I think though that the date that TheOneRing.net talked about (2005) is just a date that they threw out as part of their big April Fools joke. I still think that there is nothing else set in stone, and in addition I have heard nothing about New Line and MGM solving their differences, so I don't think anything is final. But I do think that if a Hobbit movie does go into production sometime soon, it will probably start around that date (or most likely a little bit later, 2005 is only next year
time does go by fast).