Rotten Tomatoes has an exclusive interview with Guillermo del Toro, where he discusses his approach to directing the upcoming Hobbit movie:
“When Tolkien wrote the book he was not making a prequel … and if there are gaps in the logic of the use or the powers of the ring between the first film and the [...]
ACTOR James McAvoy, reported to be a front runner for the lead in the movie adaptation of The Hobbit, says the speculation was unfounded. The 29-year-old Scottish star dismissed an earlier report in the Daily Express, in which a source...
A few weeks ago a British tabloid suggested that Jack Black, Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy were in the running to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, and being the douchebags they are people fell for it even though Guillermo del Toro said that casting wouldn’t be revealed until next year. Then an even bigger [...]
Thanks to screener Michael from TOR for the heads up.
There was a rumor not too long ago that James McAvoy (Atonement, Penelope) might be the one to play the young Bilbo Baggins in the upcoming epic movie adaptation THE HOBBIT, directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
But Collider got to hear from the man himself flat [...]
You think Harrison Ford being 65 years old, reprising his Indiana Jones role is cool?!
Well, that’s nothing… In fact, it’s puny compared to what Christopher Lee wants to do.
Who’s Christopher Lee? Better yet, what role is he reprising?
He’s the badass old man who played the evil wizard SARUMAN in LOTR Movies.
Empire Online got Lee speaking [...]
Mike Morwood, one of the discoverers of the Flores hobbit, is attempting to locate more dimunitive humans in Australia’s Northern Territory - but are there really hobbits to be found, or is this just a mountain out of a molehill?
Hobbit relative ‘live in NT’
Northern Territory News, 27 May 2008
So what’s the news here?
The archaeologist said [...]
El director y productor ejecutivo, Guillermo del Toro y Peter Jackson respectivamente, de "El Hobbit" sobre las dos películas que llevarán a la gran pantalla la precuela de "El Señor de los Anillos".El calendario definitivo de las dos entregas de "El Hobbit": en lo que queda de año se terminará el guión, en 2009 se realizarán todos los trabajos de pre-producción y no será hasta 2010 cuand
In a court hearing June 6, Christopher Tolkien will try to terminate the rights to ‘The Hobbit.’ The 83 year old son of J.R.R. Tolkien accuses New Line Cinema of ‘accounting chicanery,’ also known as ‘Hollywood accounting.’ He says the studio still owes his family $160 million of the $6 billion it made from the [...]
GUILLERMO DEL TORO, director of the The Hobbit, has spoken to fans about the project, along with its executive producer Peter Jackson - just days before a court hearing could stop the movie being made. Del Toro and Jackson...
In this week’s edition of Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American, there’s a segment entitled Little Brains, Big Brains, about the Indonesian hobbit or homo floresiensis.
Little Brains, Big Brains: Latest Flores Hobbit News
Scientific American, May 21 2008
You can download the podcast or listen to it straight from the site. Kate Wong, the resident anthropology [...]
Executive producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro participated in a live chat session earlier today where they answered previously submitted reader questions regarding their plans for The Hobbit movie and its sequel, currently referred to as Film Two (F2).
Continuando con los reviews de esta semana, ahora le tocó el turno al espectacular Esty (diseñador de los iconos de feed 3D) que hace unos meses se creó un blog de “El Hobbit”, donde ha resumido todas las noticias en cuanto a esta entrega sobre el origen del señor de los anillos, sin duda dará [...]
This is just a reminder informing you that The Hobbit chat with Peter Jackson And Guillermo del Toro will be taking place in a matter of hours.
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I’m gonna get a quick rest but before I do, here’s an invitation to you by Weta… for the hottest event yet this year…
An Unexpected Party
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro invite you to a live internet chat about The Hobbit.
Peter and Guillermo would love to answer your questions and hear your comments about [...]
