O Joyous Day!

I'm sure all the Tolkien fans out there have heard the news already. New Line and Peter Jackson have resolved their differences and now "The Hobbit" has been greenlite for production. Needless to say, I'm a little overjoyed at this news.

I am a HUGE Tolkien fan, a very large Peter Jackson fan, and a big-time fan of the LOTR movie trilogy. Despite the news that Jackson will not be directing (he has two other movies on his plate right now) the fact that he and Fran Walsh have creative control is good enough for me. I am so looking forward to this. TheOneRing.net put it well when they said that the Tolkien community was in "hysterics" upon hearing the news.

This will hopefully mean more music from Howard Shore, more genius work from Weta Workshop and Weta Digital, more creative goodness from Alan Lee and John Howe, more of everything that I loved about LOTR. I just can't wait. Now I can go back to expecting spy reports, casting rumors, etc. As much as I don't like to admit it, I am a total geek when it comes to this stuff.

Now I will have to reread The Hobbit again to make sure I have my details correct. It wouldn't hurt to reread the ancillary material from LOTR either. Oh joy, what fun we shall have.