Vintage recordings of JRR Tolkien's novel The Hobbit have been unearthed on a railway line. The cassettes featuring a BBC radio drama were found buried at the base of an overhead line mast on the Tyne ...

One area where The Hobbit films did not disappoint is the cast. Martin Freeman, one of the stars of the original version of The Office, was well-chosen to play a young Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit at the ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1937, English author J.R.R. Tolkien penned a children’s book called “The Hobbit,” or “There and Back Again,” which ignited what ...

Hunched over a picnic table in a limestone cave, the Indonesian researcher gingerly fingers the bones of a giant rat for clues to the origins of a tiny human. This world turned upside down may once ...

Editor's Note, December 10, 2013: With the second chapter of The Hobbit trilogy opening in theaters soon, and the third and final film to be released next winter, refresh your memory about what ...

Spoilers for Peter Jackson's rendition of 'The Hobbit' follow. Well we've come at last to the mountain, to the titular battle of the five armies, and to the end of the road both for Bilbo and his ...

At first glance, Peter Jackson's trilogy of epic films based on "The Hobbit," a slender children's book, might appear to leave its source behind in order to make more capital out of the "Lord of the ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. To say Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Hobbit ...

Peter Jackson collaborator Philippa Boyens says the film would have had more of a “fairy-tale” element and a different visual aesthetic. By THR Staff Even if Tolkien fans end up adoring Peter ...

It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien. The author is widely credited with giving birth to the modern ...