This seem like a up hill battle for Guillermor del Toro if he does not get all of the old Lord of the Rings cast aboard. But with it seems that it is good to see a lot of the old cast are back. I am sure it will still be just as or even better then what Peter Jackson would do.Viggo Mortensen, Andy Serkis, and Ian McKellan All In 'Hobbit' TalksCinematical, CA - 1 hour agoNo matter how many times Gu
To those of us who actually enjoy The Lord of the Rings Movies, we try to keep a close eye on THE HOBBIT, which will be directed by Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy)
Who’s going to be cast? How will they successfully do the two-films simultaneously? Will I ever win a date with Megan Fox?
Well, [...]
We’ve heard from Ian McKellen, he’s on board. Elijah Wood said he would return if needed, as did Cate Blanchett and Andy Serkis. Among the rest of that cast we haven’t heard from is Liv Tyler, who played elf Arwen in the Lord of the Rings. Would she return to play her character in the [...]
Ha sido anunciado oficialmente, después de cuatro meses de hablar y gastar un tiempo “precioso” ha sido anunciado que Guillermo Del Toro dirigirá El Hobbit. Según la revista Variety, Del Toro se trasladará a Nueva Zelanda para trabajar con Peter Jackson en la producción de la pelicula. Se presupone que tanto Ian McKellen cono el resto del casting repetiran personajes. Originariamente Pe
I’m gonna get a quick rest but before I do, here’s an invitation to you by Weta… for the hottest event yet this year…
An Unexpected Party
Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro invite you to a live internet chat about The Hobbit.
Peter and Guillermo would love to answer your questions and hear your comments about [...]
From TheMovieBlog.comMelissa, age 34 and known to her friends as Fiver, is an avid Lord of the Rings fans and she was more excited than most to find out about the Hobbit Prequels. But then she was more than disappointed that she is unlikely to live to see them completed. She has Lou Gerig’s disease and the average person lives 3-5 years after diagnosis. She has had the disease for a year now.Her husband has put together a petition online to hopefully reach out to NewLine and Peter Jackson (and now DelToro if that helps) to get her a gig as an extra in the film.More herePetition linkAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis/Lou Gerig's disease
Peter Brown, one of the discoverers of the hobbit hominid skeleton from Liang Bua cave in Flores posts a robust -and credible - defence against the charge that the Hobbit underwent dental work. He posts his rebuttal on his website, along with high-resolution photos which you can read here.
The tooth, and nothing but!
La web TheOneRing.net, que fue escriba de las aventuras de Peter Jackson antes y después de terminar su titánica adaptación de The Lord of The Rings, se ha puesto de nuevo en marcha para hacer lo mismo con el periplo que le espera a Guillermo del Toro, que adaptará "The Hobbit", además de una secuela que la unirá con la trilogía y que no estará respaldada por la obra literaria (aunque es posible que coja de aqui y de allá con las docenas de recopilaciones que el hijo de Tolkien ha perpetrado con la obra de su padre).Lo cierto es que encuentro gratuito hacer dos peliculas, pero es evidente que hay tres razones para ello: los DVDs que vendrán, la necesidad de dar toda la información posible al espectador (y si hay que contar la vida de Aragorn con los Elfos, de como Bilbo se va ga
“They can dredge up old cadavers in my closet. I’m not running for president. I’m a f—ing filmmaker!”
-Guillermo Del Toro on the resurfacing of a 2006 interview where he said he was not a fan of heroic fantasy
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Now that it’s official that Del Toro will direct The Hobbit and its sequel, the director said he wants to bring back the original cast from the Lord of the Rings trilogy for his two films.
A review of The Hobbit Trap, a book about the Flores hominid that was released last week which alleges that the Hobbit skeleton shows signs of having gone through dental work.
Hobbit or not, book tests the tooth of the matter
The Age, 27 April 2008
Does the allegation of the Hobbit having gone through dental work sound [...]
