LotR and Hobbit - one series or two?
In Wikipedia, it is stated that The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are two different film series.
However, the film series itself is described as "a collection of related films in succession that share the same fictional universe, or are marketed as a series".
But as everybody knows, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit share the same universe. So, from my point of view, it will be more correct to refer to them as one big series, divided into two smaller ones.
Is this a correct assumption?
(I'm not a big fan of LotR movies itself. My interest is about film series (aka film franchises) in general. The logical system of how they divided/subdivided.)
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Either interpretation could be correct.
But since you can watch either group of films without the other it wouldn't be really correct to call all 6 films one series....at least in my opinion.
To my mind...there are two series of films LOTR & TH which happen to share a universe.
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Is The Hobbit one or two movies?
The Hobbit is a series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. The three films are The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). The films are based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R.Should I watch The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings first?
If you want to watch Jackson's Middle Earth movie in the order in which the events take place, you just have to flip the two trilogies so all The Hobbit movies go first. (And if you wanted to include The Rings of Power, you would watch that before any of the movies.)Is The Hobbit one book or a series?
\u201cThe Hobbit\u201d isn't a book series. Instead, it's a single 293-page tome by J.R.R. Tolkien, who's also famous for penning \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d (LOTR) trilogy. If you're looking for more books about hobbits, the Middle-Earth Blog counts \u201cThe Adventures of Tom Bombadil\u201d as another \u201cHobbit\u201d book.Do The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings go together?
Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a prequel to his Lord of the Rings trilogy, which most people rushing to The Hobbit will have already seen. In the new film there are many nods or foreshadowing to adventures or characters seen in LOTR, and connections to be made.TH/LOTR || BETTER THAN ONE [Collab With StridingArcher]
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Answer 2
Ultimately this seems to come down to the definition of "series".
It's two distinct film trilogies - each with their own story arcs and sets of characters - within one larger franchise.
Answer 3
They are the same as both occur during Tolkien's "Third Age", and the Lord Of The Rings is a continuation of the story of the Ring, from finding it during the Hobbit, to ending in the LOTR. You can also look at it as seperate because of the limited time of Bilbo's character during LOTR. But in essence, I would say it can be considered 1 series, kind of like the Star Wars series!
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