The Hobbit to start filming in 2010

[Josh]

I've posted this before, but I'll do it again for the sake of the newbies

# July, 2941 - Bilbo Baggins obtains the One Ring; the White Council drives Sauron out of Dol Guldur
# 2941 - Esgaroth is attacked by the dragon Smaug, who is consequentially killed by Bard the Bowman; Battle of Five Armies
# June 22, 2942 - Bilbo Baggins returns to Bag End

---END OF THE HOBBIT---

# 2951 - Estel, later known as Aragorn, comes of age and is told about his heritage; the Corsairs of Umbar officially ally themselves with Mordor and destroy great monument commemorating Ar-Pharazôn's victory over Sauron
# 2953 - Last meeting of the White Council. Fengel, fifteenth king of Rohan, dies. His son Thengel returns to Rohan to succeed him.
# 2956 - Aragorn first meets Gandalf the Grey
# 2957-2980 - Aragorn as Thorongil serves in the armies of King Thengel of Rohan, and Steward Ecthelion II of Gondor
# September 22, 2968 - Frodo Baggins is born
# 2978 - Birth of Boromir
# 2980 - Arwen pledges her hand in marriage to Aragorn; Frodo Baggins loses both of his parents in a boating accident; Aragorn, in the service of the Steward of Gondor Ecthelion II leads a taskforce south and kills the Captain of the Haven, ruler of Umbar; Samwise Gamgee born;[14] Théoden, son of Thengel, becomes seventeenth king of Rohan after the death of his father.
# 2982 - Birth of Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry)
# 2983 - Birth of Faramir
# 2989 - Frodo Baggins comes under the guardianship of Bilbo Baggins; a company of Dwarves, led by Balin, try to recolonize Moria
# 2990 - Birth of Peregrin Took (Pippin)
# 2991 - Birth of Éomer
# 2994 - Balin is killed; the dwarf-colony in Moria is destroyed
# 2995 - Birth of Éowyn

---BEGINNING OF LORD OF THE RINGS---

# 3001 - Bilbo Baggins turns 111, passes the One Ring on to Frodo Baggins, and leaves the Shire. From now on Aragorn and Gandalf intermittently hunt Gollum


There is a lot of stuff that happens between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Enough to make a fairly lengthy movie.