Poor Thorin Oakenshield — the would-be King under the mountain just can’t get a break. In The Hobbit, Azog the Defiler kills his Granddad, then he steals the dwarf’s favorite shield… and he’s not done ...

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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.

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...

Both in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit novel and in Peter Jackson's trilogy of film adaptations, Thorin II Oakenshield was obsessed with the treasure of Erebor, particularly the Arkenstone. This was ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic ...