The second installment of the trilogy stars Orlando Bloom as Legolas and Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug VIDEO
Wednesday, Jun 12, 2013 12:52 PM UTCAt this point, America's notorious prison gang is more devoted to the drug trade than it is to its racist ideology
Tuesday, Mar 19, 2013 5:58 PM UTCDirector Peter Jackson called a local actors' unionization effort a political ploy filled with "toxic nonsense"
Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 6:11 PM UTCAnd they have tiny wrist bones that distinguish them from Homo sapiens
Friday, Jan 11, 2013 10:03 PM UTCPeter Jackson's film was the biggest December opening ever VIDEO
Monday, Dec 17, 2012 2:29 PM UTCHollywood puts its big Hobbit foot down to quash a straight-to-Internet-and-DVD send-up of Middle-earth
Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 4:00 PM UTCPeter Jackson's "LOTR" prequel drifts far from Tolkien in a slow, self-indulgent and fake-looking opening chapter
Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 35Behold the onslaught of Hobbit action figures. Hobbit Legos. Hobbit meals. If only they did this to "Anna Karenina"
Saturday, Dec 8, 2012 11:00 PM UTCPeter Jackson's big gamble on "The Hobbit's" ultra-vivid, high-frame-rate 3-D could undermine his cinematic legacy
Thursday, Dec 6, 2012 6:38 PM UTC 62Warner Bros. has released six clips and 20 minutes of behind the scenes footage of the movie VIDEO
Tuesday, Dec 4, 2012 7:11 PM UTCBilbo boasts homely virtues like wit and wisdom. Bestowing him with irony is a betrayal to Tolkien VIDEO
Sunday, Dec 2, 2012 9:00 PM UTC 48Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson will appear on Stephen Colbert's show
Friday, Nov 30, 2012 4:33 PM UTCOn the surface, Tolkien's world appears chaste — until your Freudian eyes look down and see those big, hairy feet!
Saturday, Nov 17, 2012 11:00 PM UTC 15J.R.R. Tolkien's poem, first published in 1966, has been reissued this fall
Thursday, Nov 15, 2012 3:00 PM UTCA man pays homage to "The Hobbit" by converting his living room into Bag End VIDEO
Friday, Nov 9, 2012 5:03 PM UTCThe 20th century bard invented a magical world that succeeded in distilling the pure essence of Englishness
Sunday, Nov 4, 2012 11:00 PM UTC 36Rob Inglis' delightfully avuncular unabridged reading of Tolkien's classic is finally available in the U.S.
Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 2:53 PM UTCThe "Lord of the Rings" director seizes the opportunity to make a grandiose prequel trilogy. Not everyone approves
Tuesday, Jul 31, 2012 8:30 PM UTC 100Fantasy fiction might have racial problems, but they're just a reflection of America's broader battles
Sunday, Apr 1, 2012 1:00 PM UTC 260African-American writers are taking on a literary genre dominated by nostalgia for Medieval England
Wednesday, Nov 9, 2011 7:45 PM UTC 42Page 1 of 4 in J.R.R. Tolkien
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