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The Hobbit (1977): an animated movie retrospective (video format).
The Hobbit is a musical animated TV special from 1977 that was produced by Rankin/Bass, famed for their Christmas specials, and animated by…
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Andy Serkis reads The Hobbit (news).
Join actor Andy Serkis for a 12-hour armchair marathon reading of “The Hobbit”, in aid of two charities. I want to take you…
November 2019
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Darrylgorn Rising (LOTR-themed comedy video).
Stephen Colbert’s visits Peter Jackson’s top-secret Wellington studio, where Colbert convinces Jackson to direct a new trilogy focused on his character from The…
April 2014
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Last Hobbit movie to be called . . . The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies!
The final film in Peter Jackson’s trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, has now been titled The Hobbit: The Battle of…
December 2013
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The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Avid moviegoers are once again reacquainted with the imaginative scope of J.R.R. Tolkien’s festive wonderworld in writer-director Peter Jackson’s frenetic follow-up to ‘The…
January 2013
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (soundtrack review).
When reviewing any piece of work, I do my best to take it in isolation and not let related materials influence my judgement.…
December 2012
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The Hobbit cast get it on with their Lego Minifigs.
Call this shameless marketing for Lego Minifigs if you will… we’re just a corporate whore at heart, but let’s face it, if Lego…
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Dwarves now drinking at the Green Dragon Inn. Smaug not invited.
The Hobbiton Movie Set – where The Hobbit was filmed – has just opened The Green Dragon Inn, the ribbon cut by none…
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The Hobbit… we like big dragons and we cannot lie.
Smaug makes an appearance in the new trailer for The Hobbit. He’s a dragon, by the way. Likes: big piles of gold in…
November 2012
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The Hobbit… new fighting fit trailer.
And there’s yet another new trailer out for The Hobbit, this time featuring some mighty Hobbit (and dwarf) fighting action. See the swords…
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And the weather in Elvish is… Gandalf-created storms?
Boy, are they crazy about the new Hobbit film over in New Zealand. Okay, you have to give it to Peter Jackson, he…
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The Hobbit… here, son, ‘ave this blade.
A new trailer for the Hobbit where Gandalf arms his diminutive questing companion up with a sword… Sting is it? It’s interesting that…