Lee Pace as King Thranduil

Yeah, that one came in about a week ago. I'd like to take credit for calling it "Lucius Malfoy on disco night," but unfortunately one of my friends did it first.

I'm taking credit for calling it "Legolas at a rave".

How about "the cover of an Edgar Winter album"?

I was thinking more Jackie Rogers Jr.

You remind me of the hobbit
What hobbit? Hobbit with the power
What power? Power of the ring
Who do? You do
Do what? Remind me of the hobbit

Fun fact: David Bowie was briefly considered for Elrond.

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Sylvester McCoy looks great as Radagast the Brown!

Looks like he stole Stan Sitwell's eyebrows.

That's McCoy?

When I saw the picture I thought it was one of the dwarves!

Yeah, it's him.

Tor

The picture is cropping up all over the place now.

That's not the look I was expecting for Radagast the Brown, but I guess it sort of suits him... he's the Istari who went "natural."

I wonder if Alatar and Pallando, the Blue Wizards, will make an appearance.

Never pictured Radagast that homely but the look is interesting. Looking forward to his scenes.

Are you kidding? The way they're stretching out these movies, I wouldn't be surprised if each one had their own film centered around them.

I'm sure a five-part "Wizards" series is being cooked up right now!

Well "The History of Middle Earth" is over 5,000 pages long. There's enough material out there that Peter Jackson's great great great great grandkids could be pumping out movies like a hundred years from now.

If the Tolkien estate were to ever sell the film rights to any of that, then sure.

HOME is a collection of Tolkien's notes and early drafts with commentary by Christopher Tolkien. I don't see much market for a film version of Lord of the Rings where Aragorn is replaced by a hobbit named Trotter, and hte story cuts off before the end because Tolkien decided to rewrite the whole thing.

New Trailer:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thehobbit/

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Could have done with the "You've got to be joking " scene at the end, but looks good otherwise.

Eh, it's right up there with the whole "tossing a dwarf" stuff from the first films. They are always the "comic" relief.

Looks great to me, though for some reason I am way less excited to see it than I was for Lord of the Rings. Maybe I just don't think they can recapture that magic again. We'll see, I suppose.

if you go to thehobbit.com, you can "choose your own ending" to the trailer.

http://www.thehobbit.com/index.html#...se-your-moment

Looks terrific, the tone seems right and though I'm still not sold on Freeman I'll reserve judgement. A hint of Smaug would've been nice.