Actor Matthew Goode, known as Ozymandias in Watchmen, has let slip that he auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit!

But just before we met, he’d auditioned for the role of Bilbo Baggins in Guillermo del Toro’s two-part film of The Hobbit. As he is the first to admit, he’s not an obvious [...]

The tabloid The Sun has informed recently that actor Tobey Maguire (Spiderman) is rumored to play the Bilbo Baggins role in The Hobbit. The rumours have been doing the rounds for about 1 month, indicating that both producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo Del Toro have been chasing Maguire:
Everyone is over the moon. Tobey is [...]

In a new interview with iFMagazine, the legendary actor Sir Ian McKellen has confirmed his involvement with The Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, indicating:

I have been promised I’m in it.

This happened 12 hours from eating dinner with The Hobbit director Guillermo Del Toro. He also mentioned that it’s possible that he will reprise [...]

From Aintitcool:
This is a news item I’d love to proclaim with all-out certainty, but my tried and trusted source(s) aren’t sure if this is a total lock, or whether it’s just someone they’re seriously interested in. Either way, producers of THE HOBBIT have begun looking at casting for the dwarves (dwarfs?), and one name has [...]

Del Toro confirmed, in an interview with BBC Radio 5, that Hugo Weaving will reprise the role of Elrond in the upcoming Hobbit films. Also he confirms that Andy Serkis will reprise Gollum and Ian McKellen will reprise Gandalf.
Thanks EW!

A few days ago in an interview with iFMagazine, Ian McKellen (Gandalf) talks about The Hobbit and he say
“I’m having supper with [director] Guillermo del Toro this evening, so you’re asking me twelve hours too early.”.
Also he already confirm that he will be in The Hobbit.

In a live chat, Guillermo Del Toro talked about the upcoming Hobbit movie:
Q:Universal announced a pretty busy slate for you after “The Hobbit.” Will we see a Hellboy 3?
A:If its up to me- yes!! But it is a corporate decision and regimes change very rapidly at these studios.
Q:There any professionals who worked with you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]