The Hobbit movie is coming, one way or another. Sure everything seems to be a mess right now, and the studio that was going to make it doesn’t even exist as an independent entity anymore, but it’s going to happen. Eventually. So gird your loins and get your elvish ass excited: AICN has the scoop on the first actual human being attached to the project. It’s Howard Shore, the guy who came up with the amazing score for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies.

Word is that Shore recently told a concert audience he’s involved, and apparently already at work. Shore says he’s been cooking up ideas for Hobbit movie themes since way back when he was first working on The Two Towers. Now if only the movie could get a director, or a cast, or a studio, or get some of the nagging lawsuits which seem to pop up to plague it on a weekly basis settled. Then we’ll all be free to join a party of Dwarf adventurers off to slay a dragon and plunder treasure. We can hum Howard Shore music while we travel. I’m a pretty good thief. Pick me!