'Hobbit' Films Get Names, Release Dates

By Moviefone Editors Posted May 31st 2011 07:45AM

The official titles of the two upcoming 'Hobbit' films have just been announced and there's none of this boring 'Part 1' and 'Part 2' nonsense.

The first of the two films will be called 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' and the second 'The Hobbit: There and Back Again.' The first references one of the book's chapter headings, the second is actually part of author J.R. R. Tolkien's original title, 'The Hobbit or There and Back Again.' (We're betting movie marquees will still opt for the simpler '1' and '2.')

And now fans have official release dates to circle on their calendars: 'Journey' arrives as an early Christmas present on December 14, 2012 and its follow-up also has a holiday release, December 13, 2013.

The 'Lord of the Rings' prequels are currently filming in New Zealand, with frequent set updates from director Peter Jackson via Facebook. He recently posted that Orlando Bloom will be the latest 'Rings' actor to make an appearance, joining familiar faces Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis.

Martin Freeman has the lead role of the young Bilbo (the hobbit of the title, of course) with Iam Holm reprising his 'Rings' role of the elder Bilbo.

Tolkien fans, do you approve of the official film titles?

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Tuesday 31 May

By engservprov

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Finally a situation were the movie(s) takes longer to watch than the book takes to read..Be interesting to see what liberties will be taken with the story line...and if We can stay awake two Decembers in a row...

By Bill

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Is this idiot going to rewrite this story to? I sure hope its as boring and lame as the lord of the rings movies where! You can tell it will suck because he tries to rewrite it like hes doing something original. Maybe you could make up another lame love story line like the one you made up and runied the three movies with using liv tyler in a made up role!! Hopefully this idiot dosent turn it into a boring, stupid love story again! What a moron!! Is Peter Jackson sick? Ever since he got his stomach stapled it looks like he has a disease.

By findemaxa13

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dear bill: arwen is in the book. ever read it?

By Mark Roy-Brooks

I have to admit at first I was a bit upset when I saw that some of the people mentioned(Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett,Christopher Lee) were going to be in the films since none of these characters were in the original book. Then I read something the other day that Jackson was incorporating some of the stories from the appendixes found in TLOR. This will be interesting to see how he does this. I believe overall he did a great job with the Trilogy. If anyone can pull this off, he will.

By KC

Great idea, love the titles. Go Peter!!!!!!!

By isalcefus

Why can't they just leave it alone? The first 3 movies were great, just say NO! I'm sure there are other mythical creatures we would love to see in a movie?

By bugaloosnana

Can't wait to see them. I was a huge fan of the books before the movies ever came out. Thought Jackson did a tremendous job on the movies. By the way, did you know that the books written by Tolkien were meant to be childrens books? Bet he never dreamt the impact his works would have on people of all ages.

By cher

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH NO.......well at least we'll get to see the first movie before the end of the world

I'd like to see him do a movie base on another of Tolkiens works, The Silmarllion. It is a history of the Elves, their origins and lives.

By debbie

its about time they made the hobbit movie or even reconize that this is the beginning of the rings, the why and how it all happen. good titles but I don't understand why it took 2 movies

By Gina Salvatore

Oh my GOD. I am beyond excited about this!!! The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit are among my favorite pieces of English literature! And Peter Jackson does such an excellent job of capturing them! Wooo, so pumped!

By gobluespartyon

Excited for the Hobbit movies. And another LOTR movie awesome the third movie bitter end they should have picked just one ending as it had too many ending just my opinion otherwise I liked LOTR.

By Malcolm Shabazz X-Muhammed

What's this posting got to do with the Kardashian girls? Don't the people at Moviefone know that's all we care about? More about Kim! Especially more about Khloe!
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Friday 03 June

By Voice of Wisdom

I loved the trilogy and I can't wait for the Hobbit films.

I too would like to see Jackson do films for the Silmarilion. I'd love to see the Balrogs of Morgoth battle Ungoliant. Or Sauron taken prisoner by the Dunedain and submitting to Ar-Pharazôn, only to deceive and lead them to their destruction. And then imagine the special effects for Eru changing Middle earth. It would be awesome.

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