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.
“All good stories deserve embellishment,” says the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. And he says it with a twinkle, as though he ...
Digital Spy: Richard Armitage and dwarves talk 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'
Richard Armitage, James Nesbitt and Aidan Turner have discussed their roles as dwarves in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Armitage plays stern dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield, whose tense ...
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Why The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Is the Best Film of the Trilogy
As fans await the next Middle-earth saga, The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, the first installment in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit is finding new life on streaming. The Hobbit: An Unexpected ...
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 told in The Hobbit. Additional material and new characters were created specially for the films.
The Hobbit, fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, published in 1937. The novel introduced Tolkien’s richly imagined world of Middle Earth in its Third Age and served as a prologue to his The Lord of the Rings.