The Hobbit

The Hobbit was a better movie than any other fantasy or sci-fi movie I've seen lately. The critics were too hard on it by far, for instance by taking issue with the meager source material, Tolkien's thin book, being used as the basis for not one, but three movies (two are yet to come). I take the opposite view, that the three Lord of the Rings movies were too fast-paced. Each of Tolkien's LOTR books should have formed the basis of three separate movies, for a total of nine instead of the three--a strategic blunder that I am sure is regretted now that the producers realize how much money can be made through the Tolkien franchise. Tolkien was a great writer, and his works lend themselves well to the medium of film. How about another ten films based upon The Silmarillion?