The first official trailer for The Hobbit has been released, and holy all things awesome, Batman.

The Hobbit was a life-changing book for me. I seriously read that book at least a dozen times as a child, and it would be fair to say it is one of the many books that saved my life back then, which seems melodramatic to say perhaps, but it is its own truth.

Suffice it to say, I can’t wait for this movie to release next December. There are few movies I care to see more than once in the theater, and I fully expect this movie to be one of them.