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This article that I read today listed off a bunch of names (most of which are, of course, unknown to me) of men who will be playing Bilbo and the dwarfs in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit movies, supposedly coming out beginning in 2012 (presumably hoping the world doesn't end that December, so we'll be able to see the second installment).

However, one name was familiar. Richard Armitage. He's set to play Thorin Oakenshield (ah, so many memories abound thinking about Tolkien's book). I know him from being the nasty Guy of Gisbourne on BBC's Robin Hood series, so picturing him as a dwarf is stretching my imagination a little, but it will be fun. (: