wait, is Born Of Hope a movie or something? and is Hunt For Gollum out already?

Umm...Yes, and yes ! In fact they are both out. I posted a link for Born of Hope on the last page. You can watch it there.

You can watch Hunt For Gollum here:

http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/updates.htm

GB

are they short films?

Yes they're both about an hour or less, Liberty.

they are both fanfilms made from low budgets, but extremely well done and free to the public to watch!

thanks, Eruc!
awesome siggy, by the way!

The Hunt for Gollum is about 45 minutes and Born of Hope is about an hour and 10 minutes long. And their budgets--while certainly low compared to Hollywood budgets--are not that low. They don't look low-budget.

They have very high, professional production values. And they both have a consistent look with Peter Jackson's films. They even both feature some brief relatively high quality CGI characters. Just click the links and enjoy, Liberty.

GB

The casting for Hobbit extras begins next week! *wishes she was a New Zealand resident right now*

And P.S., having a short window of time now: I squeezed in a viewing of Born of Hope one evening this past week: overall, an excellent and poignant film. I found it even more enjoyable than The Hunt for Gollum, as BoH had a fuller fleshed-out storyline. (I'll say more on this later ...)

Bilbo Baggins might be played by... Tobey Macguire?!??!?? WHAT?!??!?!?!?!?

I like Tobey. But I cannot see him as Bilbo.

Source (one bad word warning)

ETA: NEVER MIND!

TORn debunked it. That was fast.

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/12/14/34657-could-bilbo-have-webbed-feet

never jump to conclusions... lol.. usually it's best to wait a little bit first, usually those rumors get debunked fast.

99.9% of the time, I"m good (I have to be to post Narnia news ). But I had two problems with this one. First, the site that posted it is very reliable. Two, he wasn't cast, he was in-talks. So my normal red flags weren't there (aside from who it was they were talking about). This was waaaaaay more reliable than say... Daniel Radcliffe?

Until PJ says "Bilbo will be played by so and so!", I aint believing a thing.

Love Maguire, and I love Radcliffe--but they ain't Bilbo (a young Frodo maybe). But in a Bizarro World where these guys were the only two choices, it would have to the English Dude .

GB

who is Tobey Macguire?

I hope they don't pick Daniel Radcliffe! that would be awful!

Tobey Macguire is the guy that played Spider-Man in the three Spider-Man movies.

he was Spiderman! WHAT? they can't possibly be thinking of using that guy for Bilbo! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
venting, venting, venting.....

okay, I've calmed down a bit. yikes! that guy looks nothing like Bilbo!