Every day brings us closer to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Thank goodness they are feeding our need by releasing more footage and screen shots. Still, we should be in just-about-total frenzy by the time the tickets go on sale on November 7. Excellent! Today we have the second TV spot, 16 absolutely gorgeous new screenshots and one heartstoppingly beautiful behind-the-scenes shot. It’s going to be quite a journey.

TV Spot: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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Did you see it? RealD 3D, HFR (High Frame Rate) 3D, and IMAX 3D. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be the first film released in this format, and we’ll know, possibly, by November 7 just which theaters are taking Peter Jackson up on his offer to check out the latest thing. So, looks like we’ll be seeing the movie twice on December 14. For comparison’s sake, of course. We’d better warn the theater to stock up on Milk Duds.

Now, feast your eyes on these delicious shots:

Hungry for more? So are we. Clearly that was only first breakfast. We’ll let you know when – we refuse to say “if” – more trailers, TV spots, pictures, or similar delicious fare is available for our consumption.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is slated to hit theaters on December 14, 2012.  The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be released Dec. 13, 2013; the third installment in the series, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, will hit theaters July 18, 2014.

The films star Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchette, Elijah Wood, Hugo Weaving, Sylvester McCoy, Aidan Turner , Graham McTavish, John Callen, Ken Stott, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Stephen Hunter, Ian Holm, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Conan Stevens, Orlando Bloom, Luke Evans, Evangeline Lilly, Barry Humphries and Benedict Cumberbatch.