After many starts and stops, production on the Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit has finally begun.

We’ve known for some time that the movie would be split into two halves, but what we didn’t know is if they would be called just The Hobbit: Part 1 and The Hobbit: Part 2.

Well, Lord of the Rings super-site TheOneRing.net seems to have found some fancier titles for the movies.

New Line Cinema has registered two movie titles, and they certainly would fit the bill of Part 1 and 2. They are…

The Hobbit: There and Back Again

and

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Personally, these are perfect.  It ties perfectly into the Rings trilogy (after all, Bilbo’s novel was called There and Back Again), and given that the sequel mixes Tolken’s post Hobbit work and ties into Lord of the Rings proper, I suppose unexpected would be a great title.

As always though, these titles may not actually be used, so take this with a grain of salt. For me? These titles are just too right to be fake.

Source: TheOneRing.netâ„¢.