Making the movie trilogy "The Hobbit" has cost more than half a billion dollars so far, double the amount spent on the three movies in the "The Lord of the Rings" series. That figure ...

"I often think of Bag End. That's where I belong... That's home." Wow - this may be the best TV spot yet. Warner Bros has unveiled another TV spot (listed as #6) for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An ...

The spirit of adventure is in all of us. That’s the message permeating Wheelock Family Theatre’s new production of “The Hobbit.” The company premiered J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy tale last weekend for a ...

To the surprise of no one, other than snooty film critics, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey broke Christmas box office records this past weekend. In addition to being a classic children's tale of ...

Once there was a director named Peter Jackson, who made three grand movies based on a high-fantasy novel by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, about a mighty battle of good and evil, called The Lord of the ...

Adventures, Bilbo Baggins tells Gandalf the wizard, are “nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things”. And there are plenty of nasty and uncomfortable things in store for the peaceable, home-loving Hobbit ...

Gandalf promises Bilbo Baggins a “profitable” quest, but the wizard has a different sort of treasure in mind. Many of [J. R. R.] Tolkien’s contemporaries, writers such as Sartre and Beckett, depicted ...

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is enough, in itself, to renew your faith in movies. Visually, it is a spectacle that could only be presented on the big motion picture screen. The long wait – the ...