Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday! Of course, he's dead... but it's still his birthday! ;) lol
And to celebrate, I'm going to post exciting Tolkien news (Which really is old news now because it was announced a couple of weeks ago but I was too busy to post it back then.^^) ...
Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema, along with MGM Studios, are finally going to be making The Hobbit! They have been in negotiations for years about the rights to the movie and they just last month came to an agreement! There will be two movies, filmed back to back (the same way that The Lord of the Rings was) and then released one year apart. The first movie will be out in 2010 and the second in 2011!
We are SO EXCITED! Just recently, Acadia "read" The Hobbit. (She didn't really read it, she listened to the unabridged book on tape during a couple of road trips. But close enough, she listened to it all.) She had asked if there was a movie she could watch now, and while we had to tell her "not yet" at that point, now we can say, "There will be!"
I'd say that's a great birthday gift to all of us! :D
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