Tag: Tolkien

More Stories (Movies) From J. R. R. Tolkien

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All of us were enthralled by the Lord of the Rings movies and probably have a copy in our DVD/Blu-Ray collection. While The Hobbit also written by J. R. R. Tolkien was also made into a movie trilogy. The Hobbit is only about three hundred pages long. However, confident that his book would one day be divided into a dozen movies, author JRR Tolkien also provided 125 pages of Hobbit backstory, billed as “The Appendices,” in a later edition of the final Lord of the Rings novel The Return of…

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The Hobbit – Behind the Scenes — Radagast the Brown Video

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The Hobbit is now out on DVD and Blu-Ray, but some new featurettes and other bonus features are finding their way online to help promote the release. Yahoo Movies UK got their hands on a very entertaining feature on how Peter Jackson and his crew made the crazy and wonderful Radagast the Brown come to life. Well, they did a lot of work but it was Sylvester McCoy who fully brought the character to life and stole several scenes. In the video you can see everything from the design process…

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Movie Review

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is the first of a three-part film adaptation of the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien to be followed by The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again, due for theatrical release in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Set in Middle-earth sixty years before The Lord of the Rings, the story tells of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is coerced by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to accompany thirteen…

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THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY “White Council” Poster

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MEDIA RELEASE: Check out this brand new promo poster for the first installment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, featuring our first look at the members of the White Council – Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel, and Saruman – gathered together in Rivendell. The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic 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 joining a company of thirteen dwarves…

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Trailer For THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Movie

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First official trailer has been revealed for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a prequel to the highly popular The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic 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 joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into…

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