Elijah Wood as Frodo in The Hobbit?

Anyone else find this a bit problematic?  

Uh, well, um, what's Frodo doing in The Hobbit, for one thing?  Hope it's just misreporting.

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  1. Steven,

    Doing it the way the author did it, doesn't really feed the ego, so the director has to "improve" it.

    I wouldn't be surprised if Frodo and some of the others do show up in _The Hobbit_. And, no doubt, LOTR will be rereleased for the theaters at the same time.

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  2. Dear Fred,

    Maybe Bilbo is narrating this to Frodo--otherwise chronology doesn't make any sense (if I recall correctly). Frodo hasn't even been born yet--isn't that right?

    Anyway, I'm puzzled.

    shalom,

    Steven

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  3. Steven,

    The sequence is, as I remember it, as follows:

    Bilbo's adventures in _The Hobbit_.

    Bilbo returns and some time afterwards adopts Frodo.

    _The Lord of the Rings_.

    So, at some point between Bilbo's adoption of Frodo and Bilbo's going-away party when Frodo gets the Ring, Bilbo could have told a younger Frodo the story.

    I always think of the initial setting for_The Hobbit_ as being the following scene: a kindly uncle is seated in a comfortable chair, surrounded by several nieces and nephews sitting on the floor while he tells them a story.

    So, there is some justification for dragging Frodo in, although my suspicion is that it's more marketing than thematic in this case.

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