Orcs! Battles! Backstory! At nearly three hours, the first installment of Peter Jackson's new Tolkien trilogy has too much of almost everything. "All good tales deserve embellishment." It's a line ...

In creating the artwork for The Hobbit, Tolkien borrowed from a short story he had written for his son Michael, titled "Roverandom." Also included are conceptual sketches for the now-iconic dust ...

(L-r) IAN McKELLEN as Gandalf, Adam Brown as Ori, JOHN CALLEN as Oin (behind tree branch), Mark Hadlow as Dori, Jed Brophy as Nori, AIDAN TURNER as Kili, WILLIAM KIRCHER as Bifur, MARTIN FREEMAN as ...

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films were cinematic masterpieces that won both critical and commercial acclaim, so ...