I am not quite sure what an “announcement trailer” is, since I have always thought that every trailer exists to announce something (namely, that a new movie is coming). That being said, I think that Peter Jackson is a talented director, though I was most interested when I learned that Guillermo Del Toro was at the helm.
Though I noticed that Del Toro has a writing credit, so that’s good too.
I will probably see the film if I think that there’s a chance that I can pick out any of his handiwork, which if the MTV article I linked to is accurate, is greater than I had guessed, despite that he had left them film when MGM was in dire financial straits, and before principal photography had begun.

For me The Hobbit looks incredible in ways that cannot be expressed in words, I couldn’t be more excited.
Nice post!