After seeing "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" at one of the celebrated midnight showings earlier this month, I experienced the following: joy, frustration, bewilderment and excitement. In the last ...

HE’S chopped the head off a horse in Game Of Thrones and killed dwarfs in The Hobbit. At 2.13m, Conan Stevens is not just your regular Aussie actor. You would not say that Aussie actor and stuntman ...

In general, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was a much smaller-scale story than its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, but there are still aspects of it that are curious, including the Five Armies. Part of ...

There is an early moment in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that captures the evocative poetry of J.R.R. Tolkien’s songs — something that The Lord of the Rings films, for all their achievements, ...

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.

The son of Azog will undoubtedly meet his demise in the film. In the novel, Bolg essentially plays the Azog role, at least in terms of the Battle of the Five Armies, in that he's the one who led his ...

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 ...

In Tolkien's original story, Azog was not the main antagonist. In fact he didn't even make an appearance. In the book, the dwarves manage to stir up the goblins of Misty Mountains, after they slay the ...

Amazon Prime Video’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” will harken back to Peter Jackson’s original trilogy by relying predominantly on practical effects and prosthetics in bringing the Orcs ...