There are four books in Tolkien’s main Middle-earth saga: The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers, Return of the King). Several other ...

He was named after the character in J.R.R. Tolkien's famed book 'The Hobbit' who was the last of the dwarf kings. But a new investigation of Thorin's DNA suggests he belonged to a previously ...

Director Peter Jackson later tried to recreate the success of this trilogy with its prequel, The Hobbit, but it was nowhere ...

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may have lived as recently as 42,000 years ago. "Thorin", one of the last ...

Hobbiton is a fictional place in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" books. It's part of what the book calls The Shire, located in a fantasy world named Middle-earth.

the head dwarf in Peter Jackson’s trilogy “The Hobbit.” Now, in “The Boy in the Woods,” the 53-year-old actor plays a real-life hero: Jasko Rudnicki, a Polish farmer and Holocaust hero ...

Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game gets new edition headlined by The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim tie-ins.

In the books, the village sits near Hobbiton, in the Westfarthing of the Shire. The clip shows us a young hobbit catching fish, gathering mushrooms with a friend, visiting what looks like a ...

A shop keeper in a cancer Research UK superstore stumbled across a first edition of The Hobbit which has now sold for over £10,000. The rare book, illustrated in black and white by Tolkien ...

The Herrick District Library North Branch is collaborating with Ottawa County Parks to bring the Hobbit’s journey to life along Riley Trails. Visit Riley Trails Sept. 7-21 and follow the signs ...