[Protoclown]

Frankly at this point I'm kind of glad they split it. Because for one thing, I LOVE the anticipation. I love speculating on what's going to happen and imagining how things might turn out in my head. That's why a part of me will be slightly sad when Return of the King is finally out, because I enjoy having something like that to look foward to.

Secondly, the "end" of the movie is so beautifully put together, with the way things close out at the end of part one and then flow into the credits with the amazingly fitting music, I simply cannot imagine it continuing straight onward into part two without that break in between parts. The scenes that you see shortly before the credits roll really wouldn't have the same emotional weight if they were somewhere in the middle of a longer film.

Artisitically, I think he made a good choice. And I say that without even having seen part two.