Something New the Way of Middle-earth Comes

And The Hobbit just got must-y for me.

Lost star Evangeline Lilly has joined the ever-expanding cast of Peter Jackson’s prequel.

“[Evangeline] will be playing a new character, the Woodland Elf Tauriel,” the director said in his Facebook announcement.

Jackson also revealed that Barry Humphries will pull an Andy Serkis to play the Goblin King.

Up next for Lilly is a turn opposite Hugh Jackman in this fall’s Real Steel.

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