Guillermo del Toro to direct `The Hobbit' movies

Guillermo del Toro is directing "The Hobbit" and its sequel, New Line Cinema announced Thursday.

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Hard 'Hobbit' to Break: Jackson's In

Bilbo lives!

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Scientists: Hobbit Wasn't a Modern Human

Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.

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'Hobbit' Species Discovery Challenged

The surprising discovery of bones heralded as a new, hobbit-like human species may turn out to have simply been the remains of a human suffering from a genetic illness that causes the body and brain to shrink, according to researchers challenging the original report.

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Who doesn't love a good casting rumor? The whisper we keep hearing in recent days is that the name of the lead star in Guillermo del Toro's "The Hobbit" will be announced next week at Comic-Con International.

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Ancient Madagascan hippos have shed light on the origins of the small brain of the 1-metre-tall human, known as the 'hobbit'.

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Half-size humans whose remains were found on the remote Indonesian island of Flores in 2003 have been confirmed to be a new species, and not modern pygmies whose brains had shrivelled with disease.

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Living on a remote island could have caused the brains of a race of "hobbits", which lived at the same time as modern humans, to shrink, according to a new study.

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The extinct hominids commonly known as hobbits may have been small of body and brain, but their feet were exceptionally long, and they were flat.

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Scientists have found more evidence that the Indonesian "Hobbit" skeletons belong to a new species of human - and not modern pygmies.

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Who were these Hobbits?

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A woman in Qatar snapped a photo of a creature in a parking lot whom many witnesses also claim to have seen. Could it be a living relative of the Hobbit fossils found recently?

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Is that you, Bilbo?

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Hobbit brains supported creative and innovative thinking just like humans today.

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The setting was a hidden island filled with pint-size men who feasted on pygmy elephants and battled dragons. The story of paleontology's "Hobbits," the extinct human species called Homo floresiensis, packs plenty of drama.

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An analysis of an 18,000-year-old fossil, described as the remains of a diminutive humanlike creature, proves that genuine cave-dwelling "hobbits" once flourished in southeast Asia, according to a US anthropologist who conducted X-ray studies of a skull.

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University of Minnesota anthropology professor Kieran McNulty (along with colleague Karen Baab of Stony Brook University in New York) has made an important contribution toward solving one of the greatest paleoanthropological mysteries in recent history -- that fossilized skeleton …

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Looking forward to such an exhibition!

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The son of author JRR Tolkien is making a last-ditch attempt to stop Hollywood from filming two movies based on The Hobbit, it has been reported.

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Frodo Baggins For President

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne, In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.

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And you thought Frodo had it hard. In what is shaping up to be a battle of Tolkienian proportions, the tiny remains from Flores, Indonesia--paleoanthropology's hobbit--have once again come under attack.

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This interview was conducted in Paris where I talked with Alan Lee about his live long assocation with Tolkien's works, the upcoming Hobbit movie, his involvement with The Lord of the Rings movies.

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The Queen of Hobbits, a very rare 1937 first issue of the first edition of J.R.R.

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A 1937 first edition of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit has been sold at auction to an anonymous bidder for £60,000 - twice what it was expected to reach.

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A group of Australian scientists has questioned the discovery of what was thought to be the fossils of a new species of human being.

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Guillermo Del Toro, the director of Blade II, the Hellboy films, Pan's Labyrinth, and the upcoming Hobbit films, discusses the possibility of coming back to Marvel again for a Dr. Strange film.

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A signed first impression of the Hobbit and the last known photograph by Tolkien will be sold at Bonhams Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs sale in New Bond Street on 18th March 2008.

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Now that everything is settled with Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema and The Hobbit is moving forward, details are slowly (but surely) starting to come together.

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The settlement of Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's suit with New Line paves the way for MGM to start work on two prequels

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