Since it was first announced, everyone has been wondering what will become of this supposed Hobbit sequel.For the first time publicly Guillermo del Toro spoke publicly to TheOneRing.net about the planned continuation: "You know, I traveled to New Zealand just a little while ago, and one of the main reasons for going was to sit down and talk about the second film. 'The Hobbit', the book, is really one self-contained film, so for the second movie we sat down and worked it out. When we did this we got really excited because this second film is not a 'tag on', it's not 'filler', it's an integral part of telling the story of those 50 years of history lost in the narrative. There will be certain things that we will see from the first movie but from a different point of view, but it will feel lik
THE HOBBITY el premio al mejor director va para...!Al parecer finalmente se ha decidido la discusión por la dirección de la próxima entrega de ciencia ficción en la edad media "The Hobbit". Y quedó nomás Guillermo del Toro. Con entregas como El Laberinto del Fauno o las dos películas de Hellboy (que una se estrena pronto, ver noticia correspondiente) el director queda ahora a la merced de los fans que discuten si podrá o no hacerle justicia a la edad media como se hizo en las 3 entregas de El Señor de Los anillos.Por ahora Del Toro confirmó que se mudará a Nueva Zelanda (donde Peter Jackson realizó también las otras 3 películas) para realizar la filmación de las dos entregas (si, dos) de The Hobbit. Pasará allí nada menos que 4 años, esperándose el estreno de la primer e
Y yo estoy más que feliz con la noticia.
Del Toro no solo logró un fabuloso Hellboy (y repetirá el plato) y un Laberinto del Fauno realmente inolvidable, si no tiene la sensibilidad para llevar el texto de Tolkien, bastante mas lúdico que el Señor de los Anillos, a la pantalla sin convertirlo en un mamotreto [...]
El cineasta mexicano Guillermo del Toro fue elegido el jueves para dirigir dos películas basadas en el libro "El Hobbit" de J.R.R. Tolkien, para continuar con el éxito de la saga "El Señor de los Anillos." Los planes para realizar una precuela dividida en dos partes de la trilogía de "El Señor de los Anillos," que se basa en la continuación de tres volúmenes de la historia de "El Hobbit" de
"I am indeed blessed to become a part of the filmmaking community that Peter, Fran and their extraordinary team of collaborators have created in New Zealand"49 minutes ago ABC News (121 occurences)by Guillermo del Toro »It's Official: Guillermo del Toro to Direct The Hobbit !
Yesterday afternoon, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh, New Line president Toby Emmerich and Mary Parent announced that del Toro has agreed to direct “The Hobbit” and its sequel, hoping to release them in late 2011 and 2012. Rumours be gone…
Its official! After 4+ months of talking and wasting precious time, it has been announced that Guillermo Del Toro will be directing The Hobbit. We heard last week at the New York Comic Con that we would hear something one way or another, and now we have the good news that he will be lending [...]
After a few months of waiting to find out whether Guillermo Del Toro will be travelling to Middle Earth to take on The Hobbit, we will finally get an answer. Del Toro was on the panel for Hellboy II: The Golden Army at New York’s Comic Con, and he revealed some major info!
From Cinematical:
According to [...]
THE Hobbit, the tiny human fossil found in a cave on an Indonesian island in 2003 and claimed as a new species, was a modern human whose teeth had been worked on by a dentist, possibly in the 1930s, according to a scientist whose new book is set to inflame debate.University of Adelaide professor of biological anthropology and comparative anatomy Maciej Henneberg says in his new book, The Hobbit Trap, that a lower left molar had a filling, a claim that threatens to blow out of the water conjecture by the fossil's describers that the Hobbit is 18,000 years old."What I can see on the ... surface of the (tooth) is incredible," Professor Henneberg writes.University of New England archeologist Mike Morwood, announcing the discovery in October 2004, said the Hobbit was 1.06m tall, weighed about 2
In an off-tangent study of the diminutive bones from Flores, Indonesia, it turns out that the hobbit had flat, clown-like feet which probably limited it’s walking range (other than it’s, say, really short gait).
