Perpetual child Elijah Wood could be donning the unconvincing hairy feet of a hobbit in Peter Jackson’s next Tolkien adaptation, according to unverified reports doing the rounds online this week.
The Hobbit is hitting the big screen at the end of 2012 but the cast has yet to be finalised, with some suggesting that Wood will be joined by Orlando Bloom and that bloke from Lost, but until everyone is signed up and committed fans will continue to cross their fingers until they are red and raw.
Frodo Baggins, the part that made and essentially destroyed Wood, is not actually in the original book but fan site The One Ring.net has suggested that he’ll make an appearance as a narrator to frame the film in its opening.
What we really want to hear is that Ian McKellen and Andy ‘Green Screen’ Serkis have both bound themselves to this project, but as this is yet to happen we’ll have to sustain ourselves with potentially spurious morsels like this.
