Tolkien portrait J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien (1892-1973) was an English writer and philologist best known as the author of the high fantasy cult classics, The Hobbit (1937), originally ...

Even an Axe to the Head Couldn't Stop Bifur Bifur is one of the 12 Dwarves selected to accompany Thorin Oakenshield to the ...

Making a significant jump in screen time over the previous dwarves on the list, Kili, the youngest dwarf of the party, ...

Next up is Fíli, the dashing young dwarf whose golden hair and adventurous spirit set hearts racing. As Thorin's nephew and heir to the throne of Erebor, he's got those striking blue eyes—talk ...

Synopsis of The Hobbit (1977) The first Lord of the Rings animated movie was The Hobbit released in 1977 and directed by Arthur Ranking Jr. and Jules Bass. The hobbit Bilbo Baggins is approached by ...

There are no female characters that appear in The Hobbit despite the book having characters like hobbits, dragons, dwarves, elves, goblins, giants, trolls, and even a strange creature named Gollum.

To hear some people talk of it, The Hobbit is the greatest text adventure ever. Of course, it's not. By modern eyes, it's about as primitive as an orc's dating profile. ("Name: Azog the Defiler.

Shrinking Elephants Once Called Sicily Home New research suggests that in as little as 40 generations, elephants could have become dwarf size on the island off Italy’s boot. Share full article 12 ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) I hate to be negative since we’re all Lord of the Rings fans here, but The Desolation of Smaug is aggressively bad and by far the worst LotR related ...

Some things in The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings trilogy can be left behind. The world of Middle-earth betrays forms of paternalism, imperialism, and racial essentialism that have no use today.