In general, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was a much smaller-scale story than its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, but there are still aspects of it that are curious, including the Five Armies. Part of ...
Fighting a dragon would have been a daunting task even for an entire army of Dwarves, but Thorin II Oakenshield did not have that luxury when he set out to reclaim the kingdom of Erebor from Smaug in ...
ILLUSTRATION BY HEATHER JONES FOR TIME; EVERETT (3); GOLLUM: WARNER BROS. At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize ...