The official release:

MovieTickets.com, the worldwide leader in advance movie ticketing, begins advance ticket sales for THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY today! Moviegoers who purchase advance tickets for the film through MovieTickets.com will receive a free music download of the track "Old Friends" from the film's score composed by Howard Shore.

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson, is the first of a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The film will be released on December 14, 2012.