The Hobbit Lead Actor Announcement Coming Soon: Who do you think should play Bilbo Baggins? Who do you think will?

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Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is to collaborate with Guillermo Del Toro on the script of two films based around Tolkien's The Hobbit.

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Sir Ian McKellen has confirmed he will reprise his role as Gandalf in the film remake of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit. "Yes, it's true," he told Empire magazine. "It's not a part that you turn down. I loved playing Gandalf."

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Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican film-maker with a cult following for his fantasy horror movies, is to direct the two prequel films to the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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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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Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct back-to-back installments of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," which is being co-financed by New Line and MGM.

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In second place came Beatle John Lennon, who was murdered in New York in 1980 at the age of 40. He earned $44 million while the creator of Peanuts comic strip, Charles M. Schulz, took the third slot with earnings of $35 million.

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Incest! Murder! Pseudonyms! (The New Tolkien Book)

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No Jackson for The Hobbit...too bad really since he did such a nice job on the LOtR.

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A three-bedroom bungalow where JRR Tolkien used to live has gone on sale with an asking price of £1 million. The writer, who was raised in Birmingham, lived at the address from 1968-1972 during his retirement.

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An unfinished work by JRR Tolkien will be published next spring after being completed by the writer's son.

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Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on "The Children of Hurin," an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned.

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