The Battle of the Five Armies included an endearing plot thread involving Bilbo Baggins that was absent from the novel.

The Ohio Shakespeare Festival is staging a production of "The Hobbit" featuring a massive Smaug puppet. The 26-foot-long dragon puppet is operated by three puppeteers and was built using repurposed ...

Last season it was organ duets with hairless honchos from outer space. This season's Out of this world morality play, ladies and gentlemen, is Lord of the Rings, and tonight it opened at the Sax ...

A 19-time reader explained the struggle of good and evil for the first-timers. A 19-time reader explained the struggle of good and evil for the first-timers. A 19-time reader explained the struggle of ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

The book’s discovery would be a once-in-a-lifetime moment for any rare books specialist. While out on a routine appraisal of the contents of a home in Bristol, England, Caitlin Riley spotted an ...

When Tales of the Shire was first announced, I was among the cozy gamers absolutely losing their minds with excitement. The game puts a wholesome, Hobbit-centric spin on a game set in Middle Earth. In ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy sits comfortably above all modern fantasy with regards to influence and world-building. Countless stories have borrowed from, copied, or were inspired by ...

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy recounts the adventurous life of Bilbo Baggins, which he writes about to his nephew, Frodo. Based on Tolkien’s novel, The Hobbit, and appendices from The Lord of the ...

Professor J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, told through books like The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, is the foundation of the modern fantasy genre, especially regarding the idea ...

Two giant eagle sculptures inspired by “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” have loomed over visitors to Wellington Airport for more than a decade. Now, they will take their final flight and ...

The latest addition to Lego's collector-focused Lord of the Rings line takes us to the home of the Hobbits—but maybe it should've stayed in one home in particular. reading time 5 minutes After many ...