Lord of the Rings director will add third film to turn JRR Tolkien adaptation into trilogy, with first set for release in December Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Hobbit will be split into three films, the director and the studios behind the venture said on Monday. Jackson said that given the richness of the story – which is set 60 years before The Lord of the Rings – he decided after wrapping up shooting recently in New Zealand that what was originally planned as two films would now be a trilogy. “I’m delighted that New Line, MGM and Warner Bros are equally enthusiastic about bringing fans this expansive tale across three films,” Jackson said in a statement. “It has been an unexpected journey indeed, and in the words of Professor Tolkien himself, ‘a tale that grew in the telling’,” Jackson said in a statement on his Facebook site. The Hobbit, written by JRR Tolkien, is the prequel to the British author’s epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings, which Jackson made into three Oscar-winning films about 10 years ago

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