The Battle of the Five Armies included an endearing plot thread involving Bilbo Baggins that was absent from the novel.

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New research shows that the Hobbits’ wisdom teeth were small – roughly similar in size to those of Neanderthals. This means that their brains should also be more or less Neanderthalic, yet for some ...

Last season it was organ duets with hairless honchos from outer space. This season's Out of this world morality play, ladies and gentlemen, is Lord of the Rings, and tonight it opened at the Sax ...

LITTLETON • After following the stone path to the storybook cottage, I step through the carved round door, as if walking into a fairy tale. A tree stands at the heart of the earthen playhouse, ...

He first made a national impact as the mill-owner John Thornton in the BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South. Audiences around the world know him as Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit ...

Any hobbit knows that adventures make one late for dinner. That is, unless the dinner itself is a hobbit-worthy adventure in Albemarle County featuring farm-fresh fare by local chefs, Virginia wines ...