This article was originally published on wizardsandwhatnot.com as The Hobbit Lessons Learned, Chapter 3: A Short Rest.

Before the release of the first film in The Hobbit trilogy, Viggo Mortensen expressed doubt about Peter Jackson's one ...

The best he can do is, as another crazy old wizard in fiction suggests, "let go of [his] conscious self and act on instinct." ...

The special slipcased version of the wonderful Tolkien Illustrated Edition of The Hobbit released in October.

But Tolkien shuns satire as frivolous and allegory as tendentious. His preparation is immersion in Welsh, Norse, Gaelic, Scandinavian, and Germanic folklore. The Hobbit, the earliest of Professor ...

The Middle-earth Six-Film Collection is a massive 30-disc box set that includes 4K UHD and Blu-ray versions of all six of ...

From the makers of the immensely popular LEGO The Lord of the Rings, comes LEGO The Hobbit, inspired by the first two films in The Hobbit Trilogy: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and the ...

Then came the ambitious Peter Jackson trilogies of the early 2000s (“The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit”), which raised the stakes. Of the three major works of Tolkien’s literary career, two — ...

I don’t know exactly what awakened the desire within me. Maybe I heard someone utter the word ‘hobbit’ in passing, or maybe I ...

Karen Wynn Fonstad was a cartographer who exhaustively mapped J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” She used a grid system to index ...