The origin story of the dwarves of The Lord of the Rings offers fascinating insight into why they differ from the races of ...

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The Dwarves' singing was a highlight of The Hobbit for me, no matter what other fans might say. The Lord of the Rings was an action adventure movie but also quite serious in tone a lot of the time ...

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Bilbo Baggins is swept into a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself ...

If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the dwarves. The party must complete the journey to Lonely Mountain and ...

Joe Morgenstern was the movie critic for The Wall Street Journal. He joined the Journal in May 1995.

The first Scottish Gaelic translation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy adventure The Hobbit has been completed by a professor at the University of Aberdeen. Moray Watson, a professor of Gaelic and translation ...

The Hobbit collection is a three-part epic fantasy-adventure film directed and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel of the same name. The trilogy of films are ...