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"A new TV spot for The Hobbit has been released.  The ad, which features a small amount of new footage, focuses on Martin Freeman&amp;#039;s Bilbo Baggins.      &amp;quot;I know you doubt me -\u00C2\u00A0I know you always have,&amp;quot; Bilbo says to lead dwarf Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), before pledging to help the dwarves recover their lost homeland, the Lonely Mountain. Writer Philippa Boyens recently spoke about the decision to make three Hobbit films, explaining that Tolkien left much of the story untold in The Hobbit and filled in the gaps in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings. &amp;quot;He expanded on a lot of things there and we chose to draw upon those, to reshape some of The Hobbit - but only so we could encompass and explain things,&amp;quot; Boyens said. &amp;gt; Ian McKellen on &amp;#039;The Hobbit&amp;#039;: &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s as exciting as Lord of the Rings&amp;#039; &amp;gt; Sean Bean on &amp;#039;The Hobbit&amp;#039; absence: &amp;#039;They&amp;#039;re sticklers for detail&amp;#039; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on December 13.  Watch the trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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