Who would make the better Hobbit? Rumors for Bilbo casting have incldued Daniel Radcliffe, David Tennant, Tobey Maguire, and James MacEvoy. Each actor already belongs to a franchise: Dr. Who, Spider Man, Harry Potter, or Narnia’s Mr. Tumnus?

To me, Jackson is like a child who had made so many cinematic mud pies they can’t help turning out a perfect chocolate glace bombe according to recipe, because after all that chaos it’s simply diverting to follow the recipe of auteurial and directorial filmmaking after so many years of unbridled slasher pics. And Jackson has his assistant chefs to bat cleanup when the mixing and stirring gets to be out of hand.

LOTR ends with Galadriel or someone saying that the time of the elves, of Sauron, is ended. There is a change, they can feel it in the water, taste it in the air. Well, if the war with Sauron and the battle for Middle Earth is so nigh. why don’t the Lords of Valinor just [...]