The Spot News: Elijah Wood and The Hobbit
Source Bleeding Cool
Consider this a SPOILER, even for folks who have read The Hobbit, and proceed with all due caution.
It seems more and more that the claims of Elijah Wood having a role in The Hobbit movies are absolutely true. Worried that he’ll just be shoehorned in? Well, Peter Jackson has found a way to include the character that I think is actually quite sweet. It isn’t a genius idea, however, nor even a new one, and I’m not sure the film needs it. On the other hand, it probably won’t hurt it at all.
According to the Middle Earth monomaniacs at The One Ring, Frodo Baggins is going to appear in a framing scene or sequence that sees him learning the tale of The Hobbit from a book:
As readers of The Hobbit know, the tale of The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit or There and Back Again are contained in the fictional Red Book of Westmarch. In Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, the books are shown on screen and written by Bilbo and Frodo and handed off to Sam Gamges. (Not explained on film are Sam’s progeny later having the book and being Wardens of Westmarch – hence the books title).
This doesn’t necessarily explain how Galadriel and Legolas, for example, will be making their appearances. Maybe Frodo is reading to them. Or being read to by them. Or maybe he skips around and reads bits of other things.
And it opens the film up to cameo appearances from several over Rings favourites too.
I hope Jackson isn’t too disappointed his secret is out in the open.
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