Martin Freeman stars in The Office: Middle Earth

If you’re sad that The Hobbit trilogy is coming to an end with the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, fear not.

For not only does life continue on for Bilbo Baggins but also for sales rep Tim Canterbury (not to be confused with the Canterbury Tales) from the original (and, might I argue, superior) version of The Office from the U.K.

In the following clip from The Office: Middle Earth (courtesy of Saturday Night Live), we find that Baggins is now working at a paper company with Gandalf as his boss (Bobby Moynihan in Ricky Gervais' role as the office buffoon David Brent).

Gollum (Taram Killam) is Bilbo's coworker who suffers the Jell-O harassment trick that Gareth Keenan (Mackenzie Crook) once did.

Also, Tauriel is a receptionist. But she still wields her mighty bows and arrows.

The above clip featured various recreations of scenes from the U.K. version of The Office, including the infamous dance sequence by David Brent.

The original scene in which David Brent talks to Tim Canterbury actually took an extensive number of takes due to Ricky Gervais having an incurable case of the giggles. Here's a look at the blooper reel from The Office that reveals how difficult it was for Gervais to shoot that scene (over 25 takes!).