"The
Hobbit has a breathless pace because Tolkien was writing it as a story for his children and for the children of the world.
"The
Hobbit" is the first major studio movie to play at 48 frames per second and is creating a worldwide buzz in the film industry.
A pub in Matamata, New Zealand, is being spruced up in time to host celebrations related to a grand
Hobbit tourism plan.
The video has been created in conjunction with the Academy Award-winning Weta Workshop (The Lord of the Rings films) and features appearances from Jackson,as well as the unforgettable character, Gollum, and descendants of J.R.R Tolkien, author of the timeless masterpiece The
Hobbit on which the trilogy is based.
Jackson says the decision to make three films was made possible because of the extended appendices in the Lord of the Rings, in which Tolkien adds details of the Middle Earth fantasy world in which the
Hobbit takes place.
The third film - "The
Hobbit: There and Back Again" - will open in movie theaters on July 18, 2014 - just seven months after the newly titled second film "The
Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" arrives on December 13, 2013.
Tolkien really did start with the word "
Hobbit." It became a kind of riddle that needed solving.
Humphreys said she was a huge fan of Jackson's Oscar-winning "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and, with a height of 1.5 meters (five foot), had hoped for a bit part in "The
Hobbit," a two-part prequel to the original movies.
And of course Tolkien's influence both on the dictionary itself and on the English language, just as the authors argue, is manifest in the fact that this first supplement is one on science fiction and fantasy, the latter of which he somewhat rescued from obscurity and relegation to a children's genre and the former of which, as evidenced by such works as the 'closed series' television program Babylon Five, derives from the very fantasy, mythology, and history out of which The
Hobbit and Lord of the Rings sprung.
The hominid, nicknamed "the
hobbit" after the little people in JRR Tolkein's Lord Of The Rings trilogy, was thought to be an entirely new species of human.
Anderson used the following selection criteria: each work must have been written before the publication of The
Hobbit in 1937; each writer must have been born at least five years before Tolkien (1892-1973).
The ring has been found by a
hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who then passes it on to his nephew Frodo for safekeeping.
Butterbur, an innkeeper in Tolkien's trilogy, speaks for many lovers of fantasy,
hobbit and human alike, when he expresses a deeply felt if often frustrated desire: "We want to be let alone." And yet the desire to be left alone, at least for the great majority of readers and viewers of contemporary science fiction and fantasy, is often inextricably combined with a contrary desire to arrange the future for the better, to direct the lives and welfare of others, if only generations yet to be born.
LIKE MOST READERS, I THINK OF THE POTTER AND
HOBBIT tales as entertaining and enchanting stories, not religious allegories.
Frodo (Elijah Wood), our wide-eyed hero, and his equally naive
hobbit colleagues continue their trek to Mordor where he has been mandated to dispose of his inherited evil ring.
