A few people have already asked me why we’re taking twice as long to tell essentially the same story. And I don’t really know. We’ve been asking that ourselves. I’m going to have to come up with a better answer.
— Peter Jackson, Newsweek interview, November 2005
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Becuase he knows how to make friggin’ GREAT movies and can’t help himself.
Duration and greatness are not directly related, alas. Let’s hope, though, that you are correct and this three hour monster is as great as he wants it to be.