hobbit is actually a kid story. Whimsical. LotR ain't (even if it actually has a happier ending, sort of). So Jackson rightly made LotR with this grim fantasy-realism feeling heavily in mind. Great. But I knew in advance he was going to try that shit on the Hobbit -- ruined the moral, the plot, the tone, the characters even.