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TransitJohn

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7. It's just barely long enough with Jackson's rights to LoTR's appendices

Reply to Vashta Nerada (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 22, 2013, 01:41 AM

Nov 2013

which is where the extra non-Hobbit material is coming from. 2 would have been better with the appendices' extras (Radagast, etc.), but the studio wanted a 3rd. It's a cash grab.

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