Lord of the Rings fans around the world of Middle Earth sang tedious songs of delight as it was announced that Sir Ian McKellen is to reprise his role as Gandalf in the two forthcoming Hobbit movies.
The films - to be made back-to-back in New Zealand - will be directed by Mexican Guillermo del Toro and are scheduled to be released in 2010 and 2011, reckoned in the years of men.
Whilst the first film will follow Tolkien’s storyline from The Hobbit, the second is reported to feature an original plot set in the 60 years between the events of The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. Provisionally entitled ‘Bilbo – The Wilderness Years’, it is likely to focus on how a young, innocent hobbit who found fame and fortune too early in life spiralled down into a tragic, pipeweed-fuelled personal hell, spending vast sums of money on call-elves and dragon-racing - before finally finding redemption by saving his village from evil property-speculating dwarves bent on driving a toll-road through the shire, or possibly undead trolls illegally prospecting for sheep droppings.
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