Entertainment Weekly has the first official image of the perfectly cast Martin Freeman (The Office, Sherlock) as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit movies. In related news, I just let out a truly humiliating and remarkably girlish squeal of excitement.
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- “You’ve gotta be fuckin’ kidding me, Verizon! And Bombur, don’t you act all innocent over there. How one fatass dwarf can send this many texts a month, I will never fucking know.”
If you follow that link, you’ll see they also have one of Gandalf, in which he looks exactly like he looked in The Lord of the Rings, and one of Jackson in Bag End’s kitchen with Freeman, which looks exactly like what you’d expect a picture to look if you were to take it of Freeman and Jackson in close proximity to a kitchen table. In other words, too boring for me to bother posting. In even more other words, holy shit, this Hobbit movie might actually come out at some point.
What kind of awesome, godlike Brit gets to play Arthur Dent, Bilbo and Watson in their lifetime? Not to defame the office or anything, but damn, dude has had an awesome career just on those roles alone.
That Bag End looks rather too fancy to me. Maybe *after* Bilbo got part of Smaug’s treasure he cherried it up to look like that, but not before.
I always imagined Bag End as pretty fancy. Hobbit holes are supposed to be comfy.
Not *that* fancy, I’d think, not until the Sackville-Bagginses got ahold of it.
I still want to see the actor who played Gareth play Gollum.