Today MTV Movies Blog reports that Elijah Wood wants to join in The Hobbit.

“The secondary film would bridge the gap between ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ chronologically,” Wood said, “so conceivably, it could be possible.”

Since the films are still being written, “it’s a ways away” before he would know, Wood said, but the trick is to have Frodo’s appearance not seem like an anachronism, since he wasn’t a part of “The Hobbit” adventure.

“That’s the thing,” Wood said. “I would imagine that if he does exist, it’ll make some sort of sense. Otherwise, I don’t think they would do it. I certainly wouldn’t want to do it. I don’t want to have a whole character piece that doesn’t really exist that they’re cobbling together.”

But he has faith in the filmmakers “in whatever they’re going to do in terms of bringing in any familiar characters back, just knowing their sense of upholding integrity.”

To MTV, it seems like the only logical thing would be to introduce Frodo at the very end. Once Bilbo has returned from his adventure, with all his riches, he becomes the most able relative in Frodo’s family to adopt him after his parents Drogo and Primula die in a boating accident on the Brandywine River. Wood agreed.

“Yeah, potentially,” he said. “There’s a lot we know historically about the characters where that would make sense. And personally, if I was involved, it would be to come on for a tiny little piece and have that be that.”

Who is Bilbo? What is his character like? Guillermo Del Toro has some interesting thoughts on his ideas about Bilbo:

Bilbo is a good-hearted man, and the honesty of Bilbo is in direct contrast to the greed of Smaug, which looms large in the entire narrative, but also in the newly acquired greed and pride of Thorin, who becomes intoxicated with power and gold.

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Guillermo Del Toro speaks about Smaug, approaching actors, and other details about the Hobbit in an interview with MTV.

MTV: Do you have the picture yet of the Smaug you want to create?

Del Toro: I discussed the Smaug appearance with great detail with [Tolkien illustrators] John Howe and Alan Lee, and there’s some illustrations that John did out of that meeting in London that approximate Smaug. I cannot say much more. He is becoming clearer and clearer.

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In an interview with MTV News, Guillermo Del Toro refused to fractionalize Tolkiens book into component parts.

“We don’t even call it the bridge movie, we just call it ‘The Movie.’ And this is great. When we found what reverberated, and we found it in one of our virtual meetings - we understood. It’s a movie.”

It will be just like The Lord of The Ring, three separate volumes intented in a single, large one.

The division made with The Hobbit is due to solve the narrating issues of the second episode.

“We all agree that if we do our job right, it should all feel like a continuous journey. That’s what we’re striving for,” Del Toro said. “You should see a movie that’s five pictures long. If we do our job right, you put in ‘The Hobbit’ and you wind up watching the entire Pentology!”

What a long day it would be!, “But it’s a good day!” Del Toro laughed. About the end of the first episode, will it follow the text accurately?

“We are finding out,” Guillermo said. “I think Smaug dies in the first movie. So draw your own conclusions.”

Do you think Guillermo Del Toro has it all planned?

Guillermo del Toro recently appeared at the Director’s Guild of America in midtown Manhattan as part of The New Yorker Festival series of talks. During the conversation with New Yorker staff writer Daniel Zalewski, del Toro discussed where exactly his mind was in Middle Earth.

“I find you have to discipline yourself to write in the morning, and then watch and read in the afternoons stuff that seems relevant, even in a tangential way. For example, reading or watching World War I documentaries or books that I think inform ‘The Hobbit’ strangely enough, because I believe it is a book born out of Tolkien’s generation’s experience with World War I and the disappointment of being in that field and seeing all those values kind of collapse. I think it’s a turning point that you need to familiarize yourself with.I’m Starting.Peter Jackson is such.

He has lots of thoughts about this New version of the Hobbit coming in 2011!

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Guillermo del Toro recently spoke about The Hobbit in The Directors Guild of America. Also he talked about the dragon Smaug.

“All my life I’ve been fascinated by dragons. I was born under the Chinese sign of The Dragon. All my life I’m collecting dragons. It’s such a powerful symbol, and in the context of ‘The Hobbit’ it is used to cast its shadow through the entire narrative. Essentially, Smaug represents so many things: greed, pride… he’s ‘the Magnificent,’ after all. The way his shadow is cast in the narrative you cannot then show it and have it be one thing, he has to be the embodiment of all those things. He’s one of the few dragons that will have enormous scenes with lines. He has some of the most beautiful dialogues in those scenes! The design, I’m pretty sure that will be the last design we will sign off on, and the first design we have attempted. It is certainly a matter of turning every stone before figuring out what he looks like, because what he looks like will tell you what he is.”

