Alice is a Lord of the Rings enthusiast who grew up with Tolkien's tales. She loves all kinds of writing, from articles to stories to her debut novel, which she is seeking literary representation for.

The final offender in Jackson's Hobbit films is so inane, unnecessary and annoying that the other four entries above combined don't even come close to the irritance that is the character of Alfrid.

There are a lot of ugly characters in the latest and last of Peter Jackson's over-blown adaptation of The Hobbit, but one of the most repellent isn't an orc or a goblin, he's a man. At the heart of ...

Destined to become known as the Jar Jar Binks of the Middle-Earth series, Alfrid Lickspittle (Ryan Gage) is only mentioned in passing in Tolkein's novel and never named, but Jackson somehow felt the ...