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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In The Hobbit trilogy, Orc war-chief Azog the Defiler's (Manu Bennett) plan was to wipe out the male bloodline of Durin by killing Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) and his nephews Fili (Dean ...

No action/fantasy film is complete without a good villain, and Desolation delivers on all fronts. Jackson has created in Smaug a lifelike threat, breathing new life into a rather cartoonish character ...

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 ...

When people complain about the nearly three-hour length of the first installment of “The Hobbit” film trilogy because the source book is a slim 300 pages, they’re forgetting that much of the story isn ...