The Hobbit is a trilogy of fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. The films are subtitled An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014). [5] The films are based on J. R. R. Tolkien 's 1937 novel The Hobbit, but much of the trilogy was inspired by the appendices to his 1954–55 The Lord of the Rings, which expand on the story ...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Directed by Peter Jackson. With Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott. A reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug.
The Hobbit was Tolkien’s first published work. It was greeted with generally strong critical approval—a Times Literary Supplement reviewer likened it to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows —and gratifying sales, which led the publisher, George Allen & Unwin, to encourage Tolkien to write more. The Hobbit was accordingly followed, over a decade later, by its ...
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See the Lord of the Rings movies and shows by release, including the epic trilogy, the Hobbit, and the Rings of Power.
"Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch." —Gandalf, in The Fellowship of the Ring Hobbits, also known as Halflings, were a mortal race of Middle-earth. Though their exact origins are unclear, they were initially found in the northern ...