PJ wants to do The Hobbit {seriously}

[Lobelia]

Originally Posted by Bungo Baggins

I think the Hobbit would be a wonderful prequel to the series. PJ would do it justice and I think his team would know how to lighten it up a little bit. I think the original hobbits could work in small cameos, but not much more.

Does it need a lot of lightening? Okay, Thorin dies, but there's plenty of humour in the rest of the novel - the smug, middle-class hobbit dragged off on a quest, after hosting all those Dwarves, running around like a chicken with its head off serving them afternoon tea, Beorn's bewilderment at the Dwarves turning up in pairs, the Elves' cheeky songs, Bilbo running around Thranduil's palace and struggling with the barrels...