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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 5033238" data-attributes="member: 5868">I can see a couple of break points, but really none of them provide a "complete story".- You can break before Mirkwood, either just before of just after the interlude with Beorn (or omit Beorn altogether, as they did in the animated version).  But this is fairly early in the story.- Break just as the dwarves get captured and dragged into the elven caves (closing shot ... Bilbo outside, invisible, as the dwarves get marched away).- Break as they escape the elves (Barrels out of Bond) ... so you know they get away, but don't know if the escape is successful ... closing shot is low-riding barrels sailing away down the river, open the next film with Bilbo pulling the dwarves from the water.- Break when Bilbo splits from the dwarves -- but to do this, you have to add a whole lot to the end of the movie, otherwise the whole film is the Battle of the Five Armies and the journey home -- I don't see how you fill two hours with those topics.  It's like splitting a five act play with four acts in the first half and one in the second.Honestly, I'd vote for compressing a bit and making it one film -- save non-canon transition stuff, or secondary source material for a second movie.</blockquote>