Peter Jackson has to get a little sliced up before starting The Hobbit.

I was pretty bummed to hear that PJ went down for the count because of a perforated ulcer. Stuff.co.nz reported “that Jackson was admitted to Wellington Hospital last night with acute stomach pains.”

Was is funny about this is that supposedly Tolkien dropped dead from complications from a similar type of ulcer. Weeeird.

PJ will be fine, but the The Hobbit film is AGAIN being delayed, this time so he has time to recover. Wikipedia.org’s page on ulcer’s say this:

“It is a very serious condition where an untreated ulcer can burn through the wall of the stomach (or other areas of the gastrointestinal tract), allowing digestive juices and food to leech into the abdominal cavity. Treatment generally requires immediate surgery. The ulcer is known initially as a peptic ulcer before the ulcer burns through the full thickness of the stomach or duodenal wall. A diagnosis is made by taking an X-ray of the stomach area (seeking air under the diaphragm). This is in fact one of the very few occasions in modern time where surgery is undertaken to treat an ulcer.”

Very serious? PJ’s publicist didn’t make it out to be a big deal. I know Wikipedia’s realiability is comparable to a game of telephone with four year olds, but still, I hope the skinny little bastard is okay. All that time being fat and NOW he gets sick…weird.

-Collin