Flores ‘hobbit’ walked more like a clown than Frodo
New Scientist, 16 April 2008
After Dominic Monaghan’s character on Lost was killed off, he moved back to Los Angeles and tried making a relationship with Evangeline Lilly, who was still filming in Hawaii, work. The distance proved too great and the pair eventually broke up. Now following a series of “intense phone calls and meetings” (re: phone sex and sex), the two may have rekindled their romance. “They never stopped loving each other. She remained in Hawaii for the show, and he moved back to Los Angeles when he was killed off, so the distance took its toll. They decided to take a break, but it was really hard on them both.”. Evangeline, 28, flew from Hawaii to Hollywood to support British-born Dominic at the opening of his photography exhibition on March 13.I can see why they couldn’t remain apart
Until we hear an actual official announcement from New Line / Warner Brothers, anything that Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, or even Ian McKellen says about The Hobbit is unconfirmed. They can talk all they want, but as Guillermo himself says "it's all immaterial until everything is signed and put on paper." With that, on Wednesday the big guns at Entertainment Weekly caught up with Guillermo and, of course, asked him about the latest on The Hobbit. First thing to notice, Guillermo does outright say "I will be involved." Besides that, though, it's the same ol' wait-until-its-ready talk we've heard for a while now. Given the importance of this project, I think its best to leave this update in its original question-and-answer form. Frankly, it's just a brief update with hardly anyth
EL HOBBIT : Aunque aun no està confirmado que Guillermo del Toro la dirija (90 % de probabilidades de que si lo haga) quièn ya firmò contrato con la productora de Peter Jackson es Ian Mckellen, quien se pondrà nuevamente en la piel de Gandalf . Recordemos que la Warner Bros, informò que la pelìcula contarà de dos partes y se filmarà, al igual que El señor de los Anillos , toda junta y de una sola vez .Alejandro Franco para www.theronda.com.ar
Guillermo Del Toro está en conversaciones para dirigir la adaptación cinematográfica de "El Hobbit" de J.R.R. Tolkien, confirmó el viernes a la AP el manager del realizador mexicano."Todavía está en discusión, (pero) sí", dijo Gary Ungar, representante del artista en Los Angeles, absteniéndose de dar más detalles.Preguntado cuándo se haría un anuncio, respondió: "Espero que se resuelva pronto. Todos tienen que estar de acuerdo en todo".Reportes de que Del Toro dirigiría "El Hobbit" surgieron el año pasado tras anunciarse que el director de la trilogía "El Señor de los Anillos", el neozelandés Peter Jackson, fungiría sólo como productor ejecutivo.Para leer más de este articulo haga click aquí.
Este viernes se ha confirmado que Guillermo Del Toro dirigirá la adaptación cinematográfica de "El Hobbit" de J.R.R. Tolkien, de acuerdo a lo dicho por Gary Ungar, representante del artista en Los Angeles, absteniéndose de dar más detalles.Nosotros te damos aquí la información que hemos encontrado sobre esta nueva película de la secuela del Señor de los Anillos.ArgumentoEl filme estará basado en la novela de J.R.R. Tolkien "The hobbit", la antesala literaria a la saga de "El señor de los anillos". En esta historia, un hobbit llamado Bilbo Baggins se une al mago Galndalf y un grupo de enanos con el propósito de reclamar su montaña del temible dragón Smaug.RepartoDado el complicado estado de la producción, se desconoce si los actores originales de la saga de "El señor de los
el actor británico Ian McKellen a confirmado que interpretará al mago Gandalf en la película "El Hobbit"bajo la producción de Peter Jackson. Quien parece que fue la clave para que McKellen aceptara el papel. Aunque aun falta decidir sobre la dirección,el nombre que suena mas fuerte es el de Guillermo del Toro, al parecer Peter Jackson quiere que esta cinta se empieze a rodar en 2009, así que a esperar nomas.
