The Balrog, trolls, and Dragons are just a few of the terrifying monsters that stalk the heroes of Middle-earth.

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Unlike most Dwarves, Thorin, Fíli and Kíli had short beards in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, and Richard Armitage came up with the reason.

I thought about this later, and it brought to mind a scene at the end of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic, The Hobbit, in which the dying Thorin Oakenshield says to Bilbo Baggins, “If more of us valued food ...

Originally from Huncoate, the 53-year-old is best known as Dwarf king Thorin Oakenshield in the Hobbit films. Although he certainly has the looks, the charm, and the smooth baritone voice to leave ...

Adapting a novel to film or television is a notoriously tricky business. Filmmakers and screenwriters have to juggle various impulses, deciding which characters to include and which to exclude.