{"id":1256,"date":"2010-11-16T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/11\/good-hobbits-are-hard-to-find--filming-the-hobbit.html"},"modified":"2010-11-16T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:57:52","slug":"good-hobbits-are-hard-to-find-filming-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/11\/good-hobbits-are-hard-to-find-filming-the-hobbit.html","title":{"rendered":"Good Hobbits are Hard to Find&#8212; Filming &#8216;The Hobbit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/hobbit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"210\" alt=\"hobbit.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/11\/hobbit-thumb-400x210-19279.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am happy to report that things have finally firmed up when it comes to filming the Hobbit (in two parts and in glorious 3-D).&nbsp;&nbsp; The filming itself will begin in Feb. 2011 with the first film out in November 2012, and the second one thereafter.&nbsp; The casting is also complete and includes&nbsp; Martin Freeman as Bilbo (the same actor who is currently playing Watson in the BBC TV show about Sherlock).&nbsp;&nbsp; Ian McKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf, and we will also get more of Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness Peter Jackson will be fully in charge.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since there will be two films, we may count on the second one filling in gaps between what we read in&nbsp;The Hobbit, and the beginning of the Lord of the Rings sagas, so it would appear that some of Tolkien&#8217;s other less well known stories and&nbsp;fragments&nbsp; (could we have Tom Bombadil please).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the conclusion of the&nbsp;Harry Potter adventures due next summer,&nbsp;&nbsp; fantasy buffs will at least have the Hobbit to look forward to.&nbsp; Meanwhile we are holding our breath to see how good The Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to report that things have finally firmed up when it comes to filming the Hobbit (in two parts and in glorious 3-D).&nbsp;&nbsp; The filming itself will begin in Feb. 2011 with the first film out in November 2012, and the second one thereafter.&nbsp; The casting is also complete and includes&nbsp; Martin Freeman&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Good Hobbits are Hard to Find- Filming &#039;The Hobbit&#039; - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/11\/good-hobbits-are-hard-to-find-filming-the-hobbit.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Good Hobbits are Hard to Find- Filming &#039;The Hobbit&#039; 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