McKellen answered numerous fan questions in an E-Post, two of which pertained specifically to The Hobbit. The short of it is that he will be back and he even in fact mentions Guillermo del Toro as the director, but unfortunately there is no signed deal yet and it's still not close to moving into production.
McKellen answered numerous fan questions in an E-Post, two of which pertained specifically to The Hobbit. The short of it is that he will be back and he even in fact mentions Guillermo del Toro as the director, but unfortunately there is no signed deal yet and it's still not close to moving into production.
Skeletons found in Palau suggest ‘Hobbits’ were just dwarf humansBy Maggie FoxMarch 11, MSNBCWASHINGTON - Tiny skeletons found in the caves of the Pacific islands of Palau undercut the theory that similar remains discovered earlier in Indonesia might be a unique hominid species, researchers reported Monday.The Palau skeletons, which date to between 900 and 2,800 years ago, appear to have belonged to so-called insular dwarfs — modern humans who grew smaller as a result of living on an island, the researchers said.They said their findings, published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, show it is possible the same thing happened on the Indonesian island of Flores, where small skeletons dating back 15,000 to 18,000 years ago have intrigued scientists since they were discovered in 2004.S
Cool Stuff: Environmentally Friendly Hobbit Home Like any smart 20something, I am looking to retire in the next year or so, or at least go far far away to a land where the Drudge Report and Nick Denton have no reach. A loyal Slashfilm reader in Miami named ‘Hot Turtle Sex’ directed me to the following link belonging to a Welsh family of four (two cute kids). Using the architectural technique of “earth sheltering,” they have created a cozy home literally built into the earth that shares a helluva lot of resemblance to a hobbit hole and The Shire in J.R.R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The Dale family claims to have no real knowledge of architecture and says they built the home for 3,000 pounds (about $7,000) over a three month period using, get this, a ̶
This week’s been abuzz with another Hobbit story again, this time saying that the diminutive bones belong to malnourished humans rather than a new species. The paper, written by two Australian...
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Apariencia del Hobbit hallado en AustraliaHace aproximadamente tres años, científicos australianos descubrieron en una cueva los restos fosilizados de lo que podía ser una nueva especie. Tras su recomposición lo bautizaron como «Hobbit» por su parecido con el personaje de El Señor de los anillos y comenzó una larga investigación en la que se valoraba la posibilididad de que este hallazgo se tratase de una nueva especie con una deformidad en el cerebro. Sin embargo, en la última edición de la revista especializada Science, los científicos rechazan la teoría sostenida por los arqueólogos australianos que descubrieron los restos y que los clasificaron como de una nueva y diminuta especie de ser humano: el homo floresiensis.Se estima que el hobbit vivió en la isla indonesa de Fl
Uno de los directores de culto de Cinemanet es Guillermo del toro, citaremos Hellboy solamente para darles una idea de su talento.
Siempre es noticia porque o anda tras los pasos de Frankenstin, o tras Hellboy 2, o algún loco proyecto.
Parece que ahora es muy seria su postulación a darle vida a la historia o precuela [...]
Duncan Graham, a writer based in Surabaya, gives his take on the book The Discovery of the Hobbit by Mike Morwood and Penny van Oosterzee. Another review of the book has been posted on SEAArch...
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Well the Hobbit has a director and it is Peter Jackson. I know this has been going on for a while but I could not see anyone else directing this movie. So looks like the WETA and New Zealand will have something else to be excited about.
Earlier this year, a study by Dean Falk hoped to put to rest the homo floresiensis controversy by comparing casts of the homo floresiensis brain with that of other microcephalic humans. The results...
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I always remembered the US as being big, I put this down to me being 14 the last time I was here but what I hadn’t factored in was that I haven’t actually grown since i was 14.
