You thought that was it, didn’t you? You thought that – after sitting through the gazillion hours of the combined Lord Of The Rings movies and being force-fed more Enya than one person could stand – it was all over, right?

Wrong! MGM in its infinite wisdom has announced that it’s going to make a movie based on The Hobbit – the child-friendly, nauseatingly twee prequel to the Lord Of The Rings series. What’s more, MGM has publicly declared that it wants Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson to direct this new Hobbit film, so any of you who wanted to see a Hobbit movie that runs for less than eight or nine hours and without several interminable scenes of a wizard walking across a mountain can go and whistle.