A heavyset man of gross demeanor lurches out of an inn, gnawing a meat bone, and a chuckle of surprise runs through the audience. Peter Jackson, the directorial lord of The Lord of the Rings, the man ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Warner Bros. has released a nifty new banner ...

Director Peter Jackson must do “spectacular” in his sleep. Even with the thinnest of premises – this second Hobbit movie is reportedly based on a mere five chapters of that children’s book – Jackson ...

While An Unexpected Journey had plenty of bucolic charm, it did, for a Middle-earth film, feel oddly inconsequential. The Desolation Of Smaug remedies that. Moody, urgent and, for want of a better ...

The second installment of the movie version of “The Hobbit” series, “The Desolation of Smaug,” opens this weekend, and 95 percent of the known world will see it regardless of what any critic says. So ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has released two new promo images. The first image - taken from a HarperCollins book jacket - shows Martin Freeman as Bilbo, reflected in a close-up of the dragon ...

“You’re a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I’m quite fond of you. But you are really just a little fellow, in a wide world after all.” What works in Desolation’s favor is that it’s essentially all ...

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.

There was a lot of hate for The Hobbit movies on their release and to this day, but I will always love many things about them. From some immaculate casting down to impressive sequences, the movies had ...