If you’re a dutiful netizen, then you’ve probably already seen the old Leonard Nimoy music video for The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. If you haven’t, you can watch it below. Anyway, since The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is raking in the dough at the box office, IGN asked the cast of The Hobbit to read the aforementioned ballad. It’s…it’s kinda awesome. I guess Richard Armitage is just like Thorin in real life, all serious and such. And I think Benedict Cumberbatch is trying to do an Ian McKellan imitation? Anyway, here’s the original video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04