Unfortunately, Jackson’s follow-up offering from the land of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, in the form of The Hobbit trilogy, did not meet with the same success.
To this day, Peter Jackson’s cinematic take on The Lord of the Rings trilogy of novels is considered one of the greatest adaptations of all time.
Jed Brophy, who played the role of two orcs in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and the dwarf Nori in The Hobbit films, weighed in on how the issue of studio interference ended up sinking the latter franchise.
Much has been written about the drastic reduction in quality that Jackson’s movies suffered from when he set out to adapt Tolkien’s single novel The Hobbit into a bloated, CGI-infested trilogy.