The current movie covers all the first book and only a few pages of the 
second.  Go read the second book and you will see how much material the next 
movie has available.

Alan

On Friday 04 January 2002 07:09 am, you wrote:
> Just saw LOTR and it was outstanding.  I was rereading LOTR, and had just
> finished the first book.  The movie covers the whole first book and most of
> the second, although they left out Tom Bombadil and the Barrow-Downs from
> the first book...
>
> I just don't see how they can make 2 more movies before the end when Frodo
> and Sam get to Mordor....