Perhaps not so new news, but welcome nonetheless. The Hobbit will be coming to the big-screen in December, 2012. The trailer shows the same attention to detail and exciting elements that characterized The Lord of the Rings movies, so it’s something I’m certainly looking forward to. I can still remember my friends Tim and Greg talking about Tolkien’s stories in class when we were in High School. At the time I was much taken with Science Fiction, and had read many great stories, but I had never ventured into the Fantasy realm. Their talk of goblins and wizards seemed exceedingly strange to me, so I never paid much attention. Then one weekend when shopping at our local department store, Tim took me to the book section and essentially wouldn’t let me leave until I had bought all four books: The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and…