Casting timeline

[Emmie]

Today at the big show he said that casting might get under way in roughly two months, with auditions, conferences, screen tests and negotiations. Casting announcements might happen in the fall.
Source: http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/07/24/32877-jackson-the-process-of-casting-the-hobbit/

[zilleus]

this will make a new one record