John Howe & Earthsea

I never realized!

Hobbity News

Evidently Elijah Wood alleges in an interview that Hobbit trailer will likely appear before Tintin in US theatres in late December. If that’s the case, I swear I will pay some of my non-existent money to see the film just for that.

Smaug will evidently be “physicalized” via the same process as Gollum, so that the actors movements are used in rendering the character. (!)

Ian McKellan’s lovely blog entry, which includes talk of a town in New Zealand that is very Shakespeare-oriented. I love his comment about Regan.

[I owe myself a rant/treatise on the “Hobbit” film over winter break, because I’m anticipating it with both delight and trepidation.]