Cate Blanchett landed a cameo role in ‘The Hobbit’ by sending a “jokey email” to director Peter Jackson. The 55-year-old actress played Galadriel in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy and she has confessed she got excited when she heard Jackson was returning to the same fantasy world to bring the prequel to the big screen but Cate told GQ she thought “there wasn’t a snowflake’s chance in Hell of me reprising my role.” However, she decided to take a chance and send Jackson a message. She explained: “I sent kind of a jokey email to Pete, saying, ‘You know, if you want to put Galadriel in, I’m free….