We've known for sometime that
Elijah Wood will be reprising his role as Frodo Baggins in
The Hobbit for a brief book-end scene with the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, in what we can only presume will be a flash forward cameo scene as the new movie is set decades before what has gone before. And now comes word from
Peter Jackson himself that
Ian Holm is also due to reprise his LOTR role as Bilbo Baggins, presumably in the same scene. The director posted on
facebook earlier;
One comment that came up from the recent video blog was the Bilbo voice at the endmany of you assumed it was Sir Ian Holm. Whilst Ian will be returning as the older Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, that recording was actually Martin Freemans voice, taken from a script read through we recorded when the cast first arrived. I have to admit, I wasnt sure who it was when I first heard it, either. Cheers, Peter J
Unless you have been living under a rock or living life as ignorant as a Hobbit, you will know
Martin Freeman is currently filming his part as Bilbo right now and the video blog being referred to is a wonderful 10 minute video blog of when production started a few weeks ago in New Zealand which you can find
HERE. Ian Holm going There And Back Again? Cool...