If I'm remembering the book correctly (a dicey assumption given how long it's been), the original plot needs only about 20-30 minutes more movie time to finish! I'm beginning to think they're going about making a trilogy of that relatively small book the wrong way. If they'd skipped the scene with Frodo at the beginning, and the Gandalf-vs-Sauron thing, and possibly Radagast, they'd have had the whole story in two movies. IIRC there's very little mention of Dol Guldur or Sauron/Necromancer in the book, and neither of them had anything to do with the quest to retake Erebor.
I'm beginning to suspect some serious mistakes were made...
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Date: 2013-12-19 08:31 pm (UTC)I'm beginning to suspect some serious mistakes were made...