Look, guys, all that matters is that I'm pretty sure Beorn is going to be in the movie. BEORN. The freaking BEAR MAN who CHANGES INTO A BEAR. AND KILLS THINGS.

AS A BEAR.

A BEAR.

Getting himself written out of a kickass "Taking Over Hobbiton and Eventually Getting Shot To Death By a Mob of Angry Hobbit-Rebels" scene, if I remember correctly.

He could have had THAT, but instead he ends getting surrounded by annoyed tree-people and is left to an ambiguous stranded-in-a-tower doom.

Poor dude.

Drunk obscure post.
 

Tom Bombadil doesn't hold a candle to Tinfang Warble.

There, I said it.

*coug*extendededition*cough*

SecretSauron faked his own death. Balrogs were servants of Morgoth and thus now work for Sauron.It allowed him to get away from the hobbits for a while and spy on the Saruman. I mean isn't it awfully conveinient that the Balrog didn't attack all those orcs running around the mountain? Or that the Balrog and SecretSauron killed each other with the same blow?
What Saruman i up to? Pretty much what's in the book. Building an army, murdering short people.

Wife must have left him for a little person.

Edit: What is the status on interbreeding in this universe? Can elves, hobbits, humans, and dwarves all stir the genetic pot together?

Elves and Humans, definitely. X and Hobbits, no evidence (though it was said that once upon a time, one of the Tooks msut have taken a fairy [elf] for a wife, but this was, of course, "ridiculous").

Dwarves, no.

Nobody likes Dwarves "like that".

Seriously?
Tolkien named the guy who can change into a bear "Beorn"?

Admittedly, I'm not that big of a Tolkien nut, but I thought he was more creative than that. =/

Orcs and humans get it on.

The other answer is obviously trolololol, but I don't care about that.
 

It's the only thing my country has ever produced. They teach it in history class.