The cast for the “The Hobbit” movie has been chosen. See the cast at: http://bit.ly/tVJuXG.
Carl STRONGLY advises reading the book before seeing the movie, which is still a long, long way from release. The reason for this is that “The Lord of the Rings” had several changes from Tolken’s novels, and in the process lost at least three key points (Part 1 and Part II. blog posts define two of the points). The third key point is the Dark Forest of the first volume, omitted in the movie. Each of us willing to take that journey faces that Dark Forest, and it is just as dangerous to us. In the book, how did they escape? The answer is very powerful.) The film version of Hobbit will probably differ from the novel. Read the novel first.
