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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]