This publicity film image released by Warner Bros., shows Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in a scene from the fantasy adventure "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." ...

Tolkien's The Hobbit novel, Smaug referred to Thorin as "Oakenshield." This is an epithet that the Dwarven prince earned ...

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey— the first of three of Hobbit –based installments planned—released a makeover to its original trailer to match a new marketing campaign ...

The first film in the trifecta, An Unexpected Journey, was often content to duplicate the book’s characters and situations, like the Xerox of an illuminated medieval manuscript. In Smaug, the ...

Little about the storytelling suggests a beating heart beneath the visuals; once the journey has begun, the characters find themselves in life-threatening danger with stupefying regularity (and ...

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