Sarah Shippobotham, associate professor and head of the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program, was a dialect coach in New Zealand on the set of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, based on the ...

“You are going to get some serious Dwarvish disrespect of the elves at Rivendell,” director Peter Jackson told Empire. “You are going to get more of Hobbiton,” said producer/co-writer Philippa Boyens.

Dwarves. Not the Firstborn, or the Secondborn of Illuvatar, but rather the red-headed stepchildren of Middle-earth. This is a race that, admittedly, I haven't spent too much time thinking about in the ...

There is an early moment in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that captures the evocative poetry of Tolkien’s songs — something that The Lord of the Rings films, for all their achievements, never did.

New Zealand, the backdrop of sweeping cinematic scenes from “The Lord of the Rings” and the upcoming trilogy “The Hobbit,” is issuing a series of Hobbit coins. The coins are a sort of genius marketing ...

Speaking of axes, there s a whole load of other interesting details about them in the Hobbit trilogy. You will obviously remember the scene in which the dwarves are captured by Legolas and his gang of ...