I was 5′6 then and I’m 5′6 now. I am the shortest person here. I have to climb up onto the bed, I need a stepladder to use the sink and I can swing my legs on most chairs.
I also have hairy toes and a wild tangle of hair. Ladies and gentleman: I am a hobbit.
I may have overdone the lemsip today. It’s hard to know I can’t see the shelf from down here.
20 September 2007 (Newsweek) - Newsweek magazine features an interview with Matthew Tocheri, one of the investigators behind the Hobbit wrist study.
‘Tip of the Iceberg’
A new study of a skeleton of a member of a race of three-foot-tall ‘hobbits’ who lived 12,000 years ago in Indonesia shows that they were a species of human—and that the evolutionary path to Homo sapiens has been tortuous indeed.
by Jessica Bennett
It was an astonishing discovery: the skeletal remains of a new human species that lived for eons on a remote island while man colonized the rest of the planet. Back when it was first discovered in 2003, on the tiny Indonesian island of Flores, the three-foot-tall adult female skeleton was dubbed “the hobbit,” because she—and the 11 other skeletal remains that were found like her—bore more of a resemblance to the Tolkien fantasy characters than to modern humans. The hobbit’s discovery presented evidence that as recently as 12,000 years
The scientists, extortion gives to them the identity of the famous fossil of “hobbit”, found a new index in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, the researchers disputed the surplus if the lucky find were an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human pain of a genetic disorder.Now, a study of the bones in the left wrist of the creature lends the weight to the human theory of ancestor, according to a report/ratio in the question of Friday of the Science of newspaper.The bones of wrist of foot-large creature 3, technically known under the name of floresiensis of Homo, are basically indistinguishable from a monkey African or early hominin-like the wrist and nothing just like that seen in the human modern ones and Neanderthals, according to the team of research undertaken by Matthew W. Tocheri of the national museum Smithsonien of the natural history.That indicates that it is a hominin early and not human modern with a physical disorder, they dispute.
21 September 2007 (ABC News in Science) - Here’s a news piece about the wrist study which sums up the news quite nicely in layman terms. There’s also a dissenting opinion about the study that’s also food for thought.
Wrist gives hobbit theory the flick
Anna Salleh
The hobbit had wrists more like those of non-human apes than those of modern humans, according to researchers who say their findings are more evidence that Homo floresiensis is a new species.
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20 September 2007 (Smithsonian Institution) - A new study on the wrist bones recovered from the homo floresiensis assembly adds extra weight to our Hobbit from Flores being an entirely new species rather than a sick, deformed human. There are a few other stories popping up today so stay tuned for more insights! It’s a really busy day at work, so hopefully I can post them all up by the end of the day.
Homo Floresiensis skull, creative commons image by SBishop
New Research Sheds Light on “Hobbit” Smithsonian-led Study Published in Science
An international team of researchers led by the Smithsonian Institution has completed a new study on Homo floresiensis, commonly referred to as the “hobbit,” a 3-foot-tall, 18,000-year-old hominin skeleton, discovered four years ago on the Indonesian island of Flores. This study offers one of the most striking confirmations of the original interpretation of the hobbit as an island remnant of one of the oldest human migrati
Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist. Since the discovery of the bones in Indonesia in 2003, researchers have wrangled over whether the find was an ancient human ancestor or simply a modern human suffering from a genetic disorder.Now, a study of the bones in the creature's left wrist lends weight to the human ancestor theory, according to a report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.The wrist bones of the 3-foot-tall creature, technically known as Homo floresiensis, are basically indistinguishable from an African ape or early hominin-like wrist and nothing at all like that seen in modern humans and Neanderthals, according to the research team led by Matthew W. Tocheri of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.That indicates that it is an early hominin and not a modern human with a physical disorder, they contend.Indonesia News Blog: http://indosnesos.blogspot.com
You're The Hobbit!
by J.R.R. Tolkien
All you wanted was a nice cup of tea when some haggard crazy old man
came into your life and told you it was time to do something with yourself. Now you're
all conflicted about whether to stick with your stay-at-home lifestyle or follow this
crazy person into the wild. While you're very short and a little furry, you seem to be
surrounded by an even greater quantity of short folks lately. Try not to lose your ring,
but keep its value in perspective!
