Someone’s smoking too much pipe-weed…. The Hobbit is finally greenlit, there’s a director in place – and it’s
Peter Jackson – so everyone’s happy now, right? Wrong. Consider the boat rocked. Jackson is mucking about with the story, and he may be adding scenes bookending the film for Elijah Wood to appear in as Frodo. First we lost Tom Bombadil and The Scouring of the Shire in the
Rings trilogy. Now this? Jackson has earned a lot of goodwill for his great work on
The Lord of the Rings, but he definitely spent some of it today.
--Adam Rosenberg