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Article uses "the trilogy" without identifying LotR trilogy or Hobbit trilogy[edit]

There are several points where the article just uses "the trilogy" instead of specifically identifying which trilogy is meant. I presume much of the text was written when the first Hobbit film had yet to be released, so that "the trilogy" was understood to be the LotR trilogy. Now that the Hobbit films are also a trilogy, those references need changed.

Example: from the Development with del Toro section: For his part, Jackson had kept the Rivendell scale model and the Bag End set (which he has used as a guest house) from the trilogy.98.162.209.39 (talk) 19:51, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

'voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch'[edit]

Surely with all the evidence of motion capture work describing Cumberbatch as voicing Smaug is unjust, untrue, and crude. Frogkermit (talk) 15:54, 22 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

broken sentence or bad punctuation?[edit]

In the first paragraph describing the directorial handoff, there's the line 'and offered to help as second unit director. del Toro planned on shooting the film in the'. Either the . after director is wrong, or del Toro should be capitalized as a new line? I'm not familiar enough with the context there to make the decision SeanBrockest (talk) 03:42, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The Lord of the Rings film series[edit]

As I had originally stated at the Talk:The Lord of the Rings (film series) article back in February 2022 (and have since revisited there), it make zero sense as to why there are 2 articles separating The Hobbit movies (which are prequels to The Lord of the Rings) from the rest of the films. I have added a film table to the LOTR film series article which illustrates the initial formatting that can/will help that article. It is especially notable given the fact that there are now 2 additional LOTR movies that are upcoming.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 07:59, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]