Parker Bennett is a graduate of Emerson College with more than 3 years of writing experience. He's been a fan and scholar of Tolkien's extended works for nearly his whole life, and is excited to be ...

In the first film in the Hobbit trilogy, we meet a hobbit known as Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm). He begins to tell a story that happened to him many years ago. We turn back in time to a younger Bilbo ...

Tristan is an aspiring video game designer with a special interest in open worlds and puzzle games. His reviews of video games and films have been published in Bates College's student newspaper.

According to our enthusiastic toy consumer who chimed in yesterday about Tauriel and The Great Goblin, there are two factions of orcs appearing in December’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, ...

Even now, two decades later, the Lord of the Rings trilogy is widely thought of as one of the greatest film franchises in history. Peter Jackson returned to Middle-earth to try and recapture that same ...

Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies." Mark Pokorny © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures ...

There’s a moment in The Hobbit 3 that I’m going to spoil for you, because nothing else that happens in The Hobbit 3 really matters. It’s a moment of crisis for Thorin Oakenshield. “Who is Thorin ...

When we last left the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his dwarf companions, they had begun their quest to the Misty Mountains with the aid of Gandalf the Grey. The dwarves were determined to find the hidden ...

Poor Thorin Oakenshield — the would-be King under the mountain just can’t get a break. In The Hobbit, Azog the Defiler kills his Granddad, then he steals the dwarf’s favorite shield… and he’s not done ...