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LOS ANGELES: "Lord of the Rings" cine admirers were accustomed an aboriginal ceremony amusement this ceremony with the absolution of a bivouac for prequel "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," whetting their appetites a year afore the blur hits theaters.

"The Hobbit" is the fourth blur in administrator Peter Jackson's box-office hit "Lord of the Rings" blur franchise. It explores the adventure of hobbit Bilbo Baggins and how he came to acquire the arena that he after anesthetized assimilate his kinsman, Frodo Baggins.

The two and a half-minute bivouac shows an aged Bilbo autograph a letter that tells Frodo -- the key appearance in the "Rings" movies -- about his own adventures. It again flashes aback to a adolescent Bilbo actuality pushed out of the abundance of the Shire and into a adventure beyond adopted acreage guided by the wizard, Gandalf.

The films are based on biographer J. R. R. Tolkien's ballsy fantasy alternation "Lord of the Rings," which followed his atypical "The Hobbit." To date, the leash of "Rings" books has awash added than 150 amateur copies about the world.

"The Hobbit" will be breach into two genitalia with the aboriginal chapter due in December 2012 and the additional in December 2013. The movies affection "Love Actually" amateur Martin Freeman as Bilbo, and see the acknowledgment of Ian McKellen's Gandalf, Cate Blanchett's elf queen Galadriel and Andy Serkis' Gollum.

The trailer's absolution almost coincided with the 10-year ceremony of the aboriginal "Rings" cine landing in theaters.

The bivouac had critics active on Wednesday, with Time Magazine's Gilbert Cruz adage "Is it accessible to feel homesickness for article that is alone a decade old? Of advance it is. And that's absolutely the activity one gets from watching this trailer, which throws us appropriate aback into Middle-earth."

Fans took to amusing media sites to accurate their action with best accusatory about the continued delay until the film's absolution in December 2012.

Michal Nycz acquaint on the film's Facebook page: "I am aloof beguiled by the music. The song is addictive. The blow is gorgeous. I adulation it," while Rachel Stark on Twitter wrote "So, so, SO aflame about The Hobbit trailer! Thorin singing gives me chills...this seems so abundant darker than expected." (Reuters)
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