Assuming the quality of the next two films are around the same as the first film, do you think the Hobbit Trilogy will be viewed as the Star Wars' Prequel trilogy to most people? As in, vastly inferior, tarnished the original series' reputation, etc? Or do you think the Hobbit films will be held in a higher pedestal?
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It's only a prequel in the movie sense. Tolkien wrote the Hobbit long before the LOTR trilogy.