After seeing "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at one of the celebrated midnight showings earlier this month, I experienced the following: joy, frustration, bewilderment and excitement. In the last ...

The Lord of the Rings is the most popular fantasy franchise of all time for its loving endeavor into the lives and cultures of many fantastical creatures, including Hobbits, Elves, and Dwarves.

There is an early moment in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that captures the evocative poetry of J.R.R. Tolkien’s songs — something that The Lord of the Rings films, for all their achievements, ...

There is an early moment in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that captures the evocative poetry of Tolkien’s songs — something that The Lord of the Rings films, for all their achievements, never did.

In Tolkien's original story, Azog was not the main antagonist. In fact he didn't even make an appearance. In the book, the dwarves manage to stir up the goblins of Misty Mountains, after they slay the ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Azog never appears in the Hobbit novel, but he is certainly a character that was created by Tolkien. In the original back-story for Thorin Oakenshield, it was his father who had fought with the Pale ...

The next entry in the long-running LEGO series of games is available now. LEGO The Hobbit, which covers the events of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is ...

Amazon Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will harken back to Peter Jackson’s original trilogy by relying predominantly on practical effects and prosthetics in bringing the Orcs ...