Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend and there were plenty of film-related sketches in her honour. Lawrence addressed her Best Actress Academy Award competitors in her opening monologue, participated in a Hunger Games press conference alongside a cretinous Peeta, and played a too-mean waitress at retro diner Johnny Two Tones ("You're gonna die in your bathroom... no one will miss you," whispers the actress to a pair of hapless customers). But the funniest sketch of the night featured Lawrence as a somewhat less serene version of The Hobbit's ethereal queen elf Galadriel (played by Cate Blanchett in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings/Hobbit franchise).

The sketch took aim at Jackson's notoriously long LOTR and Hobbit films and their numerous sequels. Taking the shape of a movie trailer, the bit claimed that Jackson had decided to split his final two films into 18 separate sequels with titles like The Hobbit 2: Journey to the Beginning of the Walk to Smaug's Lair, The Hobbit 8: The Elf Queen Tries To Pick An Outfit, The Hobbit 11: Trying To Split A Complicated Dinner Bill, and The Hobbit 14: The New Batch. There's also my personal favourite, The Hobbit 4: Apple Maps: An Unexpected Detour. That one hits close to home.

Lawrence, as the Elf Queen, gets a whole film dedicated to her daily white dress selection process and is funny and stingy in The Hobbit 11 as she haggles over a dinner bill with some dwarves. "I didn't order an appetizer," she points out after one of her dining companions suggest that they all split the bill evenly. Oh, and if you're wondering if all 18 movies can maintain a consistent level of storytelling quality, the trailer includes pull quotes from reviews by esteemed critics like Roger Ebert: "At one point, the wind blew Gandalf's hat off and they chased it for two entire movies," he raves. Sounds like 3.5 stars to me.