# Peter Jackson re-doing The Hobbit for 2006?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-re-doing-the-hobbit-for-2006/208840>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 22, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-re-doing-the-hobbit-for-2006/208840 "2003-10-22T03:41:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-re-doing-the-hobbit-for-2006/208840/21 "2003-11-01T00:48:22Z")

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> \*Originally posted by lilbtagna \*  
> \*\*I saw that a year ago on [theonering.net](http://theonering.net). It was just something a hopeful fan made for fun and he put it on his website.
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> Are you serious, **Yumblie**? Peter Jackson’s the only person I could think of capable of even touching _The Hobbit_. Anyone who’s read the books (and many more people have read them now because of the movies) will know that _The Hobbit_ was not as deep as LOTR was. However, it is still set in the same universe with the same grand adventures, battles, and morals. \*\*

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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-jackson-re-doing-the-hobbit-for-2006/208840/22 "2003-11-01T00:50:57Z")

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I’d like someone else to try. I love Jackson’s interpretation of Middle-earth, but we’ve seen it. I’d enjoy being able to discover it all over again through someone else’s eyes.

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> \*Originally posted by lilbtagna \*  
> \*\*I saw that a year ago on [theonering.net](http://theonering.net). It was just something a hopeful fan made for fun and he put it on his website.
> 
> Are you serious, **Yumblie**? Peter Jackson’s the only person I could think of capable of even touching _The Hobbit_. Anyone who’s read the books (and many more people have read them now because of the movies) will know that _The Hobbit_ was not as deep as LOTR was. However, it is still set in the same universe with the same grand adventures, battles, and morals. \*\*

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