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Horray!
The Hobbit is going to be made into a movie–two movies, actually–by Peter Jackson. Why they need two movies to tell the story, I don’t know. Hopefully Ian Holm and Ian McKellen will reprise their roles as Bilbo and Gandalf.
UPDATE: Ross Douthat is underwhelmed. He also points to the fact that one of the movies will be based on The Hobbit, the other will be a kind of bridge between The Hobbit and LOTR. This strikes me as a terrible idea. As Douthat notes, there probably isn’t enough of a movie plot there among Tolkien’s notes and appendices and such for this extra prequel, and so presumably screenwriters will have to make some additions to the “Tolkien universe.” What is this, Star Wars? Hopefully the Tolkien estate will be vigilant enough that things don’t get too out of hand.