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
To place in the mythical world of the Means-ground, the Hobbit is a play of adventure of action in which the player assumes the role of Bilbo Baggins. To order Bilbo of its peaceful hole of Hobbit in...
This doll's house has to be seen to be believed. This unnamed girl has created a doll's house based upon the Hobbit's house in Lord of the Rings. The quality is excellent and the amount of skill and work that must have gone into the design and creation is astonishing.
Hobbit Doll House
SCIENTISTS have rained on the parade of the Australian-led team that found the remains of "hobbit" hominids in an Indonesian cave in 2003. The team argued the skeletons on the island of Flores belonged to a race separate from Homo sapiens, but also coming from Homo erectus, probable ancestor of modern man. That would mean H. sapiens, around for at least 150,000 years, would have shared Earth with rival humans far more recently than thought. But in a study in the journal Biology Letters, zoologists at Imperial College London believe hobbits may have achieved their size by evolutionary pressure. Because food on a small island is limited, larger species -- which face fierce competition for a small amount of food -- become smaller, as those that eat less have an advantage.
Sam Raimi has confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that he is interested in directing The Hobbit, but only if Peter Jackson, director of Lord of the Rings agrees.
Raimi said: “Peter Jackson might be the best filmmaker on the planet right now. But, um, I don’t know what’s going to happen next for me right now. First and foremost, those are Peter Jackson and Bob Shaye’s, head of New Line Cinema films. If Peter didn’t want to do it, and Bob wanted me to do it, and they were both OK with me picking up the reins that would be great. I love the book. It’s maybe a more kid-friendly story than the others.”
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Uwe Boll, acclaimed director of several classic video game adaptations, will be going on a trip to Middle Earth soon. New Line cinema revealed today that the director has been working on the project for the past month, and that a new script for the film is in the works, with filming to begin on sound stages in Germany sometime in late 2007.
Appointing Boll as director on the new Hobbit movie marks the end of a search that began back in November of 2006 when Peter Jackson revealed to shocked Lord of the Rings fans that New Line had dropped him from the project. New Line wanted a director who would be able to generate a lot of Internet buzz, one of the key factors in the success of the original trilogy, and executives agree that when it comes to ‘net buzz, Boll is best.
The tiny skeletal remains of human "Hobbits" found on an Indonesian island belong to a completely new branch of our family tree, a study has found.The finds caused a sensation when they were announced to the world in 2004. But some researchers argued the bones belonged to a modern human with a combination of small stature and a brain disorder called microcephaly.That claim is rejected by the latest study, which compares the tiny people with modern microcephalics.
Hobbit cave digs set to restart Archaeologists who found the remains of human Hobbits have gained permission to restart excavations at the cave where the specimens were found. Indonesian officials have blocked access to the cave since 2005, following a...
An open access/free PLoS Biology article by the science writer Tabitha M. Powledge**.
Citation: Powledge TM (2006) What Is the Hobbit? PLoS Biol 4(12): e440 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040440
Who - or what - is Homo floresiensis? (Wiki) The tiny hominid bones, which a joint Australian-Indonesian team unearthed in 2003 on the Indonesian island of Flores, have quickly become as celebrated (and derided) as any find in the tempestuous history of human paleontology. The mystery that shrouds these ancient skeletons, nicknamed hobbits after the diminutive characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels, seems to deepen with every study published. Two main camps have emerged, each certain they can settle the question. But many other paleoanthropologists confess they still have no idea.
H. floresiensis Discovered
The discovery team declared their find a new human species, H. floresiensis, based primarily on a single near-complete skeleton of one very small individual with a very small brain, known as
