Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report will appear in a cameo in Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” trilogy according to the Hollywood Reporter. Not in the first film, which arrives in theaters in December, but one of the remaining two.

So what does he play? It’d be hard to keep him from being typecast as a troll…

[Thanks to Janice Gelb for the story. But she’s not to blame for the punchline.]