Let joy reign supreme in Middle Earth and online role-playing communities everywhere: New Line and Peter Jackson announced today that they have resolved their differences and that Jackson will executive produce not one but two movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit". If all goes according to plans, the first film will be in theaters sometime in 2010. I'm guessing the fanboys have already set up tents outside the box office.
More info to be found at the just-sprouted official "Hobbit blog." I'm glad for the closure, but the phrase "get a life" keeps popping into my head.
Still: Who to play Smaug? I nominate Amy Winehouse. And while we're at it, when will someone finally make a movie of the Harvard Lampoon's deathless 1969 paperback parody, "Bored of the Rings"?
