One precious guide to rule them all

Updated December 26 2012 - 12:13pm, first published 11:51am
Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins.
Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins.
Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen as Gandalf in <i> The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</i>.
Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen as Gandalf in <i> The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</i>.
A screen shot from <i>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</i>.
A screen shot from <i>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</i>.

Everybody likes things that come in threes. Neapolitan ice-cream combines vanilla, strawberry and chocolate; those three-in-one cheeses are always a hit at parties; and film trilogies – audiences eat them up as fast as the Hollywood studios can dish them out.

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