He is really excited about the movie and hope to see him soon in the shooting

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In an interview with Empire magazine, Christopher Lee said he was ready to return to the scenarios if he gets a call from the producers of the Hobbit.

“Somewhere, somehow, and it was never actually explained, Saruman turns and it’s probably the Palantír (the wizard’s crystal ball thingy) that makes Saruman realise that if Sauron can do this, why can’t I do it and Saruman wants to become The Lord Of The Rings himself. I’d be interested in seeing how that transition from good to evil occurred and, yes, of course I would return to the role if I was asked.”

Although Saruman doesn’t feature at the Hobbit, he can play lots of scene at The Hobbit 2 just as explained.

Composer Howard Shore, who composed The Lord of the Ring’s soundtrack, has confirmed in a recent interview to be working in The Hobbit’s music. You can read the full interview below

Sohaib: (speaking about the attendance at the celebratory concert) … I know a lot of the attendee’s are huge fans of Lord of The Rings films and I have to ask a couple of questions related to those films. I feel, to me, they are the seminal works in film over the last 35 to 40 years. And I think you’re score is as a critical as important as the actors and directors in that piece. To me it is one of the premiere pieces of modern music. Looking back at the film itself and your work on the Lord of the Rings is there a particular piece your most proud of, and is there a particular piece that you most personally relate to?

Howard Shore: Its such a vast epic story, that I always relate it to the very small intimate story of The Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings really is this relationship of Frodo and Sam, and it’s at the centre of it, and I’m very keen on making sure that that was always close to my writing and close to my heart.

Sohaib: Hmm, as that story was to all of us. One last question before we go Howard, I have to ask you – You brought up the Hobbit. The new Hobbit films are obviously on their way in the next couple of years – are you going to be involved with this project, and if so, are you already started thinking about ideas along those lines. Will we see similar themes carried over from the original trilogy to the new films?

Howard: Yes I am starting to work on the Hobbit. A lot of the group is coming back together to work on it. It’s really a wondrous occasion. It’s fantastic guide for me to be able to go back to Middle earth and create more music , ‘cause these films, the films, are placed before Fellowship of the Ring, so I have to go back into Middle earth a little earlier and pick up my writing, and write a piece that would grow and take you right into Fellowship of the Ring.

Sohaib: Well Howard, it’s a great honour. A couple of years ago I had the great pleasure of driving all the way from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh for the first time ever to actually see you conduct the symphony out there – The Lord of the Rings Symphony – and you probably don’t recall, you ‘ve met thousands of people throughout the world – but I remember meeting you out on the street Hine Centre there. Again its a real honour, and I speak personally as a fan, not only of your work on this film, but the other film. I want to thank you for all you’ve contributed to these films and the projects that you do, any projects you are going to be working on, I know they are going to be outstanding. Good luck on this momentous occasion this weekend, and I know its going to be incredible and Im definitely, definitely looking forward to it. Thanks for taking the time.

Howard: Thank-you.

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Actor Andy Serkis talks about reprising his role as Gollum in The Hobbit.

It’s just been informed that a judge has barred the estate of “Lord of the Rings” author J.R.R. Tolkien from seeking punitive damages against the studio that brought the trilogy to the big screen. Tolkien’s heirs claim New Line Cinema has failed to pay any royalties from the estimated $6 billion they say the movie has grossed worldwide. The lawsuit is seeking more than $150 million in compensatory damages based on breach of contract, fraud and other claims. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones also ruled this week that the estate and Tolkien heirs have established a legal basis for the fraud claim against New Line.

As part of that allegation, the lawsuit claims New Line sent millions of dollars to Time Warner Inc.’s AOL, improperly claiming they were for advertising expenses. The lawsuit also claims the studio built production offices and facilities in New Zealand and listed them as expenses for the “Lord of the Rings” films, although the heirs claim they are now being used for other New Line projects. New Line’s attorneys successfully argued that Tolkien’s heirs had to demonstrate a “public wrong” under New York law - which governs the contracts - to claim punitive damages if they win at trial. Jones ruled that the heirs’ grievance “is clearly seeking to vindicate private wrongs.”

Tolkien signed agreements in 1969 with United Artists governing the movie rights to the “Lord of the Rings” books as well as “The Hobbit.” After the author’s death, his heirs created The Tolkien Trust, a British charity. The charity’s trustees, which include Tolkien’s heirs, joined publisher HarperCollins to sue the studio in February. Besides damages, the lawsuit seeks a court order that would terminate New Line’s rights to make a two-film prequel based on “The Hobbit.”

Attorneys for New Line and The Tolkien Trust did not immediately return calls seeking comment on Thursday. New Line now has 10 days to answer the lawsuit. A trial has been scheduled for October 2009. The studio was absorbed into Warner Bros. Entertainment in February.

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