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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To be honest, this isn't a desperately good franchise for villains. Saruman is great, but the other named villains are largely forgettable, while main villain Sauron is a disembodied eye for most of ...

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 ...