Entertainment Weekly heeft drie officiele promotiefoto's mogen plaatsen van de aanstaande twee The Hobbit films The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey en The Hobbit: There and Back Again, beide geregisseerd door Peter Jackson. Het eerste deel uit de tweeluik verschijnt 14 december 2012. Het slotstuk begint op 13 december 2013.

Hieronder zie je de eerste foto, met daarop Martin Freeman als Bilbo Baggings. "He fits the ears, and he's got some very nice feet. I think he's got the biggest hobbit feet we've had so far. They're a little bit hard to walk in, but he's managed to figure out the perfect hobbit gait.", aldus Jackson over Freeman/Bilbo.

De volgende foto is van Ian McKellen als Gandalf. Jackson over McKellen: "He's in fantastic form. In a way, his role in The Hobbit has more technical difficulties than Lord of the Rings did, because he has scenes with 14 smaller characters — obviously the dwarves and the hobbit are shorter... I remember saying to him [laughs], "Look, this isn't Waiting for Godot or King Lear. This is The Hobbit. This is the real thing."



Op de laatste foto is Jackson in gesprek met Freeman. "There's no way you can pace yourself for shoots like these. When we were going through the schedule for The Hobbit, I felt a terrible drop in my stomach when I saw that we'd be shooting for 254 days. We're only 12 days short of The Lord of the Rings even though we're only doing two movies. When I saw that, I had to sort of pick myself up off the floor and carry on."