[Iarwain]

If PJ does do the Hobbit, and somehow, he was actually reading this, I would reccommend that he himself played Bilbo. He looks very Bilbo-ish, if you know what I mean, and since the film would already be horrible with plot changes and Bilbo begging Bard to help, screaming "But you're part of this town!", we might as well add in an amateur actor to at least add a little comedy to the bit (because, of course, all the original comedy will be long gone, to be replaced by Balin doing stand-up in a hall at Rivendell, and Bombur asking to be tossed over the river in Mirkwood).<P>I have now just achieved the longest, most jumbled mess of a sentence ever.<P>Iarwain